Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters

The country has committed €540 million to climate-resilient irrigation and launched an AI-based farmer-scoring system, developed with the FAO, to channel subsidies to smallholders who adopt water-saving and soil-regenerating techniques

The energy transition is usually counted at the outlet: electric vehicles, renewable gigawatts, barrels displaced. Upstream, the material system that produces those outputs is still expanding. This investigation follows that mismatch. Clean technologies exist. The blind spot is what they require

OpenAI boss Sam Altman thinks people should have more faith in his company and others like it to do the right thing when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) development amid rising public concerns about all the risks