Solar Powered Cars Are Coming To Market
by Connor Long: Psychologist Paul Bloom on the importance of suffering, the shortcomings of hedonism, and why he would never plug into the Matrix… […]
If Everyone Bicycled Like The Danes, We’d Avoid A UK’s Worth Of Emissions
by John Timmer: Lower emissions and lower obesity would more than offset the added traffic deaths… […]
Europe Is Seriously Considering A Major Investment In Space-Based Solar Power
by Eric Berger: Such an initiative would require a 200-fold increase over current space-lift capacity… […]
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 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… [...]
Why the Global “Insect Apocalypse” is Concerning & What You Can Do About It
by Ocean Robbins: In 1961, mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz was simulating weather patterns in his lab at MIT when he discovered something strange… […]
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… […]
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… […]
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 [...]
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… […]
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… […]
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… […]
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, […]
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… […]
Harvest Like A Pro
by Meredith Kirton And Mandy Sinclair: There’s nothing like growing and preserving our own produce to remind us that supermarket convenience isn’t all it’s cracked up to be… […]
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… […]
Supreme Court Decision May Slow Clean Energy Transition
The Supreme Court ruling limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants could have far-reaching consequences for the energy sector… […]
“Respect, Reciprocity, and Integration:” Elevating Indigenous Leadership in Conservation
A lesson in caring for the planet that cares for us… […]
The Race To Produce Green Steel
by Marcello Rossi: The steel industry is testing new technologies that don’t rely on fossil fuels… […]
2023 Chevy Bolt EV and EUV get $6,000 price cut, start at $25,600
by Jameson Dow: The Chevy Bolt lineup is getting a massive price cut for 2023, dropping from $31,500 to $25,600 (before the $995 destination fee)… […]
Will a Nile Canal Project Dry Up Africa’s Largest Wetland?
by Fred Pearce: South Sudan is moving ahead with plans for a 240-mile canal to divert water from the White Nile and send it to Egypt… […]
Where Do G7 Countries Like The US, Japan, And Germany Stand In Their Shift To Clean Energy?
by Michelle Lewis: Here’s where the world’s seven largest economies stand in their clean energy transitions ahead of the 48th G7 Leaders’ Summit next week in Germany… […]
Alquist Says It Will 3D Print 200 Houses in a Small Virginia Town
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: In late 2021, a 3D printed house went up in Williamsburg, Virginia. The printed portion of the three-bed two-bath home—that is, the exterior walls—took just 22 hours to complete… […]
The World’s 10 Oldest Living Trees
by Bryan Nelson: The oldest living trees in the world have borne witness to history, survived changing climates and human development… […]