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When you hear the words “CO2 emission” what do you think of? Fossil fuel combustion? Gasoline-powered vehicles? Manufacturing materials? Deforestation? Well, what about rice paddies? The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has estimated that rice paddies emit a staggering 10%-12% of global methane emissions (60 million metric tons). These paddies also emit Nitrous Oxide.

In 1957, scientists declared the River Thames biologically dead. The water was so polluted from decades of industrial waste and untreated sewage that not a single fish could survive in it. The river that had flowed through the heart of one of the world's greatest cities for thousands of years had, in the span of a century, been killed.

AI is everywhere, from writing our emails to powering our searches. I asked five of the most popular AI models three questions about the future of earth. Some answers were beautiful. Some were clinical. And some . . . were terrifying.

Earth is changing like never before. And some say the solution is to just flee to Mars. But what about the 8 billion people we leave behind? In this midst of the billionaire space race, the most important mission isn't finding somewhere else to go. It's protecting the planet we already have.

04/27/2026 For millennia, human survival was tethered to what we could burn. But in 1932, we found a new solution. Nuclear energy. This new Studio Amp. video dives into the power, problems, economics, and future of this nearly perfect energy source.

04/24/2026 British Petroleum's board faced a major backlash at its first shareholder meeting under new leadership, as shareholders staged three major blows against the oil giant. Over 50% of shareholders at the company's annual general meeting voted (successfully) to block a proposal to scrap existing climate reporting commitments. The defiance continued as shareholders also defeated a plan to move future meetings to an online-only format. This move was viewed as an attempt t

04/11/2026 AI is everywhere. It’s in your pocket, your inbox, and now, your news feed. Along the way, you’ve probably heard two conflicting stories. One that AI is a climate disaster. And a second that that first story is a lie. Lately, a new narrative has emerged. Claims that AI is actually green, water-efficient, and powered by a clean grid. I wanted to see if these claims actually held up. What I found... is frightening. We’ve been told that AI is the future. But the futu

04/09/2026 Government has approved the United Kingdom's largest power-producing solar farm to date. The site will also be home to a battery storage facility. However, the project, which will be around 4,000 acres, is getting immense pushback from the local community. The Springwell solar farm will be located between Lincoln and Sleaford, and is projected to start producing electricity in 2029. The government vows that the project bring energy prices down, with the farm projec

One of the most pressing climate issues we are facing is the vast amounts of energy used by data centers. This new technology claims to have a solution.

This new mini documentary from Amp Productions explores the rise, revolution, fall, and legacy of company that is face of electric vehicles: Tesla.

REVISITING A CLASSIC Exploring how exploring our universe is harming our planet. As rocket launches become more and more frequent every year, we have to ask: how much does this industry actually contribute to the climate crisis? Back in 2022, I set out to find the answer to this question. And now, we are revisiting it. This piece is part of our Throwback Series, where we revisit early CNM articles and rebuild them with new reporting, new context, and a clearer understanding o

From Studio Amp. comes a short documentary regarding the end of snow, and with it, the ski industry.

Amp Productions presents this short film uncovering Exxon's incredibly accurate climate predictions from before that was even a thing. All trademarks appear under fair use for educational and journalistic purposes. Trademarks referenced in this video: The New York Times, BBC, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Reuters. Stock Footage & Images: Pexels, Unsplash. This video uses news headlines, stock footage, and public-domain imagery for purposes of commentary, analysis, and e

In 2023 a British tech company, SatVu built a satellite, called Hotsat-1, that measures heat radiating off buildings to determine whether they are energy efficient. We wrote about that in 06.23, and now we're revisiting it. CLIMATE NEWS MEDIA 53.006.1 This piece is part of our Throwback Series, where we revisit early CNM articles and rebuild them with new reporting, new context, and a clearer understanding of the climate story. Hotsat-1 was la

A Note The very first version of this article — written sometime in the early days of CNM — vanished into the digital void. A broken link, a corrupted draft, a CMS glitch… who knows. All that remains is the memory that it existed. So here it is again, rebuilt from scratch. A second chance for a story that deserves one. When talking about the future of clean energy, we picture solar farms, wind turbines, and battery packs the size of shipping containers. Almost nobody pictur

CLIMATE NEWS MEDIA 53.002.1 There’s a moment when a problem stops being abstract and becomes personal. For a long time, climate change lived in that abstract space — charts, predictions, warnings, all pointing to a future that felt far away. But now its here. It’s in the smoke we breathe, the snow that never falls, the crops that don’t grow anymore. But we can still get it right.

In this article, I am looking past the headlines of crisis to find the architecture of success. I am tracking three massive shifts: the historic economic victory of solar over coal, the tactical brilliance of local-led conservation like Cool Earth , and the conservation and resilience shown in the recent bounce back of near-extinction species. The Energy Signal: Solar Claims the Crown This year marks a definitive "point of no return" in the global energy markets. Solar has o

Climate News 12.25 The EPA has long been a trusted source for climate change information. Much of that information is now gone. Early in December of 2025, at least 80 EPA web pages about climate change were deleted from the website. Some material was replaced with false information that climate change is caused by Earth's orbit and "variations in solar activity" . Many signs and effects of climate change were also deleted, from r

COP30 in Brazil was a disaster. The largest climate change summit of the year, COP30 literally caught on fire, a perfect metaphor for the rest of the conference. © 2025 Climate News Media