Akshat Rathi
@akshatrathi.bsky.social
- Senior climate reporter, Bloomberg News
- Newsletter http://bit.ly/bbg-zero
- Podcast http://bloomberg.com/zero-podcast
- Book https://akshatrathi.com/book
- [email protected]
- Newsletter http://bit.ly/bbg-zero
- Podcast http://bloomberg.com/zero-podcast
- Book https://akshatrathi.com/book
- [email protected]
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
VIDEO: 🇹🇭 🇲🇾 Tens of thousands displaced by floods in Thailand and Malaysia
Tens of thousands of people in Thailand and neighbouring Malaysia have been displaced by widespread flooding, with streets submerged, homes inundated and at least 34 people dead, officials said
Tens of thousands of people in Thailand and neighbouring Malaysia have been displaced by widespread flooding, with streets submerged, homes inundated and at least 34 people dead, officials said
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
VIDEO: 🇹🇭 🇲🇾 Tens of thousands displaced by floods in Thailand and Malaysia
Tens of thousands of people in Thailand and neighbouring Malaysia have been displaced by widespread flooding, with streets submerged, homes inundated and at least 34 people dead, officials said
Tens of thousands of people in Thailand and neighbouring Malaysia have been displaced by widespread flooding, with streets submerged, homes inundated and at least 34 people dead, officials said
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
An apt historical precedent for AI:
Fritz Haber is both the reason the world can support 8 billion people *and* directly responsible for the mechanized mass slaughter that is modern warfare.
AI is the Haber-Bosch process of our age.
behaviourchangecornwall.co.uk/the-legacy-o...
Fritz Haber is both the reason the world can support 8 billion people *and* directly responsible for the mechanized mass slaughter that is modern warfare.
AI is the Haber-Bosch process of our age.
behaviourchangecornwall.co.uk/the-legacy-o...
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
An apt historical precedent for AI:
Fritz Haber is both the reason the world can support 8 billion people *and* directly responsible for the mechanized mass slaughter that is modern warfare.
AI is the Haber-Bosch process of our age.
behaviourchangecornwall.co.uk/the-legacy-o...
Fritz Haber is both the reason the world can support 8 billion people *and* directly responsible for the mechanized mass slaughter that is modern warfare.
AI is the Haber-Bosch process of our age.
behaviourchangecornwall.co.uk/the-legacy-o...
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
hot take: AI *should* be polarizing!
* it's built on a murky foundation of thinking about copyright & is generally terrible for artists
* it's also one of the best things to ever happen to software development
* it's powerful tech with enormous negative externalities
* it's built on a murky foundation of thinking about copyright & is generally terrible for artists
* it's also one of the best things to ever happen to software development
* it's powerful tech with enormous negative externalities
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
hot take: AI *should* be polarizing!
* it's built on a murky foundation of thinking about copyright & is generally terrible for artists
* it's also one of the best things to ever happen to software development
* it's powerful tech with enormous negative externalities
* it's built on a murky foundation of thinking about copyright & is generally terrible for artists
* it's also one of the best things to ever happen to software development
* it's powerful tech with enormous negative externalities
Looking forward to Ed Miliband's explanation for the inclusion of per-mile fee on electric cars, while freezing fuel duty for petrol and diesel vehicles.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Looking forward to Ed Miliband's explanation for the inclusion of per-mile fee on electric cars, while freezing fuel duty for petrol and diesel vehicles.
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
Please listen to Al #Gore:
„We have to address the democracy crisis as part of our strategy for addressing the #ClimateCrisis.“ 👏👏👏
omny.fm/shows/zero/a...
„We have to address the democracy crisis as part of our strategy for addressing the #ClimateCrisis.“ 👏👏👏
omny.fm/shows/zero/a...
Al Gore: Fossil fuel companies are destabilizing democracy and environment - Zero
Climate solutions are here, they’re just not evenly distributed. So says former US Vice President Al Gore, who remains staunchly optimistic that we can move faster to tackle climate change, even at a ...
omny.fm
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Please listen to Al #Gore:
„We have to address the democracy crisis as part of our strategy for addressing the #ClimateCrisis.“ 👏👏👏
omny.fm/shows/zero/a...
„We have to address the democracy crisis as part of our strategy for addressing the #ClimateCrisis.“ 👏👏👏
omny.fm/shows/zero/a...
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
Fall will be “falling” this week with Wild weather swings across the East.
Makes holiday packing a pain with a 40-50° temperature swing from Mid to late week.
Makes holiday packing a pain with a 40-50° temperature swing from Mid to late week.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Fall will be “falling” this week with Wild weather swings across the East.
Makes holiday packing a pain with a 40-50° temperature swing from Mid to late week.
Makes holiday packing a pain with a 40-50° temperature swing from Mid to late week.
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
Scoop: Tesla co-founder JB Straubel's battery recycling firm Redwood Materials laid off dozens of staff, as the company shifts its focus to energy storage and critical minerals. This comes a month after Redwood raised $350 million for an over $6 billion valuation. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tesla Co-Founder Straubel’s Battery Startup Redwood Fires Dozens
Tesla Inc. co-founder JB Straubel’s battery recycling firm Redwood Materials Inc. cut dozens of jobs as the startup scales back some of its ambitious projects to refocus on tapping into demand for gri...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Scoop: Tesla co-founder JB Straubel's battery recycling firm Redwood Materials laid off dozens of staff, as the company shifts its focus to energy storage and critical minerals. This comes a month after Redwood raised $350 million for an over $6 billion valuation. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic
Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
There are no magic answers to good health
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People who stop using Mounjaro suffer reversal of health benefits, says study | Health | The Guardian
Stopping use of jabs brings regained weight plus loss of benefits regarding ‘bad’ cholesterol and blood pressure
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
There are no magic answers to good health
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
There are no magic answers to good health
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People who stop using Mounjaro suffer reversal of health benefits, says study
Stopping use of jabs brings regained weight plus loss of benefits regarding ‘bad’ cholesterol and blood pressure
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There are no magic answers to good health
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
My latest for @rollingstone.com
Trump’s Vendetta Against Wind is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices.
But in Baltimore, I met blue collar workers who are fighting back, preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future,” and defending offshore wind.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump’s Vendetta Against Wind is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices.
But in Baltimore, I met blue collar workers who are fighting back, preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future,” and defending offshore wind.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My latest for @rollingstone.com
Trump’s Vendetta Against Wind is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices.
But in Baltimore, I met blue collar workers who are fighting back, preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future,” and defending offshore wind.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump’s Vendetta Against Wind is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices.
But in Baltimore, I met blue collar workers who are fighting back, preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future,” and defending offshore wind.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
CATL dropped its 5th-gen LFP — higher density, longer life, and another reminder why they’re the gravitational centre of the battery universe. Official specs sit around 205 Wh/kg, with some analysts whispering 210, but the message is the same: #LFP isn’t slowing down. It’s leveling up.⚡️ #Lithium
CATL launches 5th-gen LFP batteries with higher density, longer life
Chinese EV battery maker CATL’s new LFP batteries deliver higher energy density and longer cycle life.
share.google
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
“Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a saviour. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead.” 🌻👇
@drteague9455.bsky.social set a trap for his students, what he learned is a major bummer. The lure of the large language model is strong, and the students don't know what they don't know. Freedom and literacy are on the line, history urges us to our own work.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating
"I am no stranger to students trying to cut corners by copying and pasting from Wikipedia, but the introduction of generative AI has enabled them to cheat in startling new ways."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a saviour. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead.” 🌻👇
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
The data center boom is built on the assumption that AI chips will last at least five years. But we don’t actually know how long chips are good for.
The AI Industry Is Built on a Big Unproven Assumption
In addition to the projections about reaching artificial general intelligence and replacing millions of human workers, there’s the mundane matter of how long AI chips will last.
bloom.bg
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The data center boom is built on the assumption that AI chips will last at least five years. But we don’t actually know how long chips are good for.
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 24,1948
November 24,1948
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 24,1948
November 24,1948
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
FT: "The EU's industry commissioner, Stéphane Séjourné, has said the revised rules would probably stipulate that foreign investors had to recruit local workers and in “certain sectors like batteries” transfer technological knowhow."
www.ft.com/content/a719...
www.ft.com/content/a719...
EU to tighten investment rules to stand up to China
Commission wants greater benefits for local workers and technology transfers when foreign companies set up in bloc
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 AM
FT: "The EU's industry commissioner, Stéphane Séjourné, has said the revised rules would probably stipulate that foreign investors had to recruit local workers and in “certain sectors like batteries” transfer technological knowhow."
www.ft.com/content/a719...
www.ft.com/content/a719...
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
COP30 came to a weak conclusion. But there was concrete progress on some of the demands Indigenous peoples brought, like for land designations and direct finance. Gift link:
Indigenous Peoples’ Demands Got More Than Lip Service at COP30
Members of Indigenous groups left the summit with concrete progress on some of their priorities, including land designation and direct finance.
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
COP30 came to a weak conclusion. But there was concrete progress on some of the demands Indigenous peoples brought, like for land designations and direct finance. Gift link:
What will the next generation say about COPs of the 2020s?
Bloomberg Green's final dispatch from COP30 concludes: “How can a small island state force the EU to do anything? Multilateralism is the only way to give voice to those with less geopolitical power.”
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Bloomberg Green's final dispatch from COP30 concludes: “How can a small island state force the EU to do anything? Multilateralism is the only way to give voice to those with less geopolitical power.”
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A Decade After Paris, Climate Diplomacy Is About Saving Itself
The outcome of the COP30 summit in Brazil kept multilateralism alive while barely pushing forward the promise of combatting global warming.
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
What will the next generation say about COPs of the 2020s?
Bloomberg Green's final dispatch from COP30 concludes: “How can a small island state force the EU to do anything? Multilateralism is the only way to give voice to those with less geopolitical power.”
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Bloomberg Green's final dispatch from COP30 concludes: “How can a small island state force the EU to do anything? Multilateralism is the only way to give voice to those with less geopolitical power.”
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Reposted by Akshat Rathi
While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...