Glass Wings Blog: Big
The 10 biggest physics and astronomy lies from 2023
100-million-year-old fossil find reveals huge flying reptile that patrolled Australia’s inland sea
2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin
215 million hectares of forest – an area bigger than Mexico – could grow back by itself, if we can just leave it alone
50 Years of Dungeons & Dragons: 10 Big Moments
A bag of Cheetos created a huge impact on a national park ecosystem
A “big victory” for intersex people and their rights
‘A bus is open to everyone regardless of class’: riding the world’s biggest network
‘A catastrophe’: Why world’s largest inland water body could disappear and what it says about climate change
A fierce battle is being fought in the soil beneath our feet – and the implications for global warming are huge
‘A fork in the road’: laundry-sorting robot spurs AI hopes and fears at Europe’s biggest tech event
A huge battery has replaced Hawaii’s last coal plant
A Huge Complex of Roman Baths with Mosaics Discovered in the Ancient City of Halaesa Archonidea in Sicily
A huge shark terrorises people in new French hit Under Paris. When will we stop villainising these animals?
A new solar farm is now shading Denver Botanic’s actual farm in one of the state’s biggest “agrivoltaics” experiments
A Peruvian farmer is trying to hold energy giant RWE responsible for climate change – the inside story of his groundbreaking court case
Africa is the world’s largest market for Guinness beer – how its ad campaigns exploit men
African countries at COP28: several big wins and a united voice
Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete – what happens next?
Arctic rivers face big changes with a warming climate, permafrost thaw and an accelerating water cycle − the effects will have global consequences
Aristotle, Aelian and the giant octopus: the earliest ‘citizen science’ goes back more than 2,000 years
As Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital is hit, anger towards Russia rages
Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen – and named them Porphyrion
Australia hit by ‘big wave’ of Covid at same time as increase in flu
Australian logistics giant to add 300 electric trucks, vans and mobile chargers
Australian pioneer in shared rooftop solar scores big from Biden billions
Australia’s big banks lent $3.6bn to fossil fuel expansion projects in 2023, report shows
Australia’s biggest companies made nearly $100bn in ‘crisis profits’ amid Covid and Ukraine war
Australia’s largest bank pulls plug on fossil fuel financing. Will other lenders follow suit?
Australia’s largest rail freight company to roll out battery electric tenders in “world first” trial
Axing the Auckland fuel tax reveals the lack of a real transport plan for NZ’s biggest city
“Bad news for the energy transition:” Far-right extremists score big in German state elections
Bhutan took a step towards queer rights, but its LGBTIQ+ people want a giant leap
Big alcohol and tobacco are the aces of strategic marketing. The gambling industry has adopted the playbook
The Big Apple gets a tiny forest: 1,000 native plants coming to New York
Big Auto lies, so we made a video about it
Big batteries and EVs to the rescue again as faults with new nuclear plant cause chaos on Nordic grids
Big batteries to shore up power in 20 Victorian tourist towns
The BIG Battery Breakdown: Fires, Failures and Future Breakthroughs!
Big brands are 'failing to curb plastic sachet use'
Big businesses will this year have to report their environmental impacts – but this alone won’t drive change
Big cars might make you feel safer. But here’s how vehicle size impacts others in a crash
Big cars, red meat, household gas: Consumers still have crucial role to play in cutting emissions
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ
Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa - why this is wrong
Big companies profit from poverty but aren’t obliged to uphold human rights. International law must change – scholar
The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched Western Australia
Big oil ‘fully owned the villain role’ in 2023, the hottest year ever recorded
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
Big renewables need big support: Local Energy Hubs can help us through the change
Big, Smoggy Bangkok Gets a Badly Needed Breath of Fresh Air
Big Tech disrupted disruption
Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition
The biggest solar-plus-storage project in the US just came online
The biggest-ever sample of core material from Earth’s mantle could have valuable clues into the origins of life
Bill passes to force big Australian companies to report on climate impacts and risks
Blue hydrogen from CCS is a con with a big carbon footprint
Booktopia, Australia’s biggest online bookseller, is poised for collapse. That doesn’t mean bookshops are in trouble
Britain’s decrepit homes cause three big problems. Luckily, this green policy could fix them all
California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels
California's largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across U.S. West
Car rental giant to add 27 Hyundai Ioniq EVs to Australian car fleet
Charming ambassadors with big appetites and universal appeal: China’s long history of ‘panda diplomacy’
China launches world’s largest electric container ship with 50 MWh battery
China: still the world’s biggest emitter, but also an emerging force in climate diplomacy
China’s first carbon border tax? Insiders flag big tariff on imported US gas guzzlers
Chinese auto giant XPeng to debut Australia’s first flying car next month
Climate change and nature loss are our biggest environmental problems - so why isn’t the market tackling them together?
Climate lawsuits build as a Latin American court hears largest case ever
Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
Clues left by the Alpine Fault’s last big quake reveal its direction – this will help NZ prepare for the inevitable next rupture
Coal mine methane mitigation is finally getting real again – but only after huge government handouts
Cop16: the world’s largest meeting to save nature has ended with no clear path ahead
COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant hosting 2023 climate change summit
Cotuhé: Peru’s Largest Conservation Concession Protects Nearly Half a Million Acres in Yaguas National Park Buffer Zone
Could Eelgrass Be the Next Big Bio-Based Building Material?
Councils from Paris to the Yarra want to use parking fees to clamp down on big SUVs. What are they doing and will they succeed?
Critically Endangered Parrot Bounces Back in Huge Conservation Victory
Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever
Dams have taken half the water from Australia’s second biggest river – and climate change will make it even worse
Despicable Me 4 - Minion Intelligence (Big Game Spot)
Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’
Digging In: Food’s Big, Plastic Problem
Do artists have a duty to speak truth to power? Jordan Prosser’s "Big Time" believes the future is ours to make
Dutton’s big nuclear plan: “A serious joke” that is mad, bad and dangerous
Earth’s oldest, tiniest creatures are poised to be climate change winners – and the repercussions could be huge
Electrify Everything Sure But What About Big Trucks?
Emissions from households’ water use are on a par with aviation. The big cuts and savings they can make are being neglected
‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England
Europe’s deepest mine to become giant gravity battery
The Farmers Abandoning Big Ag to Grow Mushrooms and Herbs
Fifty-year extension for one of Australia’s biggest CO₂ emitters likely after WA ditches emissions-reduction rules
Financial hardship is the biggest driver of loneliness. Here’s why – and how to tackle it
First evidence of ancient human occupation found in giant lava tube cave in Saudi Arabia
Florida is building the world's largest environmental restoration project
Flowers Are Evolving to Self-Pollinate, And It Could Be a Big Problem
Forrest strikes $4 billion deal for electric trucks and dozers to eliminate fossil fuels at giant mines
From climate change to landfill, AI promises to solve Earth’s big environmental problems – but there’s a hitch
From fires to forests: UN recognizes largest-ever restoration initiative across the Mediterranean
From mass deportations to huge tariff hikes, here’s what Trump’s economic program would do to the US and Australia
Fuente de Vida: New Conservation Area Protects Freshwater Sources for Bolivia’s Largest City and Expands a Wildlife Corridor
“Fundamental rethink:” One third of people willing to give up owning cars, nearly half in big cities
Germany suspects “serious environmental crime” from fake Big Oil carbon offset projects
Giant batteries drain economics of gas power plants
Giant Caribbean Mountain Chicken Frog On The Brink Of Extinction
Giant kelp forests on Tasman Peninsula survive marine heatwave, brings 'hope' amid climate change
Giant 'living tractors' are bringing nature back to post-industrial wastelands
Giant pangolin rediscovered in Senegal
Giant pumpkin paddler Adam quite possibly the first person to float in one down Tumut River
Giant redwoods: World’s largest trees 'thriving in UK'
Giant, Sparkly Clams Hide the Most Efficient Solar Panels Ever Found
Giant tortoises have returned to Madagascar 600 years after they were wiped out
Giant Trees of the Amazon State Park established in the Brazilian State of Pará
Giant waves, monster winds and Earth’s strongest current: here’s why the Southern Ocean is a global engine room
Going Big on Biodiversity
Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’
Has a big village of tiny homes eased homelessness in Austin?
History in Ink: Preserving the World’s Largest Cartoon and Comic Collection
Home truths: TV’s Kevin McCloud thinks Australia should stop building such big houses
How a teenager helped identify a new species of giant marine reptile
How Australia’s huge superannuation funds can do much more to fight climate change, with a little help
How do you make a giant gold nugget? Take a vein of quartz, add a few thousand earthquakes
How giant rodents could rat on wildlife traffickers
How Mexico City's biggest wholesale market is combating food waste
How sustainable is your weekly grocery shop? These small changes can have big benefits
‘Huge environmental win’: Australia to protect 52% of its oceans, more than any other country, Plibersek says
Huge EV charging hub to service electric grocery deliveries in Australia’s biggest city
Huge “first-of-its-kind” rewilding project to bring back lost species and create ecotourism paradise in South Africa
Huge gas fields – under a coral reef. Will a rejection on environmental grounds stop Woodside’s Browse project?
The Huge, High-Tech, Low-Carbon Kitchens Feeding Young Kenyans
Huge housing costs make us slaves to our jobs and unsustainable growth. But there’s another way
Huge new no-fishing zones give Antarctic marine predators and their prey a break
Huge park in Melbourne’s north to be returned to traditional owners
‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment
Huge volumes of whey go to waste. We could do much more with this nutrient-rich liquid
Huge waves in the atmosphere dump extreme rain on northern Australia
Humans can work with nature to solve big environmental problems – but there’s no quick fix
If Creators Suing AI Companies Over Copyright Win, It Will Further Entrench Big Tech
If plastic manufacturing goes up 10%, plastic pollution goes up 10% – and we’re set for a huge surge in production
In Bolivia, a 'conservation mosaic’ gets another (big) piece
Indian experts hail breakthrough in bid to save huge native bird
Indonesia is one of the world’s largest democracies, but it’s weaponising defamation laws to smother dissent
Industry calls for $3 billion fund to clean dirty big trucks
Internet Archive Files Appeal Brief Defending Libraries and Digital Lending From Big Publishers’ Legal Attack
Investment giant faces fine in first greenwashing action brought by ASIC
Is Winston Peters right to call state-funded journalism ‘bribery’ – or is there a bigger threat to democracy?
It’s a big deal if Australia and the Pacific are chosen to host UN climate talks. Here’s why
It’s time to give Australian courts the power to break up big firms that behave badly
I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia
Jet Charge to help Australia’s largest insurer electrify vehicle fleet
“Just like a normal digger but quicker:” BHP switches on its first giant electric excavator
The largest campaign finance violation in US history
Latest Draft of UN Cybercrime Treaty Is A Big Step Backward
Low Orbit Satellite Companies Respond To Scientists’ Concerns About Light And Environmental Pollution With Even Bigger, Brighter Satellites
Madagascar: giant tortoises have returned 600 years after they were wiped out
Mauritius has won back Chagos – but not all of it. Why the largest island, Diego Garcia, is so important to the UK
Meet Europe’s Big Five: wolf, lynx, brown bear, wolverine & bison
Meta’s lost revenue is a huge hit for public interest journalism, which was already reeling from cutbacks
Migration of 6m antelope in South Sudan dwarfs previous records for world’s biggest, aerial study reveals
Mining giant Fortescue says it’s time to walk away from the ‘proven fantasy’ of net zero
Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost
Money Talks In The World Of Copyright Legislation; And That’s A Big Problem For Ordinary Internet Users
More than 4 billion people are eligible to vote in an election in 2024. Is this democracy’s biggest test?
More than 6,000 sheep now call Australia’s largest solar farm home
My big move: I was a single mum living in a sharehouse. A commune gave us a stable place to call home
New Orleans Likes to Drink. They Spotted a Huge Recycling Opportunity
New Prada-designed spacesuit is a small step for astronaut style, but could be a giant leap for sustainable fashion
New York is suing the world’s biggest meat company. It might be a tipping point for greenwashing
New Zealand reclaims world record for largest mass haka
New Zealand’s biggest solar farm secures finance to go ahead at Christchurch Airport
Next Big Thing: Sustainable sodium – the next battery of the future
NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper
NZ’s big chill was an early winter warning: power should be subsidised for struggling households
The octopus fishermen protecting Portugal's largest reef
Olivetti’s Ivrea: How an Italian Tech Giant Built the World’s Most Progressive Company Town
One of Australia’s oldest wind farms could nearly double capacity by “repowering” with bigger turbines
One of world’s largest shipping tanker operators signs up for wind-assisted propulsion systems
Only 10% of native plants can be bought as seed – a big problem for nature repair. Here’s how we can make plantings more diverse
Ontario’s huge nuclear debt and other things Dutton doesn’t understand about cost of electricity
Opinion: U.S. faces biggest COVID wave since omicron. Why are we ignoring?
The Optus chief was right to quit but real change is unlikely at the telco until bigger issues are fixed
Our beef with ‘Big Meat’: the power perpetuating Australia’s live export trade is at play elsewhere
Outrage culture is a big, toxic problem. Why do we take part? And how can we stop?
Planning approval given for Australia’s biggest battery to soak up solar and replace coal
Power cuts in Ukraine after Russia’s biggest drone attack yet
Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it
Quirky hotel becomes world's largest building shaped like a chicken
The remote island where giant tortoises clear runways for albatrosses
The results of the biggest study on guaranteed income programs are finally in
Revealed: Big Oil given direct influence over university courses
Revealed: the 1,200 big methane leaks from waste dumps trashing the planet
Revealed: the growing income gap between Europe’s biggest and smallest farms
Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil
Rio Tinto to trial battery swap technology for electric trucks in giant Mongolia mine
Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO
Russia strikes Kyiv in huge drone attack hours after Trump win
Russia targets Ukraine’s power grid in biggest missile strike in months
Russia Uses Every Missile in Arsenal in Largest Attack Since Start of Ukraine War
Salmon Make a Long-Awaited Return to the Klamath River for the First Time in 112 Years, After Largest Dam Removal in U.S.
Saving Mar Menor, Europe’s largest salt lagoon
Scientists Find the Largest Known Genome Inside a Small Plant
Scientists have found carbon dioxide on Pluto’s largest moon – offering clues about how it formed
Scientists shocked to discover new species of green anaconda, the world’s biggest snake
Should we ditch big exam halls? Our research shows how high ceilings are associated with a lower score
Small Solar Is Driving Biggest Green Market in Latin America
SMS delivers world’s largest excavator – Komatsu PC8000 – to Copper Mountain
Solar giant inaugurates landmark agrivoltaic project combining modules with a yam crop in Japan
Solar panels on big Denver buildings throw shade that helps crops grow — and the plants return the favor
Solar Power’s Giants Are Providing More Energy Than Big Oil
Some journalists seem bored by the biggest story of our lifetimes
Spain’s apocalyptic floods show two undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil is killing us
Start date for Australia’s biggest renewable energy hub pushed out to end of decade
Study reveals huge potential for increasing transboundary conservation across Africa
Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’
Technology denial: Columbia Law School debunks 33 biggest myths about solar, wind and EVs
There’s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It
‘They do not respect our land. They do not respect our people’. Brazil’s traditional people take on BHP in one of the world’s biggest class actions
This 330kW battery generator uses a giant kite to charge itself
This GIANT Electric Mining Truck Charges in Under 30 minutes!
This new provincial park is the largest created in B.C. in a decade
This Tiny Electric Van Means BIG Business!
‘This used to be a beautiful place’: how the US became the world’s biggest fossil fuel state
Thrill seekers can now travel to the edge of space space in a giant hot air balloon for £100k
Tijuca Forest, Brazil’s Largest Urban National Park, Undergoes Rewilding To Preserve Its 40 Sq Km Green Haven
Tons of Chocolate and Wine Arrive on World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat
Too big to care
Two of the US’s biggest newspapers have refused to endorse a presidential candidate. This is how democracy dies
Typhoon Kong-rey: biggest storm in decades wreaks destruction in Taiwan
US election 2024: Trump victory in Iowa caucus not as big as he may have hoped – here’s why Biden still wants him to get GOP nomination
The U.S. is facing the biggest COVID wave since Omicron. Why are we still playing make-believe?
Variety kicks off “Big Electric Adventure” with 10,000 km EV drive through outback
Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023
Victoria lays out plan for 95 pct renewables, with no coal, not much gas and a big lift in demand
We found three new species of extinct giant kangaroo – and we don’t know why they died out when their cousins survived
“We’re not taking on the big guys:” Australia’s first indigenous energy retailer opens its doors
What Can ‘Green Islam’ Achieve in the World’s Largest Muslim Country?
What Ireland’s smoking ban 20 years ago can teach us about big changes to human behaviour
When bigger isn’t better: do Australian houses need to be the largest in the world?
When I was cycling, the world was big again': What it takes to replace a flight with a long-distance bike ride
‘Where’d you find tyres that size?’ Giant red tractor is Australia’s newest Big Thing
Why building more big dams is a costly gamble for our future water security and the environment
“Wild idea:” Could zeppelins really be used to air-ship huge wind turbine parts?
Will Big Carbon Capture the COP?
Will this be our biggest ever river catch?
Wind and solar pose climate threat too, oil giant Saudi Arabia argues
Wondering how to get from Brisbane to Melbourne without wrecking the climate? Our transport choices make a huge difference
Workers in Argentina face the biggest blow to their employment rights since the military dictatorship of the 1970s
The world’s biggest bus manufacturer has big electric plans for Australia
World’s biggest grids could be powered by renewables, with little or no storage – if we are smart enough
The world’s coral reefs are bigger than we thought – but it took satellites, snorkels and machine learning to see them
The world’s largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley
World’s largest air-to-water heat pump to warm 30,000 homes in Finland
The world’s largest battery electric ferry is being built in Australia: What will power it?
World’s largest oil companies ‘way off track’ on emissions goals, report finds
Yayoi Kusama’s Largest Permanent Public Sculpture Arrives in London
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