Climate change is warming Europe, but scientists are also studying whether a weakened Atlantic current could make Britain colder, with Laurie Laybourne, director of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative in southwest England.
CATL’s batteries and energy management systems are already operating in roughly 900 ships and vessels, a figure that on its own should reframe how maritime decarbonization is discussed. Shipping is conservative for structural reasons tied to safety, long asset lifetimes, and unforgiving certification regimes, so deployment at this scale signals ... [continued]
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The US attack on Venezuela presages a strategic realignment and the end of the rules based system created after World War II.
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More than half of China’s new vehicle sales are plugin vehicle sales — 54% across the first 11 months of 2025 (33% BEVs alone). It seems like a blink of an eye from China crossing 20% plugin vehicle sales to crossing 50% plugin vehicle sales. The country just flew from ... [continued]
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Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters
Donald Trump has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters, according to emergency management experts.
The first year of his second term was marked by crackdowns on climate science that produced world-class weather forecasts and the gutting of frontline federal agencies - policies that have left the country, already struggling to keep pace with severe storms, even more at risk.
Continue reading...If you haven’t had a chance to learn about Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), I recommend that you slow down your reading when you see his name in the headlines. As he champions policies to uphold US leadership in the world, he works to protect our planet in a changing climate ... [continued]
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The humanitarian crisis in the south of the country has worsened in recent months, with the head of the country’s UN humanitarian operation telling Nick Ferris there is currently little hope for improvement
President Trump wants more U.S. oil companies to "go in" to Venezuela. But there are economic, historical, and climate reasons that may not be easy. Here's what you need to know about oil in Venezuela.
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Volkswagen has decided to throw a lot more buttons and dials back in front of driver’s eyes for its upcoming cheap EV. The company says it is doing this in response to customer feedback, but I’m very curious to see if customers really do end up liking this or if ... [continued]
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I think everyone expected a very bad 4th quarter for electric vehicles in the United States. With the $7,500 US EV tax credit expiring on the last day of the 3rd quarter, people flocked to dealers and websites to buy electric cars before October 1 arrived. People who might have ... [continued]
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The story of the day is an obvious one. Making sense of it is not as easy. Donald Trump and his merry gang of peacemakers, chasing the Nobel Peace Prize, have bombed Venezuela and abducted its president and his wife, Nicolás and Cilia Maduro. Reportedly, the US Army’s Delta Force ... [continued]
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Is AI a blessing or a curse? We are trying to address that question but finding it hard going. The topic is polarizing in a way that few others are. In Part One of this series, some comments extolled the technology, sweeping aside objections with a blanket, “It’s just another ... [continued]
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Regardless of the sorry state of federal energy policy today, climate action continues apace among the many US states where public servants prioritize energy affordability alongside job creation, health, and safety. A case in point is Colorado, where the heat pump business is heating up as stakeholders race to capitalize ... [continued]
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There’s a water district in San Joaquin Valley in California where there’s empty land that “can no longer sustain irrigated agriculture.” The Westlands Water District board of directors have decided on a plan for this land. They are going to have solar power plants built there — perhaps 21 gigawatts ... [continued]
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Dr. Farah Waseem can feel the smog the moment she steps outside each morning.
Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worried
During a golden sunset in Memphis in May, Sharon Wilson pointed a thermal imaging camera at Elon Musk’s flagship datacentre to reveal a planetary threat her eyes could not. Free from pollution controls, the gas-fired turbines that power the world’s biggest AI supercomputer were pumping invisible fumes into the Tennessee sky.
“It was jaw-dropping,” said Wilson, a former oil and gas worker from Texas who has documented methane releases for more than a decade and estimates xAI’s Colossus datacentre was spewing more of the planet-heating gas than a large power plant. “Just an unbelievable amount of pollution.”
Continue reading...Rivian has released its 4th quarter and full-year 2025 production and delivery figures. There’s nothing particularly exciting or uplifting about them. They’re very meh. However, 2026 should look much different. In the 4th quarter, Rivian scored 9,745 deliveries, and it produced 10,974 vehicles. Across the full year, the company had ... [continued]
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I had totally forgotten about this quote, but thanks to a reader, we’ve got a wild prediction to check regarding 2025. This prediction isn’t from November 2019 when Tesla unveiled the Tesla Cybertruck. It wasn’t from five years ago. It wasn’t from four years ago. Just two years and a ... [continued]
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On December 30, a little noticed federal vaccine advisory meeting took place in the United States. It was scheduled between Christmas and New Year’s, broken into four brief sessions for a specific reason, and focused on procedural matters within a committee most Americans have never heard of. There was no ... [continued]
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I just reported on XPENG and NIO sales in December, the 4th quarter, and 2025 as a whole. Both had great — but quite different — years. For several years, more or less since they launched, I’ve tracked the two companies and been struck by how closely their growth lined ... [continued]
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DENVER — [On Tuesday], the Trump administration issued an “emergency” order to force utilities to operate Craig Unit 1 against their will, past the Dec. 31 retirement deadline that the utilities had decided upon and their state regulators had approved. Trump’s actions to prop up an uneconomic coal plant will drive ... [continued]
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The news headlines this morning celebrated the inauguration of New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani. During his inaugural address the Democratic Socialist pledged to turn the city’s efforts to uplifting working people. That news of egalitarianism is at the opposite end of the spectrum from a recent SpaceX letter to ... [continued]
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NIO didn’t have the strongest start to the year in 2025. But it finished with a bang. The last four or five months of the year were huge for NIO. In December, NIO scored 48,135 vehicle deliveries, a 54.6% increase over December 2024. That was also a 32.7% increase month ... [continued]
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XPENG had a banging blockbuster year in 2025. It grew 126% from 190,068 vehicle deliveries in 2024 to 429,445 vehicle deliveries in 2025. Most of its growth was in China, but the company also had huge growth abroad. It sold 45,008 vehicles outside of China, representing 96% growth. It is ... [continued]
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It’s a mixed result for BYD at the end of the year. The big headline is that the company passed up Tesla in annual BEV (fully electric vehicle) sales. Overall, the company’s BEV sales grew 28% in 2025. However, that hides a significant drop in sales at the end of ... [continued]
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Tesla has released its 4th quarter and 2025 vehicle delivery data. It was strange a few days ago that the company released consensus Wall Street analyst estimates of its coming 2025 delivery numbers. I questioned why Tesla would start doing so, and wondered if it was to try to get ... [continued]
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The Intertubes lit up earlier today with news of a new, compostable “paper battery” introduced by the Singapore-based startup Flint. The new battery aims to elevate the sustainability profile of energy storage systems for EVs, among other applications, by eliminating toxic materials and supply chain complications. That doesn’t necessarily mean ... [continued]
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AI can do some extraordinary things, especially in the field of medicine. It also has some dangerous tendencies that need more examination.
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BYD is the new global EV sales champion, as Tesla has fallen to second place. BYD expects sales growth to continue in 2026.
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Europe’s biggest offshore wind developer seeking to overturn White House decision to suspend work on a $5bn wind farm project
Europe’s biggest offshore wind developer is taking the Trump administration to court over its decision to suspend work on a $5bn project on the north-east US coast.
Denmark’s Ørsted filed a legal challenge on Thursday against the White House’s decision 10 days ago to suspend the lease for its Revolution Wind site as part of a sweeping move halting all construction of offshore wind.
Continue reading...Mean temperature for year was 10.09C, surpassing 2022 record, and 1,648.5 hours of sunshine were recorded
2025 was the UK’s warmest and sunniest year on record, the Met Office has confirmed.
The UK’s three hottest years on record have now all been in this decade, which meteorologists say is proof of a rapidly changing climate. All of the top 10 warmest years have happened in the past two decades.
Continue reading...Families have been raising livestock in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia for centuries, but Nick Ferris finds that these traditions are changing thanks to the impact of the climate crisis
An average of 2.5 additional plants have been found for every 1°C rise in temperature