Covert cryogenic depots, geopolitical complications, and the logistics behind Christmas Eve DISCLAIMER: This article is satire. While it references real companies and locations, SLEIGH operations, reindeer biogas systems, and covert retail refueling networks do not exist. Santa’s actual propulsion system remains classified. None of the information in this article was ... [continued]
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US innovators in the green hydrogen space continue to expand their impact on the global decarbonization movement, despite the sudden U-turn in federal energy policy.
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Many deaths and full extent of damage in poorer countries go missing from global because they are not insured, report finds
There are a couple of problems related to AI (artificial intelligence) that have gotten a lot of attention already, but that’s not what this article is about. Just to note them down, though, I’m referring to the fact that AI is often wrong despite sounding authoritative and the unfortunate reality ... [continued]
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Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at how the struggle to adapt to a dangerously warming world has become a test of global justice
The record-breaking 252mph winds of Hurricane Melissa that devastated Caribbean islands at the end of October were made five times more likely by the climate crisis. Scorching wildfire weather in Spain and Portugal during the summer was made 40 times more likely, while June’s heatwave in England was made 100 times more likely.
Attribution science has made one thing clear: global heating is behind today’s extreme weather. That greenhouse gas emissions warmed the planet was understood. What can now be shown is that this warming produces record heatwaves and more violent storms with increasing frequency.
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Continue reading...Renewable energy is moving ahead all around the world, while the US sucks its thumb and whines about how good things were in the 1950s.
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We’ve been logging a handful of big EV statistics lately, but one nearly snuck under our noses. It’s an amazing one, and it also brings us back to a years-long rivalry. But I’ll wait until the end to circle back to that. First of all, thanks to reader Madan Rajan, ... [continued]
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New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living
Most Americans now connect the worsening climate crisis with their cost of living pressures, with clear majorities also disagreeing with moves by the Trump administration to gut climate research and halt windfarms, new polling has found.
About 65% of registered voters in the US think that global heating is affecting the cost of living, according to the polling by Yale University.
Continue reading...Over the past year, the Trump administration and Congressional Republicans have waged a sweeping campaign against America's renewable energy industry. At least for now, though, clean energy is still booming in the United States.
The U.S. is forecast to add a lot less power from renewables than analysts previously expected. The potential slowdown comes as electricity demand is rising faster than it has in decades.
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XPENG’s Mona M03 has been critical to the company’s EV sales growth and march toward profitability this year. Across the first 11 months of the year, 163,299 units of the Mona M03 were delivered. That’s about 42% of the company’s 391,937 total deliveries. Now, the M03 is getting a refresh ... [continued]
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DISCLAIMER: Except for the first paragraph, this article is satire. While it references real engineering concepts and locations, SLEIGH operations, reindeer biogas systems, and covert retail refueling networks do not exist. Santa’s actual propulsion system remains classified. On December 24, 2025, President Donald Trump told a child from Oklahoma that ... [continued]
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A handful more partnerships between robotaxi companies and ride-hailing apps have popped out in recent days and weeks. Baidu x Lyft & Uber in London First of all, we’ve got Baidu partnering with Uber and Lyft in London. Uber and Lyft testing of the Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi system is ... [continued]
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Low-cost tech and joined-up funding have reduced illegal logging, mining and poaching in the Darién Gap – it’s a success story that could stop deforestation worldwide
There are no roads through the Darién Gap. This vast impenetrable forest spans the width of the land bridge between South and Central America, but there is almost no way through it: hundreds have lost their lives trying to cross it on foot.
Its size and hostility have shielded it from development for millennia, protecting hundreds of species – from harpy eagles and giant anteaters to jaguars and red-crested tamarins – in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. But it has also made it incredibly difficult to protect. Looking after 575,000 hectares (1,420,856 acres) of beach, mangrove and rainforest with just 20 rangers often felt impossible, says Segundo Sugasti, the director of Darién national park. Like tropical forests all over the world, it has been steadily shrinking, with at least 15% lost to logging, mining and cattle ranching in two decades.
Continue reading...Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting enthusiasm from investors and concerns from some scientists, Josh Marcus reports
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with “The Serviceberry” author Robin Wall Kimmerer.
The past year of thinking about climate action has increasingly felt like thinking about markets. Not markets in the narrow sense of price signals alone, but markets as arenas where learning happens, capacity is built, costs fall, and political coalitions shift. Reading and in some cases rereading Guns, Germs, and ... [continued]
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By The Waymo Team At Waymo, our mission is to be the world’s most trusted driver. We know trust is built through consistent behavior over time—earned through every mile we drive and every interaction we have with the community. This past Saturday, as a widespread PG&E outage cut power to ... [continued]
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… in China. Ford has launched a fully electric (BEV) and extended-range electric (EREV) Bronco in China. It is shutting down EV shop in the USA, for the most part, but it is gung-ho about the new electric era in China. The Ford Bronco BE comes with a 105 kWh ... [continued]
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There are many hot, fun, attractive, exciting, competitive electric cars on the Chinese auto market. However, there are none hotter than the Geely Geome Xingyuan this year. Yes, passing up the Tesla Model Y, the Wuling HongGuang Mini EV, and all of the BYD models on the list, the Xingyuan ... [continued]
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In November 2024, BYD reached cumulative production of 10 million plugin vehicles (or “new energy vehicles” as they are called in China). Just 13 months later, in December 2025, the company reached 15 million. That’s stunning growth. From 10 million cumulative vehicles produced to 15 million in just over a ... [continued]
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Most Western analysis of the automotive transition still carries a quiet but profound blind spot. China is often treated as one large market among several, occasionally acknowledged as the largest, but rarely internalized as the market that now determines global scale, cost curves, and learning rates. This is not a ... [continued]
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CATL is the largest EV battery producer in the world. It continues to progress, with the latest news being a factory under construction in Spain and restarting of a lithium mine in China. CATL + Stellantis Battery Factory in Spain The US and Japan led on electric vehicles for a ... [continued]
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Tesla has put its customers at risk by relying on electrically activated door locks and downplaying mechanical locks.
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You may be familiar with China’s green license plates for electric vehicles. They help people to notice which vehicles are electric and which aren’t. Now there’s apparently a new kind of license plate, and the first four of them have been delivered in Chongqing and Beijing. I reported last week ... [continued]
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The world’s leading battery producer, CATL, has decided to flex some of its robot muscles this month. It has revealed the first humanoid robot battery production line…. That is, a battery production line “manned” by humanoid robots. First of all, yes, these humanoid robots have apparently replaced human workers. In ... [continued]
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Leapmotor feels like “the little EV company that could” to me (a reference to The Little Engine That Could for those from a certain time period). The company was formed in late 2015 and launched its first car in June 2019, in the middle of an already quite big and ... [continued]
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November saw plugin EVs at 35.2% share in Germany, up from 22.8% share year-on-year. BEV volume increased by 59% YoY, while PHEVs grew 57%. Overall auto volume was 250,671 units, up some 2.5% YoY. November’s best-selling BEV was the Volkswagen ID.7. November’s auto sales saw combined EVs at 35.2% share ... [continued]
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By Proterra Team The commercial electrification market is entering 2026 in transition. Regulatory frameworks are being rewritten. Federal incentives are under review. OEMs face uncertainty about which compliance standards will govern their products. 2026 will be a year of clarification; some applications will prove economically viable now while others will ... [continued]
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Renewables peak as fossil fuel power generation reaches historic low, while transportation emissions also plummet While not on target to reach 2030 climate goals, state continues to close the gap SAN FRANCISCO — In one of California’s single largest year-over-year emissions reductions on record, the state lowered its climate pollution ... [continued]
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Delivering Further Dynamic Evolution Through the “Always On” Philosophy Building on the RZ 550e “F SPORT,” with its fully redesigned battery EV system and the introduction of Steer-by-Wire technology, the model further deepens the driving appeal established by the RZ 450e “F SPORT Performance.” Delivers powerful and stable driving performance ... [continued]
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Our nation’s environment, energy security, and public health is suffering, and the United States has become a drag on the energy revolution it was poised to lead. Since taking office last January, the Trump administration has waged the worst assault in history on the environment and public health. It has ... [continued]
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Incat in Tasmania has completed a battery electric fast ferry for service between Argentina and Uruguay, thanks to European technology.
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How a Decades-Long Partnership Is Unearthing Answers to That and Other Electric Questions By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, NLR In 2023, four members of Schneider Electric’s Global Research Team were touring a facility at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly known as NREL, when one looked into a warehouse-sized lab ... [continued]
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