Renewable energy now world's biggest power source
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Solar and wind power have overtaken coal as the world’s leading source of electricity for the first time on record. Record solar expansion and steady wind growth is driving the shift, with China and India among the countries leading the clean energy charge.
On the second anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel, talks on a Gaza ceasefire are ongoing, with President Trump claiming an agreement on his 20-point peace deal is close. Scientists win a Nobel Prize for discovering why the human immune system does not destroy the body. A rare insight into life in North Korea as a study suggests people are hunting wild animals to the point of extinction due to food shortages. Also: why scientists are freezing the eggs of an endangered butterfly, Bari Weiss becomes the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, and Instagram celebrates its 15th birthday.
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| 0:07.3 | If American politics is leaving you with a lot of questions, you're not alone. |
| 0:12.3 | On America's, we chat through what's really going on. |
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| 0:23.6 | This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:29.4 | Ammanka to sign in the early hours of Tuesday the 7th of October, these are our main stories. |
| 0:34.7 | Renewable energy has overtaken coal as the world's biggest source of |
| 0:37.9 | electricity. Exactly two years after the Hamas attack on Israel are the two sides any closer |
| 0:43.9 | to reaching an agreement to end the war in Gaza? We look at the massive contribution of the |
| 0:49.1 | scientists awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. |
| 0:58.3 | Also in this podcast, a rare insight into life in North Korea. |
| 1:04.0 | A study suggests people are hunting wild animals to the point of extinction due to food shortages. |
| 1:05.3 | And... I think it will be possible to bring back insects from the brink of extinction. |
| 1:09.8 | So the prior preservation approach, it will be another weapon in our armory. |
| 1:14.1 | Why scientists are freezing the eggs of an endangered butterfly. |
| 1:23.0 | Solar and wind power overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity for the first time in the first half of this year. |
| 1:30.2 | That's according to new data from the Global Energy Think Tank Ember. |
| 1:34.5 | The growth in solar and wind was so strong in about 100% of the new global electricity demand, |
| 1:40.6 | even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use. With more details, here's our climate |
| 1:46.5 | editor, Justin Rowlatt. Ember described this as a crucial turning point and said there is no |
| 1:52.6 | stopping the transition to clean power now. But the new data from the think tank shows the world |
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