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
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- Newsletter http://bit.ly/bbg-zero
- Podcast http://bloomberg.com/zero-podcast
- Book https://akshatrathi.com/book
- [email protected]
World's first green-fuel levy in starting in Singapore from 2026.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
World's first green-fuel levy in starting in Singapore from 2026.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This is a phenomenal long read. The sort of article it's incredibly difficult to get permission and resources to write nowadays.
bloomberg ran an absolutely killer investigation this week into the Silicon Valley + Koch/Abundance forces running the show on nuclear deregulation this year:
The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again
A Silicon Valley startup called Oklo is leading the charge to bring nuclear power back to the US with small reactors. Its backers have wealth and political connections that could undermine nuclear saf...
www.bloomberg.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This is a phenomenal long read. The sort of article it's incredibly difficult to get permission and resources to write nowadays.
"I get that people are mad at "the media," but it would be great if folks could loudly and publicly support the folks who are doing solid work, who are taking on the risks of speaking truth to power," writes @amywestervelt.bsky.social. drilled.media/news/media-b...
Make Media Brave Again
The only way to protect what’s left of journalism is to do the job right.
drilled.media
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"I get that people are mad at "the media," but it would be great if folks could loudly and publicly support the folks who are doing solid work, who are taking on the risks of speaking truth to power," writes @amywestervelt.bsky.social. drilled.media/news/media-b...
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A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
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Seek the sunlight in your life, always. Be optimistic - it’s harder than pessimism, but far more joyful. You choose how to live.
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Seek the sunlight in your life, always. Be optimistic - it’s harder than pessimism, but far more joyful. You choose how to live.
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Typhoon FUNG-WONG is heading to the Philippines as the equivalent of a major Atlantic hurricane.
What’s really stands out is its immense eye. At one point today its eye spanned ~70 miles - about the distance from Tampa to Orlando. Picture an eye like that spanning the state!… 1/
What’s really stands out is its immense eye. At one point today its eye spanned ~70 miles - about the distance from Tampa to Orlando. Picture an eye like that spanning the state!… 1/
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Typhoon FUNG-WONG is heading to the Philippines as the equivalent of a major Atlantic hurricane.
What’s really stands out is its immense eye. At one point today its eye spanned ~70 miles - about the distance from Tampa to Orlando. Picture an eye like that spanning the state!… 1/
What’s really stands out is its immense eye. At one point today its eye spanned ~70 miles - about the distance from Tampa to Orlando. Picture an eye like that spanning the state!… 1/
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Sumaúma tree with Bloomberg journalists for scale:
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Sumaúma tree with Bloomberg journalists for scale:
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 08,1966
November 08,1966
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 08,1966
November 08,1966
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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday outlined plans to tax commercial flights and private jets, an initiative meant to combat planet-warming pollution from aviation that could hike the cost of business travel.
Private Jet, Business Class Tax Backed by Spain at Climate Talks
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday outlined plans to tax commercial flights and private jets, an initiative meant to combat planet-warming pollution from aviation that could hike the cost of business travel.
bloom.bg
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday outlined plans to tax commercial flights and private jets, an initiative meant to combat planet-warming pollution from aviation that could hike the cost of business travel.
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
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Stunning investigation by Reuters reveals income from ads for scams and banned goods on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp may have amounted to 10% of Meta global revenue in 2024, with 15 billion (!) scam ads being shown to users daily - based on company's own figures.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Stunning investigation by Reuters reveals income from ads for scams and banned goods on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp may have amounted to 10% of Meta global revenue in 2024, with 15 billion (!) scam ads being shown to users daily - based on company's own figures.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Two companies are responsible for 50% of the world's battery deployment so far this year. Both are, of course, Chinese.
"Global EV battery installations totaled 811.7 GWh from January to September"
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Global EV battery market share in Jan-Sept 2025: CATL 36.6%, BYD 17.9%
CATL and BYD collectively installed 442.2 GWh of EV batteries in January-September 2025, accounting for 54.5 percent of the global total.
cnevpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Two companies are responsible for 50% of the world's battery deployment so far this year. Both are, of course, Chinese.
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Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control.
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control.
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
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As you say grace before your dinner tonight, may I suggest you add your gratitude for the soil, the rain/water, the sunshine, the farm worker, the farmer, the trucker, the merchandiser, the grocer, and the food safety specialist.
The 2025 pomegranate season has started in CA’s San Joaquin Valley. "Tomas" works 8 hours a day filling nylon bags full of this sweet fruit and dumping them into huge crates. He wears long-sleeved shirts under sweatshirts to protect himself from the thorny branches. #WeFeedYou
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
As you say grace before your dinner tonight, may I suggest you add your gratitude for the soil, the rain/water, the sunshine, the farm worker, the farmer, the trucker, the merchandiser, the grocer, and the food safety specialist.
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"Cornell is the fourth institution to achieve an agreement with the Trump administration to restore federal money, following Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University." www.chronicle.com/article/corn...
Cornell Will Pay $60 Million and Provide Admissions Data in Deal to Restore Federal Funding
The university, which had seen hundreds of millions of dollars frozen, said the deal “will enable us to return to our teaching and research in restored partnership with federal agencies.”
www.chronicle.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Cornell is the fourth institution to achieve an agreement with the Trump administration to restore federal money, following Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University." www.chronicle.com/article/corn...
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We have people booked to bring broken food processors, favourite jumpers with damaged zips, and ailing plants. Don't miss this opportunity to repair your stuff with the help of 40 technicians and makers. Repair Café | Sustainable UCL - share.google/2qFlWYPHRPLs...
Repair Café
Bring your broken or damaged possessions to our UCL Repair Café event at UCL East Marshgate on Friday, 7th November.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We have people booked to bring broken food processors, favourite jumpers with damaged zips, and ailing plants. Don't miss this opportunity to repair your stuff with the help of 40 technicians and makers. Repair Café | Sustainable UCL - share.google/2qFlWYPHRPLs...
"Because of COPs and capitalism, there are signs of hope and genuine progress." www.channel4.com/news/why-cap...
Why capitalism isn’t waiting for COP – or climate change
World leaders are gathering for the next UN climate conference after calamitous scenes in the Caribbean, writes Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson from Belém in Brazil ahead of COP30.
www.channel4.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Because of COPs and capitalism, there are signs of hope and genuine progress." www.channel4.com/news/why-cap...
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New: There are no employees left at the National Park Service who can plug abandoned oil and gas wells, which can leak methane and contaminate groundwater. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/c...
He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New: There are no employees left at the National Park Service who can plug abandoned oil and gas wells, which can leak methane and contaminate groundwater. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/c...
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I was going to link to an article from this website, but I guess I'll find the info elsewhere. This is WAY more polarising than the shutdown messages I've seen on other US gov websites in the last few weeks.
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I was going to link to an article from this website, but I guess I'll find the info elsewhere. This is WAY more polarising than the shutdown messages I've seen on other US gov websites in the last few weeks.
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
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Summertime - 1943
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103807
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103807
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Summertime - 1943
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103807
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103807
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Britain is a rainforest nation.
Britain’s PM is currently in a rainforest in Brazil.
Why isn’t he drawing the links between tropical & temperate rainforests, supporting Brazil’s fund, and setting out plans to restore Britain’s rainforests?
Me for BBC Radio4 The World Tonight, last night:
Britain’s PM is currently in a rainforest in Brazil.
Why isn’t he drawing the links between tropical & temperate rainforests, supporting Brazil’s fund, and setting out plans to restore Britain’s rainforests?
Me for BBC Radio4 The World Tonight, last night:
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Britain is a rainforest nation.
Britain’s PM is currently in a rainforest in Brazil.
Why isn’t he drawing the links between tropical & temperate rainforests, supporting Brazil’s fund, and setting out plans to restore Britain’s rainforests?
Me for BBC Radio4 The World Tonight, last night:
Britain’s PM is currently in a rainforest in Brazil.
Why isn’t he drawing the links between tropical & temperate rainforests, supporting Brazil’s fund, and setting out plans to restore Britain’s rainforests?
Me for BBC Radio4 The World Tonight, last night:
Electrostate ftw
FT Exclusive: Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the US in the artificial intelligence race, thanks to lower energy costs and looser regulations.
Read more from his interview with the Financial Times: on.ft.com/4oQbYuP
Read more from his interview with the Financial Times: on.ft.com/4oQbYuP
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Electrostate ftw
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It has been 60 years, to the day, since LBJ released a report to the public about pollution. I wrote about appendix Y4 of that report.
"The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
"The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us
Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It has been 60 years, to the day, since LBJ released a report to the public about pollution. I wrote about appendix Y4 of that report.
"The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
"The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
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I was on a panel yesterday and the moderator said, “I love your optimism [about addressing climate change]”
I deadpanned, sincerely: “we have no choice”
I deadpanned, sincerely: “we have no choice”
June 7, 2024 at 10:23 PM
I was on a panel yesterday and the moderator said, “I love your optimism [about addressing climate change]”
I deadpanned, sincerely: “we have no choice”
I deadpanned, sincerely: “we have no choice”