Finnish government wants to allow opening a #mine in the #Natura2000 protected #Viiankiaapa #wetland. If they succeed in dismantling the #protection, that would set a deadly precedent for #EU #nature laws. After that, nothing is safe... #HandsOffNature euobserver.com/236357/finlan…

You can’t recycle wind turbines. If you’ve ever said this, or believed someone that’s said it, look away now. Do not continue reading if you know it’s going to trigger you. It is one of the favourite arguments against renewable energy, and it has just taken a hit. Scotland’s first commercial wind farm has been decommissioned after operating since 1995. So what happened to all that supposedly “unrecyclable” green technology? 79.5% of it was recycled. 20.4% was reused and repurposed for future spare parts. Less than 0.1% went to landfill. That’s 99.9% recycled or reused. “But the blades! What about the blades?!” Those were processed into a new polymer material that can be used as an alternative to timber, concrete and virgin plastics in construction. It gets worse for the weird anti-renewables crowd… The original wind farm needed 26 turbines. The replacement? Just 14 modern turbines, producing around FIVE TIMES the generating capacity of the original site. Enough electricity equivalent to the annual needs of around 57,000 homes. Of course, this doesn’t mean wind turbines have zero environmental impact. Nothing does. But the next time somebody tells you we’ll have millions of wind turbine blades dumped in landfill while insisting we should continue extracting, transporting and burning fossil fuels forever… Send them this post.

Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics. Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times. theguardian.com/world/2026/s…

Albert Einstein: "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing,". Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Damn Ukraine! 😂

Japanese utility halts #nuclear reactor restart after data manipulation scandal. #Japan utility has withdrawn applications to restart a nuclear power plant after an independent committee found that pressure from senior management led workers to manipulate earthquake data submitted to the regulator. ft.com/content/e1383b40-554a…

Criminal. theguardian.com/environment/…

This is insane. The so-called land of the free.

The math isn't mathing.  The world spends more than three times as much on fossil fuel subsidies as it would cost to transition to clean economies for a safe climate and air.  The solutions are ready and the money is there. What’s needed now is action at scale.  Here’s how: bit.ly/3UFnsYq #CleanAirDay

Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.   Action now can still limit the magnitude and duration of the peak and preserve the possibility of returning to or below 1.5°C through an ‘overshoot, peak, and decline’ pathway   Explore more: unep.org/news-and-stories/pr…

My Letter in The Scotsman: 'In 2025, wind and solar became the bedrock of European energy self-reliance, with power generation from #renewables in Europe reaching a new record of 384.9 TWh. Meanwhile, Norway has just said no to #nuclear power, and NATO now backs renewables as the solution to energy security. In 2025 renewables made up 85.6% of all new global power capacity additions. Renewables are now 53% cheaper than nuclear for total system costs and, with a doubling cost over-run, nuclear remains the most expensive power source. With construction of just one station taking 20 years plus, nuclear projects in Europe run years behind schedule and vastly over budget. Nuclear power construction has an average time over-run of 64%. The fact is, each year nuclear adds only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days. For Scotland, the direction of travel is clear. The challenge now is not just generation, but how quickly grids, batteries and flexibility can be deployed.' #Scotland scotsman.com/news/opinion/le…

Show this clip to anyone who says Iran is run by religious lunatics.

Why are climate scientists not surprised about mountains being destabilized by glacier melt and permafrost thaw? Because they have long predicted that as a result of #globalheating. theguardian.com/world/2026/a…

Solar overtakes coal as China's largest source of installed power capacity reuters.com/business/energy/…

Our new book, Israel’s Lobby, details how Israeli politicians, their lobby in the US and the donors who underwrite these influence campaigns EXPLICITLY talk about shaping US policy to benefit Israel. Netanyahu’s statement is the norm. Not the exception. simonandschuster.com/books/I…

If you or I say the Israeli prime minister ‘influences’ American politicians to get them to think his way and fight his wars, it’s antisemitic. But if the Israeli prime minister says it…

These are not wildfires in Algeria, Croatia, Canada, or Spain… this is what Israel is doing, burning village after village in southern Lebanon, while the world remains silent! Israel has destroyed, burned, and occupied 10 additional villages in southern Lebanon despite signing a US-sponsored framework agreement. More than 16,000 hectares have been entirely burned, including over 120 hectares of centuries-old olive groves to ashes in southern Lebanon, estimated to be 300-1000 years old. These are war crimes under international law: Wanton devastation not justified by military necessity; also an act of genocide according to Article Il of the UN Genocide Convention. Yet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights does not view them as war crimes—just as he saw no genocide in Gaza!

Tästä "minä teen vain työtäni" sitaatista tulee mieleen Hannah Arendtin kuuluisa lause "pahan arkipäiväisyydestä". Siinä vaiheessa kun asevoimien komentaja "tehdessään työtään" ummistaa silmänsä kansanmurhan edessä ollaan pahasti kaltevalla pinnalla. yle.fi/a/74-20243557?utm_sou…

How much of a threat do heat waves pose to nuclear plants? Hot water and low river levels have hampered nuclear power in Europe this summer, forcing a reckoning over plant preparedness. Europe’s increasingly hot summers come with a worrying trend. The air conditioning that the continent long eschewed as an American indulgence is becoming a necessity, and some of the nuclear reactors needed to run those cooling units are tapping out right as thermometers spike. This summer was especially bad: The series of extreme heat waves that roasted Europe, killing thousands and fueling historic wildfires, also severely impacted the rivers that provide water to cool thermal power plants such as nuclear stations. In France and Switzerland, nuclear plants went offline as river temperatures rose, to prevent the discharge of warm water into sensitive aquatic ecosystems. In Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria, nuclear plants built along the Danube River either shut down or reduced output as drought dropped the water levels below intake pumps. Critics of nuclear power have seized on the moment to challenge whether nuclear energy is as reliable and efficient as its supporters claim. “Strange that anyone would support new nuclear, which depends on cooling, in the face of an ongoing superlinear global temperature rise,” Mark Z. Jacobson, a Stanford University professor who has long advocated for replacing atomic energy with renewables such as wind, solar, and hydropower, wrote in a post on X after France took 6.3 gigawatts of nuclear plants offline amid the heat wave.

Hallitus on väittänyt Suomen ”tekevän kaikkensa” Gazan kansanmurhan lopettamiseksi, mutta samaan aikaan se on kaikessa hiljaisuudessa tiivistänyt puolustusyhteistyötä. Vasemmisto tulee jättämään aiheesta kirjallisen kysymyksen. yle.fi/a/74-20242803