Glass Wings Blog: Big

The 10 biggest physics and astronomy lies from 2023
2 biggest threats to wombats revealed in new data gathered by citizen scientists
2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin
4-day work week trials have been labelled a ‘resounding success’. But 4 big questions need answers
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 bus is open to everyone regardless of class’: riding the world’s biggest network
A huge battery has replaced Hawaii’s last coal plant
A Peruvian farmer is trying to hold energy giant RWE responsible for climate change – the inside story of his groundbreaking court case
‘A target on my back’: New survey shows racism is a huge problem in nursing
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
Africa's largest polio vaccination drive since 2020 targets 21 million children
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?
As India’s Project Tiger turns 50, hope for the big cat
As Projects Decline, the Era of Building Big Dams Draws to a Close
Australia breaches WHO treaty with carbon neutral certification of big tobacco company
Australia to ban non-prescription vapes in biggest smoking reforms in a decade
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
Australia’s biggest agri-solar and battery storage project wins planning approval
Australia’s biggest vehicle-to-grid charging station opened to back up wind and solar
Australia’s extinct giant eagle was big enough to snatch koalas from trees
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
Before the colonists came, we burned small and burned often to avoid big fires. It’s time to relearn cultural burning
Bhutan took a step towards queer rights, but its LGBTIQ+ people want a giant leap
Biden designates area sacred to tribes as largest national monument of his presidency
Big batteries, green hydrogen and range extenders: The big plan to decarbonise rail fleet
Big batteries storm the fossil fuel citadels, and spell the end for coal and gas
The BIG Battery Breakdown: Fires, Failures and Future Breakthroughs!
Big Business can’t stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ
Big electric trucks on the roads could be a long haul
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 question of how small chips can get
The Big Red Button Argument for Unconditional Basic Income
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
The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes
Canada is on fire, and big oil is the arsonist
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
Chinese investors call for mandatory translation of property rules, as fallout at one of Australia's largest apartment buildings continues
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
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
Critically Endangered Parrot Bounces Back in Huge Conservation Victory
Darwin’s ‘sustainable’ Middle Arm project reveals Australia’s huge climate policy gamble
Debunking The Biggest MYTHS About EVs
Despicable Me 4 - Minion Intelligence (Big Game Spot)
Don’t fret about students using ChatGPT to cheat – AI is a bigger threat to educational equality
E-fuels: how big a niche can they carve out for cars?
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
Emissions from WA gas project with world’s largest industrial carbon capture system rise by more than 50%
Engineered stone kills tradies. Bunnings and IKEA stopping its sales is a big win for public health
Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area brings Indigenous communities into the fold
European countries pledge huge expansion of North Sea wind farms
Europe’s deepest mine to become giant gravity battery
Extreme weather is landing more Australians in hospital – and heat is the biggest culprit
The Flashlight-Wielding, Frog-Taxiing Guardians of Spring’s ‘Big Night’
Floods turn world’s biggest heavy metal festival into mudbath
Flowers Are Evolving to Self-Pollinate, And It Could Be a Big Problem
From the basement to the big screen: how Dungeons & Dragons evolved from a game to a multi-media franchise
Fully Charged Live confirms return to Australia in 2024, but at bigger venue
Galapagos Giant Tortoises Prove Their Worth as Ecosystem Engineers
Gas can’t compete with wind, solar and storage, even in world’s biggest market
Gender-based violence is a big concern in hospitality – and women bear the brunt of managing it
Get inspired by the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments, the world’s largest photo contest
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 old trees are still being logged in Tasmanian forests. We must find ways of better protecting them
Giant sea lizards: fossils in Morocco reveal the astounding diversity of marine life 66 million years ago, just before the asteroid hit
Giant Study Identifies Dominant Force Driving Evolution on Earth Today
Giant tortoises have returned to Madagascar 600 years after they were wiped out
Giant tree-kangaroos once lived in unexpected places all over Australia, according to major new analysis
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
Goodbye Mr Fabulous, the giant cuttlefish who let us into his world and changed ours for the better
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
Here’s why The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is big news – even among those who don’t see themselves as ‘gamers’
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 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 one Argentinian city overhauled its waste management to tackle one of the world's largest rubbish dumps
How the country's largest ferry system is going green
Huge Cadia gold mine ordered to reduce polluting dust. Is it safe to live near a mine like this?
Huge, FREE covid safety resource list
Huge park in Melbourne’s north to be returned to traditional owners
If Creators Suing AI Companies Over Copyright Win, It Will Further Entrench Big Tech
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 very big’: new species of giant trapdoor spider discovered in Queensland
The joke’s on us – how big tech is replicating our laughter online
JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe
Lake Superior’s largest private island to be sold to Nature Conservancy of Canada
Land clearing and fracking in Australia’s Northern Territory threatens the world’s largest intact tropical savanna
Largest river and wetland restoration initiative in history launched at UN Water Conference
The Latest Dangerous Conspiracy Theory: That Conspiracy Theory Research Is Part Of A Big Conspiracy
Latest Draft of UN Cybercrime Treaty Is A Big Step Backward
Latin America poised to become renewable energy giant: report
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
Meet the biggest and most bizarre skink ever found in Australia. It became extinct 47,000 years ago
Melbourne tops Sydney as Australia’s biggest city – on a technicality
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 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 York just made the largest state renewables investment in US history
Next Big Thing: Communicating the next pandemic
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
Norway’s largest electric truck is a 66t monster that will cut out 156 tons of CO2 annually
Oceans absorb 30% of our emissions, driven by a huge carbon pump. Tiny marine animals are key to working out its climate impacts
One Big Thing I Learned About The Industry By Helping Start An EV Conversion Business
One Huge Contradiction Is Undoing Our Best Climate Efforts
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
The Other Big Reason To Decarbonize The Way We Drive
Ottawa says it's making Canada's largest ever investment in protecting fresh water
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
Post-Covid, post-bankruptcy Hertz is all-in on electric, with big implications for the EV, auto and rideshare market
Preparing homes for wildfires is big business that's only getting started
Recycling can release huge quantities of microplastics, study finds
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
The rise of Yevgeny Prigozhin: how a one-time food caterer became Vladimir Putin’s biggest threat
Rooftop solar poised to become Australia's biggest power source amid coal's demise
Russia Uses Every Missile in Arsenal in Largest Attack Since Start of Ukraine War
Scientists shocked to discover new species of green anaconda, the world’s biggest snake
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
Study reveals huge potential for increasing transboundary conservation across Africa
Taiwan draws hundreds of thousands in East Asia’s largest Pride march
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 Tamiya R/C Car Is Every ‘80s Kid’s Dream!
This startup is using robots to 3D print giant wind turbine blades
This Tiny Car Solves The BIGGEST Problem With Electric Vehicles
Three Big Questions We Face in the Age of Extinction
Tiny Forests With Big Benefits
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
UAE and Egypt advance development of Africa's biggest wind farm
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
‘WA’s Christmas tree’: what mungee, the world’s largest mistletoe, can teach us about treading lightly
We are in denial about the huge consequences of long COVID on Canadians’ health
We could need 6 times more of the minerals used for renewables and batteries. How can we avoid a huge increase in mining impacts?
‘We may be looking at the end of capitalism’: One of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks warns ‘Greedflation’ has gone too far
Welcome to the big blimp boom
Welcome to the Big Blur
The West Australian goes big on Woodside’s ‘keeping lights on’ claim but keeps readers in dark on climate
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 is everyone buying truckzillas that are too big for our streets?
Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets
Why taxing the world’s biggest companies at 15% won’t fix the gaping hole in global tax rules
Will Big Carbon Capture the COP?
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
The world is hooked on junk food: how big companies pull it off
World’s biggest bat colony gathers in Zambia every year: we used artificial intelligence to count them
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
World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthrough in energy density
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
“Wrong direction:” Australia called out for betting bigger on fossil gas
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