documentary helps us better understand the Extinction Rebellion movement By Alberto Sclaverano 2021 British documentary film Rebellion by Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sánchez Bellot (also co-producers) offers a unique look inside the rise and spread of the Extinction Rebellion (ER) movement. After the film premiere at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, it was released in the United Kingdom in 2022 and then, mainly through VOD platforms, in the rest of the world.

From repression under military dictatorship and exile to serving as editor-in-chief of Inter Press Service (IPS), fostering community media in Afghanistan, and building a network linking 476 universities worldwide, Ricardo Grassi’s journey—and the model he has developed along the way—resonates deeply with the vision of an IPS founder Dr. Roberto Savio: to give a voice to the voiceless and make information a force for social change. It also reflects INPS Japan’s commitment to

Legal thriller with strong pro-environment message By Alberto Sclaverano 2019 American legal thriller Dark Waters draws inspiration from real events. It is certainly not the first movie of its kind. In fact, it belongs to a long series of films based on true stories of common people that succeed in making a difference and uncover the crimes against the environment and the people committed by public or private authorities. Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich is one of the mai

A harsh documentary enlightens the darkest aspects of the human response to the climate crisis By Alberto Sclaverano The movie brings to light one of the most disturbing aspects of the ongoing climate crisis, and, for its style and goals, can be classified as a piece of investigative journalism, in the tradition of the best Anglo-Saxon products of its kind (think about Michael Moore’s documentaries for comparison). American filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite reached a certain

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Warmed Oceans Will Not Be Ignored It’s easy for us land dwellers to forget that we live on a water planet, more than 70% of it covered by a vast ocean. But we are entering an age—or more accurately, have created an age—when that fact will be impossible to ignore. With global climate change, the seas are rising, yes, but they are also warming, slowly but steadily, and that warmth is now reaching levels that can drive profound changes here

Source: Nepali Times Securing a future for community-managed conservation area below the world’s third highest mountain Nepal’s Kanchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) is one of the most unique experiments in community-managed nature protection in the Himalaya. The landscape below the world’s third highest mountain in eastern Nepal supports globally significant biodiversity, including the endangered snow leopard, red panda, musk deer, and black bear. But it also sustains mountai

Source: Tyndall Centre An international review of the 2025 fire season highlights the severe societal and economic losses caused by extreme wildfires, even as global burned area and fire emissions remained below average. A new analysis of global wildfire activity in 2025 reveals the world experienced some of the most destructive and deadly fire events in recent history, despite the second lowest area burned since 2002. It highlights a continued trend toward fires becoming inc

Source: Factum By Dulanjaya Mahagamage The global data center industry has experienced such a rapid and profound transformation that it has surpassed both regulatory frameworks and public understanding. Historically, digital infrastructure was viewed primarily as a technological issue focused on bandwidth, latency, and server capacity. However, this perspective is no longer sufficient. Data centers are now positioned at the crossroads of three major challenges defining the 21

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists How We Unlock the Huge Solar Potential in Massachusetts’ Environmental Justice Communities Massachusetts has tremendous solar potential in environmental justice neighborhoods: enough to power all of the Commonwealth’s nearly three million homes. Activating this resource is key to fulfilling the state’s decarbonization and affordability goals. This is particularly vital as energy costs have become an everyday point of discussion for Massac

Source: Tyndall Centre A study in Scientific Reports assesses long-term adaptation strategies for Venice under projected sea-level rise, highlighting the implications for coastal areas worldwide. Relocating the city of Venice is among four potential options – including movable barriers, ring dikes and closing the Venetian Lagoon – that could help it adapt to future sea-level rise over the next 200 years, according to a new study. Scientists assessed existing and potential ada

Source: Nepali Times Nepali researcher is still looking for answers to balancing nature conservation with human livelihoods t was a packed hall in the summer of 2019 at the 20th anniversary of the Student Conference on Conservation Science in Cambridge. An empty chair on the stage waited for one man. Hundreds of students and researchers excitedly anticipated the arrival of Sir David Attenborough. The British nature broadcaster and writer marked his 100th birthday this week,

Source: Tyndall Center Researchers warn that framing biodiversity loss as a national security threat relies on speculative migration projections and risks undermining the evidence-based policy required for genuine ecological restoration. Scientists have warned that a new UK Government report on global biodiversity loss and national security runs the risk of distorting evidence and driving ineffective policy by framing ecological degradation and its impacts on migration as a s

Source: Tyndall Centre Planning future reservoirs A significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions come from reservoirs and dams, and a new framework links those emissions directly to dam siting decisions. Here’s why it is a major step towards low-carbon hydropower, anywhere in the world. Reservoirs are a recognised source of greenhouse gases, but a new spatial planning framework shows how optimising where dams are built could substantially reduce emissions. Conventional appr

By Alberto Sclaverano Thrash (2026) opens with a caption that explains to us that “since 1980, the intensity, frequency, and duration of Atlantic hurricanes have increased 250%”. The increase in the number of violent hurricanes is a direct consequence of climate change, the film says. It is impossible not to think of the many hurricanes, whose names are at this point well-known around the world, that have plagued the US East coast during the last decades, and particularly t

How the Greenland film series could help us to appreciate the planet we have been gifted with By Alberto Sclaverano Released in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the sci-fi disaster movie, directed by genre specialist Ric Roman Waugh ( Angel Has Fallen , 2019), was a modest success. While it is not a movie explicitly related to climate change, it nevertheless offers a commentary on the beauty of our planet, a thing that many characters of the film really start to appreciate

Connecting the futures of jaguars, whales, and humans into one vibrant ecosystem By RAMESH JAURA Source: CMO COP15 Marking a watershed moment for global conservation, countries at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) united behind bold new protections for a host of threatened migratory species, including jaguars, sharks, and freshwater fish. Most significantly, they linked the fate of these

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists While most of us were prepping for the holiday season by baking cookies or readying ourselves for time with family, President Trump had different plans: just days before the end of the year, he issued a broad work-stoppage order against every major offshore wind project under construction. The cost of his latest attack on the industry, especially at the onset of a particularly cold winter? Less reliable power and higher prices for famili

Source: Tyndall Centre Key elements of climate action are difficult to reverse. From policies and technologies to the stories we tell ourselves, we are putting climate progress on a path where there is no turning back. Political efforts to weaken climate policy and discredit climate science have raised concerns about whether recent gains could stall or unravel. However, a new commentary in Nature Climate Change argues that ambitious climate action is underway: technological

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Our Energy Sources Should Evolve Too Data centers for AI are driving huge increases in electrical load, and there’s currently not enough power on the grid to match the projected growth. The Trump administration, having hamstrung solar and wind , is now trying to promote new fossil gas generation as the solution. There is no shortage of reasons to be concerned about this pro-fossil preference—the toxic pollution , the costs of unreliab

Source: Tyndall Centre Researchers report that well-designed climate policies prevented more than three billion tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2022, demonstrating that policy design is critical to effective decarbonisation. Countries with stricter and better-targeted climate policies cut carbon emissions faster, according to a major new study . Involving researchers in the UK and EU, including academics from the University of East Anglia (UEA), the study draws on the most compreh