NYT > Climate and Environment→ How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak
2025-12-15 For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. …›
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CleanTechnica→ Renewable Energy, Economics, & Inertia
2025-12-15 Solar panels cannot add inertia to an electrical grid. For that, we need a spinning device like a synchronous compensator. The post Renewable Energy, Economics, & Inertia appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
CleanTechnica→ From HyHaul To China: Why Hydrogen Transport Keeps Losing
2025-12-15 HyHaul was supposed to be a proof point. It was framed as the UK’s first serious hydrogen freight corridor, backed by public money, supported by major industrial partners, and aligned with national decarbonization narratives. It had all the visible i …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Morrisons becomes first UK supermarket to delay net zero targets
2025-12-15 Britain’s fifth-biggest grocer postpones goal by 15 years to 2050, saying revised plan will now cover entire supply chainMorrisons has become the first UK supermarket chain to postpone its net zero carbon emission targets, delaying them by 15 years t …›
CleanTechnica→ Altitude Purchases +165,000t Of Carbon Removal From South American Partners Ecogaia & Emisiones Neutras
2025-12-15 Carbon removal financier Altitude has agreed to purchase more than 165,000 tonnes of CO₂ Removal Certificates (CORCs) from biochar-based carbon removal facilities in Argentina operated by EcoGaia and Emisiones Neutras. This makes Altitude one of the …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years
2025-12-15 Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritageEurope live – latest updatesGlaciers in the European Alps are likely to reach their peak rate of extinction in only eight years …›
CleanTechnica→ Ampersand Energy Opens Its Battery Swap Network To Global Electric Motorcycle Manufacturers
2025-12-15 Ampersand Energy recently announced a partnership to run the Wylex electric motorcycle on its batteries and existing swap network across East Africa. This marks a major step forward for Ampersand, one of the pioneers of electric transport in Africa, an …›
CleanTechnica→ Trump Is Losing The War On Solar Power, Part Infinity
2025-12-15 US President Trump’s war on solar power is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Everybody knows about his personal grudge against wind turbines, but solar panels? Why them? Regardless, if President Trump really means to fight the Sun, it’s a los …›
CleanTechnica→ If It Isn’t Discussed By Conservative Groups, Does “Climate Change” Still Exist?
2025-12-15 A December Fox News story featured a coalition of conservative groups who were boasting about ten regulatory and fiscal “wins” under the Trump administration. The energy industry players insist they have “restored America’s path …›
The Independent Climate→ Flights disrupted and construction work banned after Delhi air pollution suddenly worsens
2025-12-15 Indian capital’s air quality remains ‘severe’ for third straight day …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Why New York Has Backed Off on Addressing Climate Change
2025-12-15 With affordability and energy costs looming large as political issues, Gov. Kathy Hochul is less focused on going green. …›
NPR Topics: Climate→ Houses floated away in this Alaska Native village. Now residents want to move
2025-12-15 Kwigillingok, Alaska, has long grappled with erosion and flooding. Residents want to move to higher ground, further inland, especially after the remnants of Typhoon Halong damaged nearly every house.(Image credit: Claire Harbage) …›
Inside Climate News→ One Big, Shining Beacon for Climate Hope
2025-12-15 “Here Comes the Sun” author and activist Bill McKibben on his newfound optimism, harnessing energy from heaven vs. energy from hell and how there are no (good) songs written about fracking.Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on EarthFrom our collabo …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Tabletop tomatoes and drought-resistant roses tipped as 2026’s top garden trends
2025-12-15 RHS predicts big shift in gardening habits as green-fingered Britons adapt to climate breakdownBouquets of cut flowers will be swapped for tabletop vegetable plants next year, the Royal Horticultural Society has said, as the UK charity announces its to …›
CleanTechnica→ Two Driverless Teslas Testing In Austin Caught On Camera
2025-12-15 A few days ago, I reported on Elon Musk’s statement that driverless Tesla robotaxis without human safety monitors would be on the road in Austin, Texas, within a few weeks — just before the end of 2025. Well, earlier today, two such vehicles we …›
CleanTechnica→ Assessing Global Progress 10 Years After Paris Climate Accords
2025-12-15 The latest climate research finds there is still a chance of keeping global heating to 1.5 degrees C by the end of this century. The post Assessing Global Progress 10 Years After Paris Climate Accords appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
CleanTechnica→ Heads Explode As Tesla CEO Declares The Womb Makes The Woman
2025-12-15 As if the latest news about Tesla sales isn’t bad enough, here comes Tesla CEO Elon Musk to throw more gasoline on the dumpster fire — by evoking the gender gap, no less. “If you have a womb, you are a woman. Otherwise, you are not,&# …›
CleanTechnica→ Tesla’s 8-Year Model Sales Trends in 11 European Countries
2025-12-14 I recently dove into EV sales trends across auto groups and auto brands in 13 European markets (combined) using charts and data from EU-EVs.com. I’ve used the site off and on for years. I rely more on José’s comprehensive European EV sales …›
CleanTechnica→ Plugin Vehicles Pass 75 Million Cumulative Sales!
2025-12-14 One of our data-tracking, EV-focused readers, Madan Rajan, notified me this weekend of a big milestone. Cumulative plugin vehicle sales have surpassed 75 million units. He points out that we were at 74.3 million cumulative plugin vehicle sales at the e …›
CleanTechnica→ The Oilfield Binge & Purge: Another Reason To Ditch Fossil Fuels
2025-12-14 The US state of Oklahoma is Exhibit A in the case for the renewable energy transition. Oklahoma has done a good job of exploiting its wind energy resources, but its deep roots in the oil and gas industry keep popping up to haunt its people with pollute …›
CleanTechnica→ OpenAI Pushing Propaganda Over Research, Researchers Who Quit Argue
2025-12-14 As with any “new tech,” there’s a lot of hype and dreams and enthusiasm about what kind of wonderful future the tech can bring. However, there are also inevitably negative ramifications, side effects, and bad things people and compani …›
CleanTechnica→ Huge Changes in Auto Group Share of European EV Sales
2025-12-14 Looking at sales data year by year, or month by month, it can be hard to really notice significant long-term trends. However, stepping back and looking at a chart that covers several years, you can spot some quite interesting things. I recently did thi …›
CleanTechnica→ Hyundai & Kia Prove Me Right? Fall to China in Western Europe
2025-12-13 I’ve said it for a decade — Hyundai and Kia develop great electric vehicles, but they don’t try hard enough to produce them at high volumes and market them aggressively. I’m by far from the only one saying this. Going back to the Ki …›
CleanTechnica→ Data Center Opponents Push Back Against “Superhuman” AI
2025-12-13 The rush to build more and bigger data centers to power the AI revolution is getting pushback from an array of opponents in the US. The post Data Center Opponents Push Back Against “Superhuman” AI appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
CleanTechnica→ Electricity Scarcity Meets Aluminum Tariffs, and American Citizens Pick Up the Bill
2025-12-13 A collision between AI data centers being built—in the current AI bubble and with full throated support by the Trump Administration—and aluminum smelters for electricity is no longer theoretical. Utilities across the United States are facing bindin …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Carbon capture was spruiked as a way of limiting our emissions – but has Australia been greenwashed?
2025-12-13 Despite billions in investment and backing from the federal government, carbon capture and storage technology ‘should be in no way treated as a climate solution’, critics sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking new …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back.
2025-12-13 A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over public health. …›
CleanTechnica→ BMW May Finally Do What Auto Industry Has Needed For Decades
2025-12-13 BMW has filed a patent that could be a huge deal. Though, it would need to be implemented, and it would also need consumer buy-in. Here’s a shocking statistic for you: Approximately 30% of deaths caused by traffic accidents in the US each year in …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Reporting on Arctic Sovereignty in the Polar Bear Capital of the World
2025-12-13 Global competition in the Arctic is raising hopes of a revival in the town of Churchill. We went to meet the people, and the bears, there. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ ‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement
2025-12-13 The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurableTen years on from the historic Paris climate summit, which ended with the world’s first and only global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emiss …›
CleanTechnica→ Donald Trump’s AI Order Could Cost Iowans & Georgians Big Time
2025-12-13 Yesterday, I covered Donald Trump’s latest effort to pretend he’s king and violate states’ rights, an AI executive order. (Apologies if he’s already tried to act like king in some other way and I’ve missed that.) The execu …›
CleanTechnica→ NLR Analysis Identifies Reservoir Thermal Energy Storage as a Solution for Data Center Cooling Needs
2025-12-13 RTES System Cuts Energy Consumption and Costs Over a Simulated 20-Year Period By Hannah Halusker, NLR The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. …›
CleanTechnica→ New Report Illuminates Geothermal Cooling Potential in Hawaii
2025-12-13 University of Hawaii at Manoa and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Teamed up To Analyze Feasibility of Geothermal Cooling Technologies By Justin Daugherty, NLR In areas with geologically recent volcanic activity and ample underground water flow, l …›
CleanTechnica→ She Wanted To Write Fantasy. Now, She Is Rewriting Recycling.
2025-12-13 Meet Taylor Uekert, the Gymnast-Turned-Nanoengineer Who Harnesses Molecular Machines To Remake Plastics, Chemicals, and More By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, NLR Three days after 9-year-old Taylor Uekert moved to the foothills outside San Diego, her pare …›
CleanTechnica→ Wind Power Gets The Last Laugh As Trump Fades Into The Mists Of Twilight
2025-12-13 US President Donald Trump began his war against offshore wind turbines with a bang in January, but the writing of defeat is already on the wall. Despite his efforts here in the US, the domestic offshore wind industry is not an entirely lost cause, and …›
CleanTechnica→ Waymo Boasts “Exponential Scaling”
2025-12-13 A few weeks ago, Waymo announced that it was beginning operations, slowly and carefully, in five more cities. This week, the company announced that service is now fully autonomous and underway 24/7 in Orlando, Florida, and San Antonio, Texas. Hey there …›
CleanTechnica→ Zoox Becomes Robotaxi Partner for T-Mobile Arena
2025-12-13 For years upon years, we’ve had the Waymo vs. Tesla robotaxi debate. Who will win in the end? However, almost out of nowhere, Zoox has jumped in and joined the party. And, let’s be honest, kicking things off in Las Vegas, it’s partyin …›
CleanTechnica→ XPENG Looking to Start EV Production in Malaysia
2025-12-12 XPENG reportedly told press in Malaysia that it is in negotiations with EP Manufacturing Bhd to get EV production underway in Malaysia. Mass production is supposed to begin at some point in 2026. The focus is not just on producing cars for Malaysia, bu …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ The path of least emissions: how to take a sustainable holiday this summer
2025-12-12 While it’s impossible to escape the emissions associated with flying, some travel methods are more carbon-intensive than othersChange by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon foot …›
Inside Climate News→ Green California’s Big Oil Problem
2025-12-12 While Gov. Newsom touted the state’s environmental efforts at the UN climate summit, toxic spills and a new law speeding drilling tarnished its reputation at home.By Liza GrossThousands of gallons of oil and toxic wastewater poured out of a pipe runn …›