In China, solar power just overtook coal as the largest source of installed power capacity
While coal still dominates the actual amount of energy generated, China has now officially more installed capacity for solar power than coal. As of July, the country had 1,288 gigawatts of solar capacity installed, surpassing coal’s 1,285 gigawatts.
In March 2025, wind and solar power capacity in China together surpassed coal for the first time, but this is the first time solar alone has achieved the milestone.
What’s the nuance? Coal still dominates the actual amount of electricity generated in China, at 49.7%, whereas solar provided 24.6%. Still, even this is good progress, as it also represented the first time coal’s share of generation dropped below 50%.
A group of Cherokee youth won legal rights for a waterway in first all-female effort in the US
A group of Indigenous girls aged 10 to 17, the NAIWA Daughters, brought a resolution to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council, seeking to recognize the legal rights of the Longperson, a waterway system in the Great Smoky Mountains region.
It passed the council unanimously and became the first all-female-led rights-of-nature effort in the country — as well as only the second youth-led resolution passed by a Tribal nation.
An 18-month grassroots effort built on the rights-of-nature movement, which says ecosystems and nature should have the legal right to exist and flourish.
“With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.”
🌽 Dolly Parton-shaped corn mazes are cropping up across the U.S.
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