NEWS

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Euronews

Scientists say sea-levels are about to fall in Greenland

Liam Gilliver

28-Jan-2026

The Greenland land mass is currently compressed by the huge sea of ice that lays upon it. But as the ice melts, Greenland will be freed from this massive weight, and will rise out of the ocean. 

"Rising sea levels are linked to increased coastal flooding and accelerated shoreline erosion. For every cm of sea level rise,  six million people on the planet are exposed to coastal flooding." 

When the opposite occurs, there are still consequences. Coastal communities in Greenland build their infrastructure with current sea levels in mind, meaning they could be left “high and dry” if there’s a noticeable drop.

Euronews

Off the fossil fuel rollercoaster

Liam Gilliver

26-Jan-2026

Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK have signed the "Hamburg Declaration" to deliver 100GW of joint offshore wind projects in the North Sea by 2050. 

• 90,000 jobs
• 30% lower power costs (15 years)
• World's "largest clean energy reservoir"
•  €1 Trillion in capital spend mobilised
• 143 million homes powered

Harvard Gazette

AI Is Dulling Our Minds

Liz Mineo, Harvard Staff Writer

 13-Nov-2025

A recent MIT Media Lab study reported that “excessive reliance on AI-driven solutions” may contribute” to “cognitive atrophy” and shrinking of critical thinking abilities...

Arcalis Energy avoids AI and prohibits use of AI tools on company documents. 

American Offshore Wind Academy

Siniša Lozo, Dir. Bus Dev't, Naver Energy

30-May-2025

Let Developers Lead: The Smarter Path Forward For Offshore Wind

"Speed, flexibility, and real-world engagement are enabled when the developer is allowed to lead the process". "CADEMO on California is Just 60 MW - but light-years ahead in terms of process. Developer-led, community-engaged, union-connected. They didn’t wait for a perfect policy - they got to work."

"Stop Over Planning. Start Listening - & Start Building

US East Coast projects have struggled under a plan-led model—rigid, top-down, slow. Permitting delays, rising costs, and canceled projects have shown how fragile over-engineered systems can be. Europe has seen these problems too."

Euronews

Marie Lecoq, 08-Feb-2024

Wind energy: How are EU countries contributing to the 2030 targets?

Compared to solar panels, wind turbines emit less CO2 into the atmosphere, consume less energy, and produce more energy overall.

In fact, one wind turbine can generate the same amount of electricity per kWh as approximately 48,704 solar panels.

This is in part because solar panels stop producing at night.

“Solar PV has an average capacity factor [i.e. an average output] of 20%, even in Spain or Italy, because at night there is nothing, so you discount all that”.

Euronews

Lotte Limb, 07-Feb-2024

"Unprecedented collapse" in EU coal and gas electricity

More of Europe’s electricity came from wind power than fossil gas for the first time ever last year.

Wind (18%) and solar (9%) produced a record 27 per cent of the bloc’s electricity in 2023 - above a quarter for the first time. Coal and gas took a corresponding nosedive, with the former falling to its lowest ever level at just 12 per cent of the EU’s electricity generation.

Euronews

Ruth Wright, 06-Feb-2024

Stronger hurricanes are here but would a new category keep people safer?

Scientists say category-6 is needed to account for the strength of climate change-induced hurricanes. Since 2013, five storms - all in the Pacific - had winds of 308 kph or higher that would have put them in the new category, with two hitting the Philippines. 

"...as temperatures rise, the number of days with conditions ripe for potential Category 6 storms in the Gulf of Mexico will grow. Now it's about 10 days a year where the environment could be right for a Category 6, but that could go up to a month if the globe heats to 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That would make an Atlantic Category 6 much more likely."

Sarah Griffiths, BBC Future, 28-Jun-2023

The real story behind the Atlantic's record-breaking seaweed blobs

The world's biggest bloom of sargassum in the Atlantic Ocean is filled with plastic and bacteria that live on it – they could be the secret behind the seaweed's success.