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2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.
Climate Crisis

2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.

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The most significant green energy good news stories we covered in 2025

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In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind

In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind

12/29/2025 By Yale Climate Connections

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

12/29/2025 By The Conversation

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Human Rights
Iraqi Women’s Rights Under Threat

Iraqi Women’s Rights Under Threat

(By Erin Evers) Few disagree that the Iraqi government’s increasingly Shia character has alienated its Sunni population—but what has mounting sectarian division meant for the […]

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Egypt
Egypt: Al-Sisi's run for President: Bonapartism and Gulf Oil Money

Egypt: Al-Sisi’s run for President: Bonapartism and Gulf Oil Money

(By Juan Cole) Egypt’s Brig. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, 59, on Wednesday resigned his military commission and announced that he will run for president. He […]

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Barack Obama
Donald Rumsfeld: A "Trained Ape" would be better at U.S. diplomacy than Obama

Donald Rumsfeld: A “Trained Ape” would be better at U.S. diplomacy than Obama

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Monday blasted President Barack Obama’s diplomacy, saying a “trained ape” could do a better job. In an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, Rumsfeld complained that relations with…

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Domestic Surveillance
Invasion of the Corporate Data Snatchers:  The Internet of Things

Invasion of the Corporate Data Snatchers: The Internet of Things

(By Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood) Estimates vary, but by 2020 there could be over 30 billion devices connected to the Internet. Once dumb, they […]

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Drones
The Rise of the Drones (Infographic)

The Rise of the Drones (Infographic)

Source: SecurityDegreeHub.com RT America: “New drone steals smartphone contents”

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Climate Change
Israeli Kibbutz uses Robots To Combat Desert Dust that obscures Solar Panels

Israeli Kibbutz uses Robots To Combat Desert Dust that obscures Solar Panels

The humble chore of cleaning solar panels plays a key role in solar cell efficiency, especially in desert regions where frequent dust storms and lack of rain combine to reduce panel output by up to 35 percent. That same lack of rain also presents a…

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Eastern Europe
Is Russia a "Regional Power" or "Geopolitical Threat"?  Obama argues with Romney from the Hague

Is Russia a “Regional Power” or “Geopolitical Threat”? Obama argues with Romney from the Hague

(By Juan Cole) The peculiar American two-party system followed President Obama to the Hague on Tuesday, where he gave a joint press conference with the […]

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Climate Change
Climate Change is hitting us Now & will only Worsen:  When will We Start Acting Like Adults?

Climate Change is hitting us Now & will only Worsen: When will We Start Acting Like Adults?

(By Tom Giesen) Americans tell us through a recent Gallop poll that upward of 65% of them know global warming is happening. However, only 36% […]

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astronomy and outer space
Creationists to Neil deGrasse Tyson: Evolution isn’t scientific, but the Book of Genesis is

Creationists to Neil deGrasse Tyson: Evolution isn’t scientific, but the Book of Genesis is

Creationist Ray Comfort complained that Neil deGrasse Tyson had misrepresented the Bible. The astrophysicist and host of Fox’s “Cosmos” said recently that using the Bible as a scientific source was problematic, because no one had ever scientifically…

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