A First: Scientists Grow Plants In Soil From The Moon
Scientists have, for the first time, grown plants in soil from the Moon… […]
Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat Of Warming And Rising Salinity
As rising seas increase saltwater intrusion and soaring temperatures cause greater evaporation, scientists say that the mounting levels of salt in waters and in soils pose a major climate-related danger and could become a leading [...]
San Antonio Taps Quidnet Energy to Build Big Underground Battery
San Antonio will use pressurized water pumped underground to store energy on a scale most batteries can’t match, in a deal with Bill Gates-backed Quidnet Energy… […]
Kiri Westby – What Does It Mean to Leverage Privilege?
by Kiri Wesby: Three recent examples we can all emulate. […]
Rivian Wins $1.5 Billion Incentive Package For Georgia Plant
Electric-pickup maker Rivian Automotive Inc. will receive $1.5 billion in state and local incentives to build a massive plant near Atlanta, bolstering the company’s production efforts despite local resistance to the project… […]
Mercedes-Benz Foresees EV-Only Production Lines Within A Few Years
by Victoria Waldersee and Ilona Wissenbach: Mercedes-Benz expects to have factories producing exclusively electric vehicles (EVs) by the second half of the decade […]
VanMoof’s New Ebikes Are Part Of A Masterplan To Become The Tesla Of Two-Wheelers
by Collum Booth: The S5 and A5 are the company’s newest electric bikes… […]
More Bad News For Fossil Fuels: Silicon-Lithium EV Batteries Deliver Next-Level Performance
by Tina Casey: EV batteries already deliver long range and quick charging times, and new silicon-lithium technology will bump those performance markers up to the next level… […]
Mercedes Opens Battery Plant for Alabama-Made Electric SUVs
Mercedes-Benz Group AG opened a battery factory in Alabama months before the luxury-car maker starts assembling electric SUVs […]
Hold On, Why Does Norway Get the World’s Fastest EV Charger!?
The Terra 360 can fully charge EVs in less than 15 minutes. […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Epoch-Defining Spirituality of Nature
by Vincent Williams: Few and far between are writings that have power to shape a whole culture. […]
Solar + Battery Hybrids Are Poised For Explosive Growth
by Joachim Seel and Bentham Paulos and Will Gorman: America’s electric power system is undergoing radical change as it transitions from fossil fuels to renewable energy. […]
Is The Best Medicine Around Right Beneath Our Feet?
by Chip Richards: As we move through our very fast paced lives and become more aware of the negative impact of stress and other lifestyle factors on our body… […]
Colorado Encourages Residents To Drive Electric
by Elizabeth Elkins: Drive Electric Colorado is a new initiative designed to educate residents about the positive reasons to make the switch to driving an electric vehicle (EV)… […]
The US Just Put $3 Billion Towards Securing Its Battery Supply Chain
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: In the coming years and decades, critical minerals will start to rival oil and gas as the world’s most sought-after commodities, and the US is currently not very well-positioned to compete [...]
Electric Vehicles, Not Luxury Cars, Dominate the New York Auto Show
The auto show, expected after two years of lockdowns to drive off into an irrelevant sunset, isn’t dead yet… […]
Houston Gets the Green Light for Nation’s Largest Urban Solar Farm
The city of Houston has received approval to move forward with plans to convert a former landfill into a 50-megawatt solar farm… […]
What to See in the Night Sky for May 2022
by Michael d’Estries: A sun-grazing comet, full lunar eclipse, and potential ‘storm’ of shooting stars dot the May nightscape… […]
Rich Countries Should Consume Less Meat
by Lloyd Alter: A new report looks at all the impacts of meat and it’s not pretty… […]
Solar Panels Are Reaching Their Limit. These Crystals Could Change That.
by Tom Metcaffe: Solar panels made from materials called perovskites could change how we generate electricity, opening the door to flexible and even transparent solar panels… […]
Which new solar panel technologies will revolutionize energy production?
by Jagpreet Sandhu: In this post, we take a detailed look at 5 solar technologies that will have the biggest impact on the solar industry over the coming years… […]
10 Projects To Watch In The Solar-Plus-Storage Pipeline
by David Cox: As the U.S. works to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy demand continues to increase… […]
An untapped clean energy resource lies underneath our feet
by John King: Last year, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a historic decision ordering utilities to procure 11.5 GW of clean energy to come online between the years 2023 and 2026… […]
Prophets Without Robes Or Staffs
by Roger Lipsey: Hammarskjöld, Havel, Mandela, Thunberg… […]
Millions Ordered To Cut Water Use In Drought-Stricken California
by Robert Jablon: “This is unprecedented territory. We’ve never done anything like this before,” said the board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California… […]
Climate Clues from the Past Prompt a New Look at History
by Jaques Leslie: As scientists rapidly improve their ability to decipher past climate upheaval through ice cores and other “proxies,” historians are re-examining previous political and social turmoil and linking it to volcanic eruptions… [...]
Finland Is On The Brink Of A Nuclear Power ‘Game Changer’
by Alexander C. Kaufman: The radioactive waste question has bedeviled the energy sector and made nuclear power controversial, but the Finns have a plan to dispose of it for 100,000 years… […]
PG&E’s Tesla Megapack Battery In California Now Operational
A 182.5-MW energy storage system in Northern California that was designed and constructed in a partnership between Tesla and Pacific Gas and Electric Company is now operational, the utility announced April 18… […]
L.A. Approves Major Green Power Purchase
The City Council in Los Angeles has approved one of largest purchases of renewable energy power in the United States… […]
Why Are Nature-Based Solutions on Climate Being Overlooked?
by Fred Pearce: On the low-lying northern shore of the Indonesian island of Java, the sea has invaded a kilometer inland in places in recent years, […]
Interest Soars In Self-Sustaining Homes Called Earthships: “It’s Kind Of Like A Conspiracy Of Enlightenment”
Along a rural road in northern New Mexico, homes rise from the dusty desert with futuristic shapes resembling something from another planet. They are known as Earthships: off-the-grid homes built into the ground… […]
10 Earth Day Facts That Might Surprise You
By Tori B Powell: This Earth Day, test your environmental knowledge by participating in CBS News’ #OutGreenMe challenge… […]
Generating Electricity From Heat With No Moving Parts
by Charles Q. Choi: Just as solar cells generate electricity from sunlight, thermophotovoltaic cells do so from infrared light… […]
U.S. Unveils Battery Strategy In West Virginia To Ease Coal Loss
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Senator Joe Manchin on Friday announced a program to develop lithium batteries in the U.S. as part of a broader strategy to help Appalachia amid a transition away from coal… [...]
Getting Your Dose of Nature
by Jacob Devaney: We spend so much time looking at the world through computer screens and car windows as if we are living in a bubble that is separate from nature… […]
U.S. Wind Surpassed Both Coal And Nuclear Power For The First Time Ever
by Charles Kennedy: Power generation from wind turbines was the second-largest source of electricity in the United States on March 29… […]
The Ultimate Stargazing Road Trip
By John Silcox: Home to Portugal’s “mountain of stars” and some of Europe’s least light-polluted skies, the Alentejo region is best seen at night… […]
Free of Heavy Metals, New Battery Design Could Alleviate Environmental Concerns
by Young-hye Na: Today, IBM Research is building on a long history of materials science innovation to unveil a new battery discovery… […]
Nissan and NASA Are Teaming Up to Make a Metal-Free Solid-State Battery
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: The slow but steady transition to renewable energy was already underway when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, […]
Oat Milk vs. Soy Milk: Which Is More Environmentally Friendly?
by Olivia Young: Soy milk might be the original dairy milk alternative, but oat milk is most definitely the trendiest… […]
It’s Not Just Glen Canyon—Dams Around The Southwest Are Taking A Hit
by Doug Johnson: Hydro power is decreasing as climate change hangs the Southwestern US out to dry… […]
Could Geothermal Power U.S. Military Bases?
by John Engel: As the largest energy consumer in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world, the Department of Defense (DOD) has the ability to influence markets and achieve near-immediate scale for [...]
World’s First Home Hydrogen Battery Powers An Average Home For Two Days
by Amit Malewar: The Australian company LAVO has developed a hydrogen storage system for domestic solar systems… […]
First Do No Harm
by Stephanie Kaza: Environmentalist Stephanie Kaza invites us to consider how Buddhist principles can help us nurse the planet back to health… […]
Aquas, A Flying Ship That Moves Passengers And Cargo At Speed Up To 200 km/h
by Ashwini Sakharkar: RDC Aqualines announced its future plan to move the design and manufacture of its Aquas ekranoplan to the Basque Country, Spain… […]