Climate News: Is the electric car a fantasy?; Decade of coalition inaction behind Victoria's blackout; Be brave, stay positive, find your tribe

Electric cars have advantages but are still just that, demanding a spacious road network and copious parking areas in our towns and cities. "Why do Chinese EVs meet so much resistance?"; "Victoria’s blackout crisis is rooted in a decade of Coalition inaction"; "Be brave, stay positive, find your tribe: three climate activists explain how to get started"; "Five women scientists working to save the world"; "Mike vs the fossil fuel machine: Push for a new legal duty to the environment"; "Climate case explores how law and tikanga intersect"; "Climate Is Now a Culture War Issue"; "Fearsome threesome: how a trio of climate drivers is baking Australia’s west and leaving the east soaked"; "Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims have proposed a $100 billion-a-year fossil fuel tax – and it’s a debate Australia should embrace"; "20°C seems the optimal temperature for life on Earth to thrive – what does this mean in a warming world?" "As the world heats up, solar panels will degrade faster – especially in hot, humid areas. What can we do?"; "Why Don’t We Just Ban Fossil Fuels?"; "Climate chaos: world overheats while Europe faces a new Ice Age"; "Report: Plastics, Oil Industry Deceived Public on Recycling Use for More Than 50 Years"; "In Wyoming, Sheep May Safely Graze Under Solar Panels in One of the State’s First “Agrivoltaic” Projects"; "Q&A: Everyday Plastics Are Making Us Sick—and Costing Us $250 Billion a Year in Healthcare"; "Take a Cue From Texas: Socialize Energy"; "As the Number of American Farms and Farmers Declines, Agriculture Secretary Urges Climate Action to Reverse the Trend"; "February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records"; "Very cool: trees stalling effects of global heating in eastern US, study finds"; "Climate Change Is Forcing Families Into a New Kind of Indefinite Hell"; "Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View"; "Power struggle: fears for UK energy generation as green projects delayed"; "Weather tracker: Flash flooding in Oman and record temperatures in Western Australia"; "Problems mount for Sahara gas pipeline, leaving Nigerian taxpayers at risk"; "Switzerland proposes first UN expert group on solar geoengineering"; "Blended finance can perpetuate climate colonialism"; "How your editors deal with climate grief"; "Last month was the world’s warmest January on record"; "Danish photos from the 1930s show what Greenland’s glaciers used to look like"; "The essentials of climate scenario analysis for financial institutions"; "How to prepare for an evacuation"; "‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals"; "California Tried to Ban Plastic Grocery Bags. It Didn’t Work."; "Climate activists dump pink powder on case containing US Constitution"; "What a waste: New York City budget cuts eviscerate community composting groups"; "Explainer: How climate change affects Europe's farmers"; "A traditional automaker just turned a profit on EVs"; "1.7 million deaths in cities linked to air pollution with Delhi ranked worst in world – report"; "Bhavreen Kandhari’s Post"; "Mystery over ‘unexpectedly large’ emissions from Africa’s tropical ecosystems"; "British Gas profits surge tenfold as energy bill rules relaxed"; "Parts of Amazon rainforest could tip toward collapse by 2050, study warns"; "The Age of the Urban Inferno Is Here"; "Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims have proposed a $100 billion-a-year fossil fuel tax – and it’s a debate Australia should embrace"; "Porsche EV will lead Bathurst 500 into a greener, faster future"; "How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer"; "Author Spotlight on Joëlle Gergis"; "Oldest platypus found in the wild is ‘beyond all our expectations’, say researchers"; "Push to weatherproof Australia’s electricity grid as 77,000 still without power in Victoria"; "Postcards from Kamikatsu: Japan's 'zero waste' town"; "National Archives closes after climate change protesters dump red powder on U.S. Constitution".