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The hidden water cost of green hydrogen

Energy that is hailed as clean demands a vital resource that is missing: water. The world applauds green hydrogen as the clean energy that will save the planet. It is sold as the invisible gold of the twenty-first century. But…

Zero Waste Beats Incineration in Cutting Climate Pollution

Global Study Proves Incinerators Worsen Climate Impacts while Communities Push for Just Solutions Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  – 04 September 2025 — From Asia to Latin America to Africa, communities are at the frontlines of both climate impacts and the fight against false solutions…

Clean Solar Outshines Filthy Oil

“We can have a world that runs on a resource that’s available to everyone everywhere.” (Bill McKibben) There’s a renaissance of nature powering the world, and it’s happening throughout the planet hidden from public view because it’s everywhere all at…

The Second Flood: Water, Disease, and a Deluge of Fear

The recent floods in Punjab, Pakistan, present a formidable force of nature. The water, flowing from the northern highlands down to the southern plains, moves with an inexorable gravity. Its immense volume, destructive force, and dense, debris-filled current possess the…

Antarctica on Alert!

Over the past year, several studies about highly dangerous signals of Antarctica on the edge of major abrupt change have appeared in scholarly publications. These studies in premier publications expose rapid changes, e.g. (1) discovery of the western Antarctic Peninsula…

A Map of Our Sins, Written in Water

A fine, misty rain pattered against the windowpane, a soft, relentless rhythm that did nothing to soothe the gloom settling in my chest. Each distant rumble of thunder felt like an echo of the dread tightening in my stomach. My…

The Unyielding Logic of Water: How Human Intervention Fuels a Crisis?

Water is governed by a fundamental and unyielding principle: it flows downward. From its origins in the melting ice of glaciers, it follows the relentless pull of gravity, carving its way through continents until it merges with the sea. This…

Global Floods Beckon Noah

Devastating widespread flooding and flash floods are becoming normal. Try spinning a globe and stop at any continent, other than Antarctica, blindfolded, point a finger, spot a flood. There’s nothing fake about the global warming leviathan absorbing more moisture in…

In the West Bank, water is weaponized

Israelis settlers in the West Bank, consume up to 10 times more water than Palestinians. This isn’t simply about scarcity, it’s about control. And for Palestinian farming families, it means every day is a struggle to hold onto their land, their crops, and their…

Green hydrogen and the new world order. The energy that will define wars and alliances

There will be no power without energy, nor energy without hydrogen — and in the race to control it, geopolitics will once again be stained with oil, but this time it will be green. Hydrogen as the new key to…

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