Trofim Lysenko

Enough With The Doomscrolling

Line graph showing wind and solar surpass fossil fuels in electricity generation in Germany in 2025. Fossil fuels decline while wind and solar rise. Nuclear and other renewables remain lower. Source: CarbonBrief.

Environmental Progress Does Exist – And So Does Good News

So much is awful nowadays, that we need to share good news at Legal Planet, and there actually is some.   For the first time ever, German solar and wind electricity production outpaced that of fossil fuels. In 1987, forest cover in Costa Rica, one of the famously most biodiverse nations on the face of …

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Wait — WHAT??

The seal for NOAA which is white, light blue, and dark blue with the silhouette of a flying bird in the center. Around the seal it reads, "National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration. U.S. Department of Commerce."

Science funding has been spared the worst cuts for now, but don’t believe the hype — and know that the White House has more tricks up its sleeve.

The topline headlines look great: CNN: Trump wants to slash funding for federal climate and weather research. Congress is about to tell him ‘No’ Reuters: US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts NBC: Congress passes bill to fund U.S. science agencies, rebuffing Trump’s requested cuts And there …

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