River Cleanups Move to the Next Level Using Grasses and Oysters
by Katherine Rapine: In the Delaware River and other waterways and estuaries across the United States, scientists and conservationists are restoring […]
Wind, Solar, EVs, Can Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change, Says New IPCC Report
by Michelle Lewis: In the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today, there’s good news and bad news. […]
Growth In Renewables Rolls On As ’22 in 22′ Becomes A Mantra
Has a nice sound to it: renewable energy resources capturing a 22% share of the generation mix in 2022… […]
Ford Reopens F-150 Lightning Orders
by Peter Johnson: Ford is reopening orders for existing reservation holders on its wildly popular F-150 Lightning EV truck – the new models will feature an upgraded standard range, new colors, and more. There are [...]
Sunrun, Ford’s Official Charging Partner, Launches A Home EV Charger
by Michelle Lewis: San Francisco-headquartered Sunrun, the largest residential solar and battery storage installer in the US, has launched a new home electric vehicle (EV) charger… […]
Ford Secured 60 GWh of Battery Supply
by Fred Lambert: Ford announced today that it managed to secure 60 GWh of battery supply in order to achieve an annual production run rate of 600,000 electric vehicles by the end of next year… [...]
Ford And DTE Energy Announce Largest Renewable Energy Purchase In US history
by Peter Johnson: Ford and DTE Energy are taking a massive step in the fight against climate change. […]
Living Off-Grid: What It’s Actually Like
by Wren Everett: In our modern day, with cable TV shows banking off of the “weirdness” of living off the grid, the very phrase “Off-Grid” images of end-of-the-world preppers stocking up MREs and ammo… [...]
Tesla Semi Electric Truck Starts Shipping This Year
by Fred Lambert: Elon Musk announced that the Tesla Semi electric truck with 500 miles of range is going to start shipping this year… […]
Volkswagen’s New US-Made ID.4 Starts at $37,495 with Small Battery
by Johnathan Gitlin: Chattanooga is now assembling the EV crossovers with 62 kWh or 82 kWh packs…. […]
A first Look At The Technology Pushing Battery Storage Forward
As the battery storage industry is still in its earliest phases, there is no telling what the next technological leap will be to drive the market ahead… […]
As These Bacteria Eat, They Generate a Strange Molecule That Can Be Used To Make Jet Fuel
Aircraft are indispensable in the modern age for transporting people, delivering goods, and performing military operations, but the petroleum-based fuels that power them are in short supply… […]
World Could Install 250 GW Of Solar This Year
by Ryan Kennedy: Rob Barnett, a senior clean energy analyst for Bloomberg, forecasts a 30% increase in global PV deployment this year, and double-digit growth through 2025… […]
Webb Space Telescope Peers Into Chaos
Webb’s Instruments Reveal New Details About Star Formation… […]
Form Energy’s 100-hour Iron-Air Battery Is 10 times cheaper than lithium
by Amit Malewar: Form Energy, Inc., a technology company, announced the battery chemistry of its first commercial product and a $200 million Series D financing round led by ArcelorMittal’s XCarb innovation fund… […]
What’s inside the US’s first big climate bill?
by John Timmer: Tax credits, grants, and more to boost renewable and clean technology… […]
Everything You Need To Know About The Tesla Cybertruck
The Tesla Cybertruck may look like the ugliest pick-up truck you’ve ever seen, but that hasn’t stopped an estimated 1,250,000 potential buyers from pre-ordering the vehicle… […]
The Town With The Cleanest Air In The World
by Anna Filipova: In Svalbard, there’s a village where the atmosphere is ultra-clean, Wi-Fi is banned, and all buildings go unlocked in case you need to hide from polar bears – but as Anna Filipova [...]
US Postal Service Caves Under Pressure To Electrify More Of Its Fleet
by Jennifer Runyon: On July 20, the United States announced a “change of scope” of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS)… […]
Newsom Wants California’s Offshore Wind Target Raised To 20 GW By 2045
by John Engel: California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling on energy regulators to increase the state’s offshore wind target to at least 20 GW by 2045… […]
More Energy on Less Land: The Drive to Shrink Solar’s Footprint
by Cheryl Katz: With the push for renewables leading to land-use conflicts, building highly efficient utility-scale solar farms on ever-smaller tracts of land has become a top priority… […]
What You Need To Know About Windows
Did you know that if your windows are outdated or damaged, you could be wasting 25-30% of your home’s heat or air conditioning? […]
What’s in the Democrats’ Climate and Energy Legislation
The bill, dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” would spend nearly $370 billion […]
Electric Vehicles 101: Everything You Need to Know
by Bridget Reed Morawski: If you think electric cars are a new concept, you’re not alone. Until recently, EV’s drew interest mainly from a niche group of enthusiasts… […]
Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Saving the Bees
by Tiffany Duong: “Save the bees!” […]
The Cornish Farm that Plans To Last 1,000 years
by Amanda Ruggeri: Merlin and Lizzie Hanbury-Tenison are not your usual farmers. Their mission is to honour an ancient woodland, restore their land’s ecosystems and share its restorative powers. […]
Does Wave Energy Have A Role To Play In A Net-Zero Future?
by Balky Nair, Ph.D: According to the International Energy Agency, renewable electricity growth is accelerating faster than ever… […]
How L.A. Is Beting the aHeat With White-Painted Streets
by Matt Hickman: Los Angeles is a strange place. For most first-time visitors, particularly those fleeing parts of the country where the winters are frigid and unforgiving, one of the most remarkable things about L.A. is [...]
With Record-Breaking Heat, Europe Glimpses Its Climate Future
by Chelsea Harvey: Heat in France, Spain, Italy and the U.K. is exacerbating drought and wildfires and threatening human health… […]
How Preventing Unwanted Pregnancies Can Help in Climate Fight
by Robert Proctor: Voluntary family planning is too often ignored as a means to lower carbon emissions… […]
Biden Vows ‘Strong’ Action On Clean Energy
President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite dual setbacks in recent weeks that have restricted his ability to regulate carbon emissions and boost clean energy such as wind and solar power… [...]
Europe Broils In Heat Wave That Fuels Fires In France, Spain
by Robert Edme and John Leicester: Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain that the country’s prime minister linked to global warming, saying: “Climate change kills….” […]
On Cimate, Democrats And Republicans Don’t Inhabit The Same Reality
by John Timmer: In the US, partisans even disagree about whether we’ve had extreme weather… […]
Swiss Company To Build An Intercity Network Of Tunnels For Robotic Cargo Pods
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: In the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic, economies around the world all but ground to a halt… […]
California’s trees are dying, and might not be coming back
Wildfires and climbing temperatures have caused a 6.7 percent decline since 1985… […]
Shifting Sands: Carolina’s Outer Banks Face a Precarious Future
by Gilbert L Gaul: Despite the risks of building on barrier islands, developers kept constructing homes on North Carolina’s Outer Banks… […]
More Electricity From Wind & Solar Than Nuclear For 1st Time In USA
During the first four months of 2022, electrical generation by renewable energy sources accounted for over 25% of the nation’s electricity. In April alone, renewables accounted for 29.3% — an all-time high… […]
US Crosses the Electric-Car Tipping Point for Mass Adoption
by Tom Randall: Once 5% of new-car sales go fully electric, everything changes — according to a Bloomberg analysis of the 19 countries that have made the EV pivot… […]
German Lawmakers Back Plan To Expand Renewable Energy
German lawmakers on July 7 approved a major package of reforms aimed at boosting the production of renewable power, […]
NASA Shows Off Early Release Photos From James Webb Space Telescope
by William Harwood: After a presidential reveal Monday, NASA unveiled more spectacular “first light” pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday… […]
This Luxury Solar Electric Car Could Go 7 Months Without Recharging
by Kristen Houser: Deliveries of the $250k Lightyear 0 will start in November 2022… […]
Bringing Back the Beasts: Global Rewilding Plans Take Shape
by Janet Marinelli: For thousands of years, bison herds thundered freely throughout the Chihuahuan Desert on both sides of what is now the U.S.-Mexico border… […]
Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Food Without Sunshine
Scientists have found a way to bypass the need for biological photosynthesis altogether and create food independent of sunlight by using artificial photosynthesis… […]
Nature Used 57 Recipes To Create Earth’s 10,500-Plus ‘Mineral Kinds’
A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth… […]
DOE Launches $500m Effort To Turn Mines Into Clean Energy Hubs
bu John Engel: A $500 million program funded by the bipartisan infrastructure package aims to transform current and form mines into clean energy hubs… […]