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New “Memory Crystals” Could Solve One of Climate’s Biggest Problems: Data
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.
Forest Olson
21 hours ago


Amp Presents: Tesla Changed the World. Now It's Falling Behind.
This new mini documentary from Amp Productions explores the rise, revolution, fall, and legacy of company that is face of electric vehicles: Tesla.
Amp Productions
7 days ago


The Effects of Rockets, Revisited
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
Forest Olson
Mar 5


Amp Productions Presents: The End of Powder? | How Climate Change is Destroying the Ski Industry
From Climate News Media and Amp Productions comes a short documentary regarding the end of snow, and with it, the ski industry.
Forest Olson
Feb 24


The 99% Accurate Warning Exxon Hid For Decades
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
Amp Productions
Jan 22


Hotsat, Revisited
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
Forest Olson
Jan 7


A Battery of Sand, Not Lithium
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
Forest Olson
Jan 5


Climate Action in 2026: What Does 'Getting it Right' Look Like?
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.
Forest Olson
Jan 2


The Best of Climate Change in 2025
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
Forest Olson
Dec 29, 2025


12.25: Trump Administration Deletes EPA Climate Info
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
Forest Olson
Dec 14, 2025


COP30 Literally Caught Fire (And That Wasn't Even the Worst Part)
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
Climate News Media
Dec 2, 2025


A Brief Note On Conservation
One of the most powerful tools we have in the fight for a livable planet is the work of making young people stewards of their places. This means giving young people the opportunity to explore natural places in their area to learn the flora, fauna, and funga. Learning about the ecosystems, watersheds and environments of our places and being able to observe changes in these systems over time is the first step in becoming conservationists. I remember when I was a young child bei
Forest Olson
Nov 12, 2025


Vintage Video: The Climate Lie that Built a Billion Dollar Industry
Check out our vintage video about why recycling is actually a lie.
Climate News Media
Nov 4, 2025


An Elaboration On Snowpack
In November of 2023, I published an article about decreasing snow pack levels. Here, I have elaborated on that article. If you haven't read my original article on this topic, you can find it here . According to study from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) measuring April snowpacks across various sites in the Western United States, 81% of the sites saw decreased snowpack. This resulted in an average decrease of 18% from 1955 to 2023. Here are a couple more facts from
Forest Olson
Oct 14, 2025


How can AI Help in the Climate Crisis?
Recently I wrote an article about the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on climate change. I mentioned at the end of that article that AI might also be a valuable asset in combating the climate crisis. If you haven't read my original article, I recommend you do so before reading the rest of this one. You can find that article HERE Now, here is a shot list of 3 ways that AI can help and will help climate change: Mapping AI can help map out areas, and is being used
Forest Olson
Sep 29, 2025


SunDay A Massive Success Across The United States
September the 21st was a Sunday. However, it was also SunDay. SunDay is a climate organization focused on finishing the transition to solar energy. The project was started by Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and author. SunDay was “a day of action on September 21, 2025” ( www.sunday.earth ) and is all about pushing for solar power, which is now the cheapest form of power in the world, and will create many new jobs. SunDay led way to over 450 events across almost all 50 stat
Forest Olson
Sep 25, 2025


The Last 25 Years Of Heat
The first quarter of the 21st century is almost over, and I decided to dive into the fact that some of the hottest years in our history have occurred already in this century. We have been keeping track of global temperatures since 1850, and the last 25 years have been among the hottest of the 175 years we've been keeping track. As you probably know, 2024 broke the record for being the hottest year on record, which by itself, you may think might just be a fluctuation, nothing
Forest Olson
Sep 17, 2025


SunDay: A Preview
SunDay is a climate organization focused on finishing the transition to solar energy. The project was started by Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and author. SunDay is “a day of action on September 21, 2025” ( www.sunday.earth ) and is all about pushing for solar power, which is now the cheapest form of power in the world, and will create many new jobs. SunDay is a day of hope of what the world can be if we all work together to make a solar-powered Earth. Check out SunDay's
Forest Olson
Sep 12, 2025
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