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.

Robbie Andrew’s area and line charts are updated weekly to include the current atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa in Hawaii, sea surface temperature anomalies, and the global average atmospheric CO₂ concentration.

China's expansion of solar and wind power is breathtaking, both in terms of scale and technological progress. In contrast to Trump’s USA, China’s CO₂ emissions have remained constant or even fallen over the last 18 months. (A result, as Dan Wang argues, from China being a state run by engineers whereas the USA is run by lawyers.)
As a result, the West is losing its pioneering role and more and more countries are turning to China. Countries that in the past were assured “common but differentiated responsibilities” for climate change, but which are now making astonishing progress. In his newsletter post, Bill McRibben shows how India, Pakistan, Jordan, Brazil, India, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Nepal are finding progressive and innovative climate solutions.

In August 2009, Duncan Porter visited the Rhône Glacier in Wallis, Switzerland, and took a selfie with his wife in front of it. Fifteen years later, in August 2025, he returned and took another selfie with his wife in front of the glacier. The viral post shows the glacier’s staggering retreat.

Others who have documented the glacier's retreat include Christian Åslund of Greenpeace and Neill Drake.

Cooled people “work mostly indoors, bathed in the soothing breeze of manufactured air.” Cooked people are those, who are delivery drivers, oil field workers, farmworkers, construction workers, …

In his opinion peace for The New York Times, Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, describes the divide between these two groups as “The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked.” However, this uneven suffering can certainly be extended to people outside the USA.