Ranked: EU nations with cleanest energy mix to save 58% more on bills Consumers in five EU countries will save up to €8.5 billion on their energy bills this year, compared to those with the dirtiest energy mix.

People living in the EU countries with the cleanest energy - Denmark, Finland, France, Sweden and Slovakia - will pay less than half as much this year as those with the dirtiest, concludes a new report. They’ll save a total of €8.5 billion. www.euronews.com/2026/04/22/f...

Ed Miliband: The era of clean energy security Our actions must now be faster, deeper and more wide-ranging if we are to protect our security. We have not a moment to waste

The biggest change since the Industrial Revolution? The age of fossil fuel security is over, says @ed-miliband.bsky.social, and the “only route” to financial, energy - and national - security is through clean sources.

www.newstatesman.com/speech/2026/...

Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025 Output from solar farms rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell, research from thinktank reveals

Solar energy soared by 1000% over the last decade, reports the excellent @fionaharvey.bsky.social. And last year clean energy overtook the growth in electricity demand for the first time.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power A new metric for assessing total system costs puts a least-cost mix of offshore wind and solar at about €46 ($54.20)/MWh in a future climate-neutral energy system for Denmark. Researchers tell <b>pv ...

Renewables cost less than half as much as nuclear power, a new peer-reviewed study concludes.
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/17/n...

The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

More costs of the Iran war. food inflation is set to more than treble,,and 45 million more people are due to be pushed into hunger.
www.ft.com/content/3634...

Great Britain households to be urged to use more power this summer as renewables soar Incentives to absorb surplus wind and solar energy could help balance the grid and lower bills

Good news. Booming solar and wind energy will enable Britain to escape gas shortages caused by the Iran War this summer, reports the authoritative Jillian Ambrose. So much is being produced that people are being urged to up consumption so as to use it
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big Tech Is Rushing Into Nuclear Energy, and Bypassing Safety Oversight | OilPrice.com Nuclear startups backed by Big Tech are declining to join the INPO, the industry's main safety watchdog, as Trump moves to fast-track U.S. nuclear expansion.

With Trump’s encouragement, the nuclear industry is increasingly evading regulation, causing “serious public safety concerns”.
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March heat in the U.S. was the largest temperature anomaly ever recorded March 2026 shattered U.S. heat records with extreme warmth and dryness, as a powerful El Niño threatens to push global temperatures.

More than 19,800 heat records were broken in the US in March alone. Yet the country remains in denial, as do far too many of the rest of us. When are we going to wake up to the climate emergency?
www.earth.com/news/march-h...

UK’s largest housebuilder to buy less land in blow to Labour’s homes target Barratt Redrow blames effects of Iran war and expected impact on mortgages and costs for further reduction

Despite emasculating #nature protection and democratic controls in order to please housebuilders, the government is slipping further and further behind its #housing target.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

One of Earth’s major carbon sinks may be beginning to release carbon that has been stored for thousands of years, and signs of this are already appearing in two dark lakes in the Congo Scientists found signs that ancient carbon is leaking from Congo peatlands through two dark lakes

As if what is happening to the Amazon was not bad enough, now the Congo -the world’s second largest rainforest - is starting to emit carbon dioxide, rather than absorb it. www.ecoticias.com/en/one-of-ea...

What scientists just found in the abyss could upend deep-sea mining forever - Futura-Sciences The world’s metal hunger sparks a deep dive The global demand for critical metals keeps rising, and with it, the temptation for countries to dig deep—literally—below the ocean floor. In this context, ...

#Seabed #mining will devastate unexpectedly rich #biodiversity newly discovered two and a half miles beneath the #ocean surface, an official investigation finds. will that stop it? What do you think?

www.futura-sciences.com/en/what-scie...

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

Why are homes left empty in the UK and how can we fill them up? Empty homes in the UK are ‘a sign of what is wrong with the housing crisis’, campaigners say. Here's what can be done about them.

Ministers are sacrificing vast areas of the #greenbelt in their drive to build 1.5 million homes. Half that many already exist, but stand empty. And #brownfield land could take another 1.4 million. of course, to big housebuilders make more in the Green Belt……..

www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Finally, water firms in sewage scandal hit by record 96 criminal investigations The companies breached their environmental permits over 4,400 times in 2025

Finally water companies are being prosecuted at record levels for pollution. But even big fines have not deterred. I fear that not much will change until water bosses start being sent toto jail. inews.co.uk/news/water-f...

So much for all that punditry, only weeks ago, saying that sales of electric cars would fall and that governments should stop trying to phase out petrol and diesel ones! Never seemed very soundly based, and looks very outdated now as sales boom.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Europeans want more renewables, even if it increases energy bills Public enthusiasm for clean energy comes as the Iran war exposes Europe’s vulnerability to global oil and gas markets.

Huge poll explodes the growing contention that #netzero should be dropped as unpopular. Most Europeans want #renewables expanded even if they cost more (which they don’t). Few would go for fossil fuels even if they were cheaper which they aren’t).
www.politico.eu/article/poll...

Irish bog plant revives ancient remedy as a new weapon vs superbugs Long before we had modern antibiotics to rely on, people often turned to traditional medicines from plants to treat infections.

Good news. An ancient remedy may work against the modern scourge of antibiotic resistance. Just the latest example of how biodiversity can come to our rescue if we conserve it.
phys.org/news/2026-04...

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

Trump scores an own goal. He has long sought to restrict renewable technologies.But sales of solar panels, heat pumps and electric cars have almost doubled as a result of his Iran war.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Everyday exposure to pesticides causes cancer, a huge study of 150,000 cases shows.
scitechdaily.com/hidden-dange...

climate change threatens a million species with extinction, as they cannot evolve fast enough to keep up with the effects of global heating.
apnews.com/article/clim...

This is an exceptional piece from @iandunt.bsky.social - really gets to the heart of why Trump is so terrifying. No one knows for sure where his madness will lead, but scenarios that were once unthinkably remote are now distressingly plausible.
iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

Good news. If tropical forests are protected, they recover quickly. This huge study by 30 universities and institutions shows almost all biodiversity returning within a generation.

phys.org/news/2026-04...

Britain will freeze as the world warms up further when this catastrophic climate tipping point arrives. Not a question of ‘if’, it increasingly seems, unless we quickly change course. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

The evidence keeps mounting that this catastrophic climate tipping point is approaching. Without this warming current, Britain will have a climate similar to Labrador’s. www.newscientist.com/article/2522...

One huge threat to humanity is greatly increased by another. Climate change “creates the ideal conditions” for the growth of antibiotic resistance,
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Chart of relative energy costs since 2010 shows a steady decline in wind and solar vs wild oscillations in the price of oil due to geopolitical events like the current war in Iran.

An economist friend passes along this graph of energy costs. He says, "Given this history, it is more than a little ironic that renewable energy is derided by fossil-fuel proponents as 'unreliable.'”

A massive arctic thaw is unleashing carbon frozen for thousands of years A sweeping new study reveals that as Arctic permafrost thaws, it is dramatically reshaping rivers and releasing vast amounts of ancient carbon that had been locked away for thousands of years. By anal...

Alarming news about one of the world’s most ominous climate feedbacks, the cascade of effects of increasingly melting permafrost.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

New North Sea drilling would barely reduce UK gas imports at all, data shows Exclusive: research finds Jackdaw field would provide only about 2% of current demand, and Rosebank only 1%

Drilling new North Sea fields will not reduce energy prices, create durable jobs, significantly increase tax revenues, or increase energy security. An important article by @fionaharvey.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More drilling in North Sea ‘not the answer’ for UK energy security, say former military leaders Government told to focus on transition to mix of wind, solar, tidal and nuclear energy

Security experts explode the much-touted myth that increasing drilling brings energy security. on the contrary, they say, the answer lies in expanding renewables.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘God squad’ waives endangered species law to allow US drilling in Gulf of Mexico Critics say exemption for fossil fuels exploits White House’s ‘self-made gas crisis’, and could doom the rare Rice’s whale

Surely some mistake! Trump says it is offshore wind farms that kill whales….
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...