Oil companies have funded research that does not require us to stop using oil and gas. ProPublica and Drilled have found that this has led to the potential and perceived effectiveness of carbon capture and storage being overstated. This nicely illustrated scrollytelling article details the technological and financial hurdles of this technology.

It’s not worth talking to a climate change denier. However, denialism has changed; many no longer question climate change itself or its human cause, but rather the dramatic consequences. With this less contrarian position, misinformation is harder to spot. In his typically emotional and entertaining style, Hank Green analyses a video that uses a number of techniques to mislead the viewer. For example, how are people labelled (scientist, activist, journalist)? Which charts are selected to represent climate change? Are the numbers expressed as absolute or relative values? Is data shown for selected periods? Does the voice in the video simply state different information to that shown in the data?

The video is an excellent lesson in how to deal with all kinds of misinformation, fake news and visually misleading information: humorous yet sharp and absolute.

The Lucas Gusher in Texas, USA, was the first major oil discovery. John Gerrard uses this location in his never-ending digital simulation, in which a flagpole perpetually releases pressurised black smoke, creating the image of a flag.

Antarctica’s melting ice is already raising sea levels around the globe. To find out how soon and by how much extra water to expect on the world’s coasts, nearly 40 scientists from the Korea Polar Research Institute are travelling to Antarctica to drill holes, fly over the ice with radars, and tag seals with sensors. The New York Time’s reporter Raymond Zhong and photographer Chang W. Lee joined them to report “live” from the expedition.

In his YouTube video, Alec Watson of Technology Connections, does the maths on solar energy. While petrol is a single-use fuel for driving your car, a solar panel will generate electricity almost for free once the initial investment has been paid off. He also explains why the required area for solar panels is not a valid criticism of the technology by doing the maths on land use for ethanol in the US. He also discusses materials and batteries.

In the final part, Watson turns to US politics, where the topic of climate change is more politicised than anywhere else in the world, and discusses how Democrats have repeatedly pushed for a shift towards a more economically sustainable future.

Many compare India and China’s energy systems as they stand today, noting China’s lead. Yet a more meaningful comparison looks at equivalent stages of development. At a similar GDP per capita, India is generating more solar electricity, using far fewer fossil fuels and electrifying transport faster than China did. By harnessing some of the world’s cheapest solar power, India is fueling its industrial rise while bypassing a costly and insecure fossil-fuel interlude. Solar’s advantages lie in cost and speed: its modularity allows deployment in months rather than years, and because it can be installed at almost any scale, from Mumbai rooftops to Rajasthan desert sun farms, far more actors take part in the energy revolution.

The New York Times has collected a climate solution from each of the 50 US states. These range from car-free cities in Arizona and shell recycling in Connecticut to helping bees in Kansas, a library of things in Maine and vegan food in Oregon, as well as A.I. analysis of bird habitats in Washington.

Chinese photographer Weimin Chu has captured Shan shui-inspired images of China’s solar and wind industries. The series, which was mostly captured using drones, was shown at Greenpeace East Asia’s Beijing office in an  exhibition called “Lighting the Future: People’s Hope and Power in China’s Green Energy Future”.

The photograph above shows the Zhejiang Xiangshan Changda (Datang) Mudflat Solar Farm. This closer-angled photograph better illustrates the construction of the farm.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) just released the Global Climate Highlights 2025 report. The “report provides authoritative climate data and concise insight on a global scale about 2025's climate conditions, covering surface and sea surface temperature, heat stress, sea ice extent in the Arctic and Antarctic, among others”.

It includes a “Joy Division chart”/“Ridgeline plot”, that was inspired by Erwan Rivault’s work (included in the Information Is Beautiful Longlist 2024). The chart created for this report compares the years 1940 to 2025 with the 1991–2020 average daily global surface air temperature anomalies (°C).

Activists struggle with the high costs when designing the visual identity of protests, which often lack sufficient  funding. Matthew Hinders-Anderson took it upon himself` to create “good-looking, freely-distributable fonts” that could be used by any “activist, an[y] academic, or anyone just trying to make this world a better place”.

Another designer who cannot go unmentioned in this context is Tré Seals, whose typefaces are inspired by social justice movements, especially those within the Black community.