Electrifying The Future: Toyota Puts Over $13 Billion Into Battery Technology
by Edd Gent: The world’s largest car manufacturer by volume has been sluggish in its efforts to electrify compared to competitors. But Toyota has just announced a huge investment in battery technology that may be a [...]
This Wildly Reinvented Wind Turbine Generates Five Times More Energy Than Its Competitors
by Elissaveta M Brandon: It could power up to 100,000 households… […]
SpaceX Plans To Fly Humans Around The Moon In 2023
by Mike Wall: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and a hand-picked coterie of artists could embark on a lunar mission within five years… […]
New York Law Phases Out Most Gas-Powered Vehicles By 2035
by Lora Kolodny: New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation on Wednesday that effectively bans the sale of new internal combustion engine cars, off-road vehicles, light-duty trucks and equipment by 2035… […]
World’s Largest Carbon-Sucking Plant Starts Making Tiny Dent In Emissions
by Akshat Rathi: Startups Climeworks and Carbfix are working together to store carbon dioxide removed from the air deep underground… […]
Is American Hydropower In Jeopardy?
by Ryan Slattery: Alarming low water levels are closing power plants and reducing production at others… […]
How Water Shortages Are Brewing Wars
by Sandy Milne: Unprecedented levels of dam building and water extraction by nations on great rivers are leaving countries further downstream increasingly thirsty, increasing the risk of conflicts… […]
The One Big Thing Elon Musk Says Could Tackle Climate Change
by Mike Brown: Elon Musk gave an endorsement for the idea of a carbon tax during the company’s first-quarter 2021 earnings call… […]
The Ancient Persian Way To Keep Cool
by Kimiya Shokoohi: From ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. In the search for emissions-free cooling, the “wind catcher” could once again come [...]
Shell To install 50,000 EV Chargers In The UK
by John Engel: Shell will install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle chargers in the UK by 2025, the company announced on Wednesday… […]
Chinese Firm Claims ‘World’s First’ Cobalt-Free EV Battery
by John Engel: Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturer SVOLT Energy has unveiled the world’s first cobalt-free battery… […]
Can Investors Save The Amazon?
By Alexander Matthews: Some of the world’s biggest investors have been linked to deforestation of crucial habitats like the Amazon Rainforest. Can they use their financial might to stop deforestation in its tracks? […]
England’s Crop Circle Controversy
by Daniel Stables: Although these mysterious formations have appeared worldwide, south-west England is the unlikely world capital of crop circles, baffling locals and farmers alike… […]
Study Identifies Methane ‘Super-Emitters’ in Largest US Oilfield
by Carol Rasmussen: About half of the biggest sources of the potent greenhouse gas methane in the Permian Basin oilfield are likely to be malfunctioning oilfield equipment… […]
World’s Largest Battery Facility Expanded
by Eduardo Garcia: Increased investments in large-scale battery storage projects will help America move toward a zero-carbon electricity system… […]
Infrastructure, Reconciliation Packages Bring Biden’s Emissions Target Within Reach, Schumer Says
by John Engel: The U.S. can nearly reach the Biden administration’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions with the approval of a bipartisan infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package… […]
World’s First Plane – Made & Powered By Hemp – Is 10 Times Stronger Than Steel
Hempearth, the Canadian cannabis firm, has designed the world’s first plane made and powered by hemp… […]
Renewables Made Up 92% Of New Generating Capacity In The U.S. In The First Half Of 2021
by Kenneth Bossong: Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)… […]
Stunning images that wowed judges at the MUSE Photography Awards 2021
by Juan Arellano: OVERALL WINNER AMATEUR: My name is Elijah by Andrea Izzotti. Izzotti writes, “Eye contact with Sperm […]
Antarctica Is changing. The Impact Could Be Catastrophic
by Kyle Almond: Camille Seaman didn’t need Monday’s UN report to learn that the Earth has been warming at a breakneck pace… […]
It Came From the Sea–Renewable Energy, That Is
by Larry Greenemeier: Companies and governments are counting on underwater turbines, submerged “wind” farms, and wave-riding electrical generators to use ocean turbulence to keep the lights on… […]
Starlight Could Really Be A Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes
by Sarah Wells: What if the universe is a giant alien chatroom, and we just can’t understand it? […]
41 Percent Of Consumers Say Their Next Car Will Be Electric
by Jonathan M. Gitlin: EY surveyed 9,000 people in 11 countries for its Mobility Consumer Index… […]
Paul Barton Brings His Music, and a Moment of Peace, to Rescued Elephants
by Mary Jo DiLonardo: The first time Paul Barton played a piano for elephants, an old, blind male named Plara was closest to the piano. […]
Form Energy’s New Low-Cost, Iron-Air Battery Runs For 100 Hours
by Edd Gent: Finding a way to store large amounts of energy at low cost will be vital if we want to shift our grids to renewable energy… […]
Civilization-Ending Climate Change Is Knocking On The Door — Unless We Act Now
by Thom Hartmann: We already face immense disruption and tragedy. The choice now is whether we want to save human civilization… […]
Harrowing New UN Report Finds Humans Are The ‘Unequivocal’ Cause Of Climate Change
by Chris D’Angelo and Alexander C. Kaufman: The latest review of climate literature finds that the window to avert catastrophic warming with existing tools is rapidly closing… […]
Has the Electric Car’s Moment Arrived at Last?
by Craig Welch: We’re on the cusp of transitioning to electric vehicles—if Biden and Congress take the right steps. […]
Astronomers See Back Of A Black Hole For First Time, Proving Albert Einstein Was Right
by Joe Pinkstone: Astronomers have managed to look behind a black hole for the first time and have proved that Albert Einstein was right about how these mysterious celestial behemoths behave… […]
Strange Behaviour Of Earth’s Core Reveals A Mystery Inside Our Planet
by Scott Sutherland: Scientists have discovered a mystery at the centre of the Earth. The solid iron core of our planet is cooling faster on one side than the other, and nobody knows why… [...]
Here’s How Much Olympic Athletes Earn For Winning Medals
by Saheli Roy Choudhury and Shubhangi Goel: The Philippines clinched its first ever gold medal in Tokyo this week, making Filipino weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz the country’s first Olympic gold medalist… […]
What Is Green Energy?
by S.A. Rogers: In the past three decades, research and development in green energy has exploded, yielding hundreds of promising new technologies that can reduce our dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas… […]
Hemp: The Forgotten Fibre
by Mark Griggs: He told the audience hemp plants produced three products… […]
“An Inconvenient Truth” Changed How We Saw Climate Change. The Sequel Wants To Do Even More
As soon as it hit theaters in May 2006, An Inconvenient Truth was one of those films that transcended screens… […]
Electric Utilities Plan DC Fast-Chargers Up And Down Eastern US Highways
by Jennifer Runyon: Now 14 utilities representing 29 states plus DC and serving more than 60M customers have joined a coalition to speed EV adoption… […]
How Scientists Are Using The International Space Station To Study Earth’s Climate
by Erin Winick Anthony: On Earth, we often look toward the sky, longing to know what resides in the rest of the universe. Meanwhile, 250 miles above our planet, the International Space Station is looking back… [...]
Elon Musk Explains Why Tesla Solar Power Is So Cheap
by Zachary Shahan: After discovering just how much cheaper Tesla solar power was compared to the US average and state averages, I was curious to learn more. So I asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk about [...]
The Second Wave Of Renewables Is Here. What Did We Learn With The First?
by Ted Page: Billions of dollars of investment flowing into renewable energy… […]
10th Annual Food Revolution Summit!
Get the latest cutting-edge insights from 25 of the world’s most trusted food and nutrition experts at the 10th Annual Food Revolution Summit (Two Day Event). […]
Michelin’s Inflatable Sails Hybridize Freight Ships To Cut Emissions
by C.C. Weiss: Beyond putting rubber on the world’s least-efficient hypercars, the Michelin Group also has its hand in more sustainable inflatable endeavors… […]
52% Of Emissions From Major Urban Areas Come From Just 25 Big Cities
by Nick Lavars: Around 56 percent of the world’s population currently live in cities, a figure that is expected to increase in coming decades… […]
Why All Women Should Travel Solo at Least Once
by Sophia Smith: As social creatures, we love traveling in packs. We organize getaways with our spouses, best friends, we take our kids to vacation, […]
Here’s Why Richard Branson’s Flight Matters—And, Yes, It Really Matters
by Eric Berger: “I absolutely believe this is that moment…” […]
Vasant Paranjape – A Saint Speaks Out – Janet Attwood
By Janet Attwood: Vasant Paranjape, at 84 years of youth, is an amazing man who today is the world’s most vocal proponent of the value of Agni Hotra, or the ancient Vedic fire ceremony, for [...]
Nanoclay: The liquid Turning Desert To Farmland
by Rachel Lovell: Inspired by the secret to the Nile Delta’s fertility, engineers are using a concoction of clay, water and local soils to grow fruits in the desert… […]