Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
That's tens of thousands of authors whose submissions can be desk-rejected from here on out, leaving some more room for the rest of us.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New report: wind and solar are driving down wholesale electricity prices across Europe.
On average, prices were ~24% lower in 2023–2025 than if gas had set the price at all times.
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Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe. https://cnn.it/3Ovxzwk
Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women
Priceless post from the official White House social media
Trump's own Special Military Operation is now in day 54, and he has moved from demanding Iran's unconditional surrender on day 7 to asking them to please negotiate on day 54.
Russia is a nuclear threat to the whole world.
‼️Russia has repeatedly launched missiles and drones over the Chornobyl NPP and the Khmelnytskyi NPP, raising the risk of a major accident, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said.
Coordinated disinformation efforts, harassment campaigns, strategic lawsuits, and personal assaults now accompany research in politically contentious fields.
Worth reading if you care about science!
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...
In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years.
Renewables: 33.8%
Coal: 33.0%
Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
NEW: On almost half of the EU’s busiest international air routes, booking the same journey by train is difficult or impossible.
Europe’s rail renaissance will never reach its full potential until booking a train ticket is as easy as booking a plane.
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Passengers trying to book low-carbon international train trips are often faced with headaches due to complicated booking systems.
The Commission’s Single Ticketing Package is our chance to fix this. It’s time to drag the rail ticketing system out of the stone age.
Read the report ➡️ bit.ly/4vrDh2V
Many govts hope capturing carbon from power plants burning wood will cause "negative emissions." New Nature Sust. paper today finds this likely increases emissions for decades, generates no negative emissions within 150 years, and increase electricity costs ~3.5-fold.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Climate deniers and delayers are going to start saying "sorry but we can't start reducing our emissions, what about the US"
It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.
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First power at Sofia wind farm!
That's now three of the four massive offshore wind farms at Dogger Bank generating electricity.
Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables
Another indication of our climate-changed future.
#climate
phys.org/news/2026-04...
NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.
www.404media.co/thomson-reut...
"My childhood conception of the Nakba was... Palestine was stolen and turned into a state for the Jews."
Palestinian-American scholar Tareq Baconi discusses how the Nakba led to his family’s expulsion from Palestine.
Watch this episode of 'Beyond Israelism' here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU0h...
New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/17/n...
#nuclear #kärnkraft #svpol #SMR #solar #wind #batteries #SLCOE #LCOE
A nice reminder from Ember, using British data. Wind and solar are complementary. Our system works best when you have both, each calling on their own strengths in terms of generation patterns.
If either struggles to grow like it should, we end up with a more expensive, slower fossil phase-out
If the price of gas is so important that it makes constant news, maybe we need to reconsider how we designed our society and cities. Maybe, just maybe, there's something wrong with a system that's so reliant on this one thing
Blå-brun kraftsocialism
Regeringens besked: 183 miljarder till nytt lager för kärnavfall
www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
#nuclear #subsidies #kärnkraft #subventioner #SMR #svpol #Moderaterna Niklas Wykman #whiteelephant
"Replacing oil imports for road transport with EVs could save importers over $600 billion a year – the single largest lever any country has to cut its import bill."
