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
2 biggest threats to wombats revealed in new data gathered by citizen scientists
2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin
7 years, billions of kilometres, a handful of dust: NASA just brought back the largest-ever asteroid sample
A Big New Report on American Children Is Out. It’s Horrific.
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 fierce battle is being fought in the soil beneath our feet – and the implications for global warming are huge
A huge battery has replaced Hawaii’s last coal plant
A huge shark terrorises people in new French hit Under Paris. When will we stop villainising these animals?
A Peruvian farmer is trying to hold energy giant RWE responsible for climate change – the inside story of his groundbreaking court case
A Trip to Ukraine Clarified the Stakes. And They’re Huge.
'A Watershed Moment': California Sues Big Oil Over Decades of Climate Destruction
African countries at COP28: several big wins and a united voice
America's largest hospital chain has an algorithmic death panel
Antarctica is missing a chunk of sea ice bigger than Greenland – what’s going on?
Arctic rivers face big changes with a warming climate, permafrost thaw and an accelerating water cycle − the effects will have global consequences
Australia breaches WHO treaty with carbon neutral certification of big tobacco company
Australia hit by ‘big wave’ of Covid at same time as increase in flu
Australia was not big enough to vote for the voice, Stan Grant says
Australian academics apologise for false AI-generated allegations against big four consultancy firms
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 biggest agri-solar and battery storage project wins planning approval
Australia’s biggest companies made nearly $100bn in ‘crisis profits’ amid Covid and Ukraine war
Australia’s biggest vehicle-to-grid charging station opened to back up wind and solar
Australia’s largest rail freight company to roll out battery electric tenders in “world first” trial
Australia’s new dawn: becoming a green superpower with a big role in cutting global emissions
Australia's two biggest cities just got closer to phasing out gas stoves
Axing the Auckland fuel tax reveals the lack of a real transport plan for NZ’s biggest city
Batteries on wheels: EVs can deliver huge amount of low cost storage for wind and solar
Beach cleaners notice big increase in plastic waste from merchant ships washing up on our shores
Bhutan took a step towards queer rights, but its LGBTIQ+ people want a giant leap
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, green hydrogen and range extenders: The big plan to decarbonise rail fleet
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
The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched Western Australia
The big idea: is it too late to stop extremism taking over politics?
Big oil ‘fully owned the villain role’ in 2023, the hottest year ever recorded
Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble
Big Oil’s Talent Crisis: High Salaries Are No Longer Enough
The Big Red Button Argument for Unconditional Basic Income
Big, Smoggy Bangkok Gets a Badly Needed Breath of Fresh Air
Big Tech Can’t Stop Telling On Itself
Big Tech disrupted disruption
Big W has withdrawn Welcome to Sex from its stores to protect staff – but teen sex education can keep young people safe
Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition
The biggest solar-plus-storage project in the US just came online
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
Carbon Pricing Is A Big Broom That Sweeps Up A Lot Of Climate Problems
Cat Godzillas: Giant Cats In Cities by Fransdita Muafidin
CEOs at Australia’s biggest companies earn 55 times more than typical worker, report finds
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’s first carbon border tax? Insiders flag big tariff on imported US gas guzzlers
Cleaning up Australia’s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job – but the payoffs can outweigh the costs
Climate change and nature loss are our biggest environmental problems - so why isn’t the market tackling them together?
Climate Change is a Bigger Existential Threat Than AI
Climate change is about to play a big role in government purchases – with vast implications for the US economy
Climate lawsuits build as a Latin American court hears largest case ever
Cop28 host UAE has world’s biggest climate-busting oil plans, data indicates
COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant hosting 2023 climate change summit
‘Corrosive impact’: calls to ban political donations from Australia’s big four consultancies after PwC scandal
Cotuhé: Peru’s Largest Conservation Concession Protects Nearly Half a Million Acres in Yaguas National Park Buffer Zone
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
Darwin’s ‘sustainable’ Middle Arm project reveals Australia’s huge climate policy gamble
Despicable Me 4 - Minion Intelligence (Big Game Spot)
Digging In: Food’s Big, Plastic Problem
Dutton’s big nuclear plan: “A serious joke” that is mad, bad and dangerous
Electric big rigs are going farther and charging faster
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
Engineered stone kills tradies. Bunnings and IKEA stopping its sales is a big win for public health
‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England
Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area brings Indigenous communities into the fold
Europe’s deepest mine to become giant gravity battery
Extreme weather is landing more Australians in hospital – and heat is the biggest culprit
First evidence of ancient human occupation found in giant lava tube cave in Saudi Arabia
Floods turn world’s biggest heavy metal festival into mudbath
Flowers Are Evolving to Self-Pollinate, And It Could Be a Big Problem
From fires to forests: UN recognizes largest-ever restoration initiative across the Mediterranean
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
Galapagos Giant Tortoises Prove Their Worth as Ecosystem Engineers
Gender-based violence is a big concern in hospitality – and women bear the brunt of managing it
Giant batteries drain economics of gas power plants
Giant Caribbean Mountain Chicken Frog On The Brink Of Extinction
Giant Cracks Emerging Across US Southwest, Scientists Warn
Giant eagles and scavenging vultures shared the skies of ancient Australia
Giant kelp forests on Tasman Peninsula survive marine heatwave, brings 'hope' amid climate change
Giant old trees are still being logged in Tasmanian forests. We must find ways of better protecting them
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 sea lizards: fossils in Morocco reveal the astounding diversity of marine life 66 million years ago, just before the asteroid hit
Giant tortoises have returned to Madagascar 600 years after they were wiped out
Glorious New Saturn Image: JWST Has Now Captured All 4 Giant Planets
‘Go hard and go big’: How Australia got solar panels onto one in every three houses
Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’
Greece wildfire declared largest ever recorded in EU
Has a big village of tiny homes eased homelessness in Austin?
Here’s what Europe’s largest floating solar farm is going to look like
Historic transfer protects the largest intact bay in coastal South Carolina
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 big are the fires burning in Australia’s north? Interactive map shows they’ve burned an area larger than Spain
How Big Oil Is Hijacking The Climate Conference
How Mexico City's biggest wholesale market is combating food waste
How the country's largest ferry system is going green
Huge “first-of-its-kind” rewilding project to bring back lost species and create ecotourism paradise in South Africa
Huge, FREE covid safety resource list
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
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
I’m an OT and the biggest lesson for parents is in Bluey’s episode Muffin Cone
In Bolivia, a 'conservation mosaic’ gets another (big) piece
Indigenous and local communities see big gains in land rights, study shows
Indonesia is one of the world’s largest democracies, but it’s weaponising defamation laws to smother dissent
Internet Archive Files Appeal Brief Defending Libraries and Digital Lending From Big Publishers’ Legal Attack
Invasive species lead driver of biodiversity loss in Australia – and feral cats have biggest impact, report finds
Is Saudi Arabia using ‘sportswashing’ to simply hide its human rights abuses – or is there a bigger strategy at play?
Is Winston Peters right to call state-funded journalism ‘bribery’ – or is there a bigger threat to democracy?
It’s time to give Australian courts the power to break up big firms that behave badly
The joke’s on us – how big tech is replicating our laughter online
JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe
Latest Draft of UN Cybercrime Treaty Is A Big Step Backward
Madagascar: giant tortoises have returned 600 years after they were wiped out
Mangrove Forest Thrives Around What Was Once Latin America's Largest Landfill
Mar Menor: cleaning Europe's largest saltwater lagoon
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
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
More than mumblecore and bigger than Barbie – who is Greta Gerwig?
My big move: I was a single mum living in a sharehouse. A commune gave us a stable place to call home
Natural Gas Is Bringing Down Big Oil
Netherlands Set to Close Europe’s Biggest Gas Field in 2023
New Orleans Likes to Drink. They Spotted a Huge Recycling Opportunity
New York is suing the world’s biggest meat company. It might be a tipping point for greenwashing
New York just made the largest state renewables investment in US history
Next Big Thing: Sustainable sodium – the next battery of the future
Niéde Guidon’s 50-year fight to protect Serra da Capivara, the Americas’ largest prehistoric site
Northern Europe faces biggest relative increase in uncomfortable heat and is dangerously unprepared – new research
NZ’s big chill was an early winter warning: power should be subsidised for struggling households
The octopus fishermen protecting Portugal's largest reef
One Huge Contradiction Is Undoing Our Best Climate Efforts
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
Open Source Is Struggling And It's Not Big Tech That Is To Blame
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
Outrage culture is a big, toxic problem. Why do we take part? And how can we stop?
People working on climate solutions are facing a big obstacle: conspiracy theories
Planning approval given for Australia’s biggest battery to soak up solar and replace coal
Pollution at Australia’s largest Antarctic research station exceeded guidelines for almost 20 years
Preparing homes for wildfires is big business that's only getting started
Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord
The remote island where giant tortoises clear runways for albatrosses
Revealed: Big Oil given direct influence over university courses
Revealed: the 1,200 big methane leaks from waste dumps trashing the planet
Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil
Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO
Russia Uses Every Missile in Arsenal in Largest Attack Since Start of Ukraine War
Scientists Find the Largest Known Genome Inside a Small Plant
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 panel technology is set to be turbo-charged – but first, a few big roadblocks have to be cleared
Solar Philippines to break ground on world’s ‘largest’ solar farm this year
Solar Power’s Giants Are Providing More Energy Than Big Oil
Some journalists seem bored by the biggest story of our lifetimes
Study reveals huge potential for increasing transboundary conservation across Africa
Taiwan draws hundreds of thousands in East Asia’s largest Pride march
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
‘There’s still beauty’: a national park bounces back after California’s biggest single fire
This 330kW battery generator uses a giant kite to charge itself
This GIANT Electric Mining Truck Charges in Under 30 minutes!
This Giant Tamiya R/C Car Is Every ‘80s Kid’s Dream!
This new provincial park is the largest created in B.C. in a decade
This startup is using robots to 3D print giant wind turbine blades
This Tiny Car Solves The BIGGEST Problem With Electric Vehicles
Tijuca Forest, Brazil’s Largest Urban National Park, Undergoes Rewilding To Preserve Its 40 Sq Km Green Haven
Tiny Forests With Big Benefits
Tons of Chocolate and Wine Arrive on World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat
Too big to care
Too big, too heavy and too slow to change: road transport is way off track for net zero
Trump is undermining the entire US judicial system with another big lie
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?
Vaping found to be the biggest risk factor for teenage tobacco smoking
Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023
We found three new species of extinct giant kangaroo – and we don’t know why they died out when their cousins survived
Welcome to the big blimp boom
The West Australian goes big on Woodside’s ‘keeping lights on’ claim but keeps readers in dark on climate
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
What the TRUCK?! Electric Vehicles Are Getting Bigger and Bigger!
‘What went wrong here?’: Big banks refuse coal king $1b debt refinance
When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco
Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets
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
Woodside LNG: Australia’s ‘biggest’ contribution to climate crisis a step closer to 50-year extension
Workers in Argentina face the biggest blow to their employment rights since the military dictatorship of the 1970s
World’s biggest bat colony gathers in Zambia every year: we used artificial intelligence to count them
World’s biggest grids could be powered by renewables, with little or no storage – if we are smart enough
The World's Biggest Permafrost Crater is Melting Due To Rising Temperatures
The world’s biggest problem? Powerful psychopaths. | Brian Klaas
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
The World's Largest Forest Wilderness Seems to Be Shrinking
World’s Largest Lithium Mine Is In Australia
World’s largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship rescues sailboat
World’s largest oil companies ‘way off track’ on emissions goals, report finds
“Wrong direction:” Australia called out for betting bigger on fossil gas
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