Joey Grostern

1 week ago | desmog.com | Joey Grostern

Climate disinformation was routinely broadcast in news programmes across French TV and radio in the first three months of 2025, with 128 verified cases identified by an alliance of NGOs.Using AI to identify misleading narratives, which were then reviewed by fact-checkers, the alliance assessed programmes classed as “news” by the French broadcast regulator ARCOM from 19 TV and radio stations. A preliminary report was produced by the French NGOs Data For Good, QuotaClimat, and Science Feedback.

1 week ago | ecotopical.com | Joey Grostern

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1 week ago | cleanenergywire.org | Joey Grostern

Topsoil across much of Germany is significantly drier than usual for the beginning of April which could impact crop yields, with some of the driest springtime conditions since records began, according to data from the drought monitor at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ). The topsoil, the upper 30 centimetres of soil, was particularly dry across the north German lowlands and around the western low German mountains.

2 months ago | desmog.com | Joey Grostern |Clare Carlile

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage endorsed a conspiracy theory popular among the far-right during a speech at a farmers’ protest on Monday (10 February), DeSmog can revealThousands of farmers descended on London to oppose plans to reduce the threshold for paying inheritance tax on land to £1 million, which critics say could force some family farms to sell their land.

2 months ago | cleanenergywire.org | Joey Grostern

State-owned liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals on the North Sea at Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbüttel handled the majority of Germany’s imported LNG last year, and operated at 65 percent capacity, according to company statistics reported by the German press agency dpa. Deutsche Regas, the privately-owned operator of two terminals on the Baltic Sea, has warned of “unfair competition” from the state-owned Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET) that receives public money to support its operation.