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British national newspapers devoted more than triple the space to advertising polluting industries such as oil, airlines, and sports utility vehicles than they did to covering last year’s United Nations climate talks, according to a new study. Total high-carbon advertising — including for fossil fuel companies, cruises, and banks financing oil and gas – amounted to […]

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This story has been published in partnership with Intercept Brasil. Oil giant Shell tapped into Brazil’s love of the soap opera to sell more fossil fuels, hiring famous actors to appear in adverts designed to lure customers to its petrol stations by associating the company with clean energy. The “Caminhos do Amanhã” (“Paths of Tomorrow”) campaign originally featured Sophia Abrahão […]

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Lord David Frost has been announced as the new director-general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the influential anti-government lobby group. The IEA’s press release hailed the former Brexit negotiator and Conservative minister for his “clarity of thought, strategic leadership, and ability to deliver institutional change”. The statement did not mention Lord Frost’s role as […]

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As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its energy-guzzling AI tools to Brazilian oil and gas companies, DeSmog can reveal. During the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Rio de Janeiro last week, a […]

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The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the anti-state pressure group, must implement reforms to be more transparent and less politically biased, according to the charities regulator. The Charity Commission launched an investigation into the IEA in May, based on “perceptions of potential political bias, perceptions of a potential lack of transparency around funding, and perceptions that […]

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By the mid-1950s, the average American had roughly five times more discretionary dollars in their pocket than they’d had a decade earlier. Whilst this boosted the sales of goods, it also created a challenge: Durable products like cars and cookers lasted too long. So to keep revenues growing companies needed to come up with other […]

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YouTube and TikTok amplified disinformation that “sowed confusion” during the worst flood in Spain’s history, according to a new report. A year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours on Valencia in October 2024, killing 237 and causing widespread destruction to buildings and infrastructure, making it Europe’s most catastrophic flooding event since 1967. False […]

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