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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.
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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.

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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

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Birth of Hope: Top Ten Solar Energy Stories 2013

Birth of Hope: Top Ten Solar Energy Stories 2013

(By Juan Cole) The story of a doomed race who need to be saved by a messiah is on people’s minds today. It functions at […]

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Dissent
Damascus’s Other Battle:  Regime Cyberwar on the Opposition

Damascus’s Other Battle: Regime Cyberwar on the Opposition

(By Dave Maass) Social Engineering and Malware in Syria: EFF and Citizen Lab’s Latest Report on the Digital Battlefield (via EFF) More than two years […]

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Climate Change
Climate Denialists Spending Billions in untraceable Dark Money to fool the Public

Climate Denialists Spending Billions in untraceable Dark Money to fool the Public

(By Lauren McCauley) The expansive misinformation campaign behind climate change denial is increasingly being funded in the dark, reveals a new report published Friday in […]

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History
Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

The Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, in the center Iran’s population in 1900 was around 10 million. There were roughly 100,000 Jews in Iran at […]

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Egypt
The Iraqization of Egypt: Two Large Bombs Rock Security Bldg in Mansoura, kill 14, wound 130

The Iraqization of Egypt: Two Large Bombs Rock Security Bldg in Mansoura, kill 14, wound 130

(By Juan Cole) Two large explosions at the state security building in downtown Mansoura, Dahqaliya Province, killed at least 14 persons and wounded 130 on […]

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Human Rights
War Crime: Syrian Regime Killed Hundreds of Civilians, including Children, with Airstrikes on Aleppo

War Crime: Syrian Regime Killed Hundreds of Civilians, including Children, with Airstrikes on Aleppo

(By Ole Solvang, senior emergencies researcher, Human Rights Watch) < Dozens of government airstrikes that have killed hundreds of civilians, including children, in Aleppo governorate […]

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Arab Spring
From Tahrir to New Orleans:  Hope has not Failed, it has only Begun

From Tahrir to New Orleans: Hope has not Failed, it has only Begun

(By Rebecca Solnit) Hope, History, and UnpredictabilityBy Rebecca Solnit North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds […]

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art and photography
A Christian Bride of Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

A Christian Bride of Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

Caption: A Mosul Bride: The girl in the centre of the picture is a Christian bride decked out in her wedding costume. The gold coins, […]

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China
Coleridge, Kubla Khan (Poem of the Day)

Coleridge, Kubla Khan (Poem of the Day)

(By Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Kubla Khan Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, […]

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