An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
2025-05-15 Ministers must resist pressure to relax environmental standards in the rush for new housingAlmost two decades after the last Labour government announced a zero carbon homes standard, and with the breaking of temperature records around the world now so …›
2025-05-15 The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer world would exact a heavy toll, a study suggests. …›
2025-05-15 When trees and soil fungi form close associations with each other, both partners benefit. Many tree species have further enhanced this cooperation by forming a concurrent symbiosis with two different groups of mycorrhizal fungi. Those trees cope better …›
2025-05-15 A team has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world. The new study introduces GRIT -- a mapping system that …›
2025-05-15 A new study shows that seagrass ecosystems along the northern half of Florida's Gulf Coast have remained relatively healthy and undisturbed for the last several thousand years. …›
2025-05-15 In 2024, Climeworks’ direct air capture (DAC) Mammoth plant in Iceland captured just 105 tonnes of carbon dioxide. That’s not per day, not per week, that’s total, across the year. For context, that’s less than the annual tailpipe emissi …›
2025-05-15 Smaller cars are more efficient, cost less, and have lower life cycle emissions. Should policy makers be encouraging more of them? The post Thoughts On Smaller Cars, Sustainability, & Technology appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
2025-05-15 A coolant shortage and forecasts calling for rising temperatures are both likely to contribute to air conditioning price increases …›
2025-05-15 Here at CleanTechnica, we review a lot of bikes in all shapes and sizes. But some kinds of bikes are far more common than others. 20” and 26” fat-tire e-bikes are very common in the United States, probably because they’re the SUVs of e-bikes. The …›
2025-05-15 Among the many federal grants canceled by the Trump administration are two related to the community that hosts a huge energy storage facility.By Dan GearinoThe Trump administration has canceled outright or is trying to cancel billions of dollars in fed …›
2025-05-15 China continues to dominate with over half of global EV sales …›
2025-05-15 Friederike Otto is a leading practitioner of arguably the most important development in climate science in many years: attribution science. Specialists like Otto can now calculate how much responsibility man-made global heating has for a given extreme …›
2025-05-15 Under David Keeling, a former UPS and Amazon executive, Osha is expected to thwart protections on extreme heatAs the US prepares for what could be another record-breaking hot summer, Donald Trump and his pick to lead the nation’s workplace safety age …›
2025-05-15 Emissions gap between men and women mirrors rich-poor divide …›
2025-05-15 Nevada’s congressional delegation, environmental groups, tribes and local officials see the late-night amendment to House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill as a threat to the state's water resources, tribal sovereignty and public engagement.B …›
2025-05-15 The U.S. forecasting agency was working on streamlining itself for the modern era. Days away from hurricane season, it’s now struggling to keep offices open. …›
2025-05-15 With Colorado River negotiations facing a 2026 deadline, the state wants to keep water management in its own hands, but lags its neighbors in planning to cut usage.By Jake BolsterIn Cheyenne, Wyoming, the northernmost city receiving Colorado River wate …›
2025-05-15 Before Pennsylvania’s high court, the state defends efforts to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Foes say the plan is an illegal tax.By Jon HurdlePennsylvania’s highest court heard arguments over whether the state’s proposed membership …›
2025-05-15 Moving migratory pied flycatchers further north to breed where food remained resulted in twice as many chicksHow do you help a migratory bird adapt to the climate crisis? One radical solution, as a team of Dutch ecologists discovered, is to move them f …›
2025-05-15 Democratic countries shift emissions abroad while cutting them at home, new research says …›
2025-05-15 I saw a few headlines — Waymo robotaxis were being recalled! 1,212 of them! Apparently, at low speeds, they were running into trouble with gates and chains and such. Not life threatening, but not great. But a 1,212 vehicle recall?! Ah, they did it ag …›
2025-05-15 I know many EV fans have heard this before, and most of us roll our eyes at it. Some older guy is telling us why “they don’t make them like they used to”, and tells us that his old car or truck is better than a new EV any day. ... [continued] T …›
2025-05-15 Elon Musk was part of the Trump coterie who flew to meet with the Saudis this week. The planned series of forums and spectacles was a way for Musk, who runs his own artificial intelligence (AI) company, xAI, to position himself within fierce peer compe …›
2025-05-15 European ports face an increasingly urgent mandate to reduce carbon emissions across their landside and waterside operations, driven not only by climate policies but also by local air quality concerns. The scale of the challenge is enormous yet managea …›
2025-05-15 Compared with March 2025, plug-in vehicle sales dropped slightly in both New Zealand and Australia in April. In New Zealand, 649 cars with a plug were sold, approximately 10% of the market (7.3% BEV — 442 units, 3% PHEV — 207 units). In Australia, …›
2025-05-15 Compared with March 2025, plug-in vehicle sales dropped slightly in both New Zealand and Australia in April. In Australia, 8,628 cars with a plug were sold, making up 9.3% of the market (6.4% BEV — 6027 units; 2.9% PHEV — 2601 units). In New Zealan …›
2025-05-14 Last year, the Biden administration set first-ever limits on PFAS. The chemical industry has long argued the compounds are safe.By Georgina GustinThe Trump administration on Wednesday announced plans to rescind and postpone rules limiting “forever ch …›
2025-05-14 Vermont is backtracking on its clean vehicles pledges, citing a number of reasons that sound like Republican talking points. The post Vermont Reverses Course On EV Sales Targets appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
2025-05-14 A new study found that over a quarter of the world's naturalized plant species are threatened in parts of their native range -- raising questions about the role non-native populations may play in global conservation efforts. …›
2025-05-14 A collaborative study tested 17 strategies in an 'intervention tournament.' Interventions targeting future thinking, such as writing a letter for a child to read in the future, are the most effective ways to motivate climate action. …›
2025-05-14 The Trump administration has declared litigation to hold oil companies responsible for climate change a threat to the American economy and has taken aggressive steps to fight it. …›
2025-05-14 A couple of months ago, I covered data from the US Department of Energy showing which states had the most EV registrations. Naturally, the leaders were the largest, most populous states. So, that doesn’t show us which states are leading on a per …›
2025-05-14 Now is the perfect time to upgrade your solar gear and portable power setup, to round out your mobile energy ecosystem, or even just get started with an off-grid power system. EcoFlow, known for reliable, high-capacity battery stations and smart energy …›
2025-05-14 The increasing frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological drought has underscored the urgency of studying hydrological changes. A research team has analyzed the estimated changes in land water storage over the past 40 years by utilizing …›
2025-05-14 Daré accepted the £10,000 prize for her latest novel, And So I Roar, the follow-up to her bestselling debut The Girl with the Louding VoiceNigerian writer Abi Daré has won the inaugural Climate fiction prize for her novel And So I Roar, the follow-u …›
2025-05-14 The impacts of human activity and climate change are coalescing to make coastal lagoons saltier, changing the microbial life they support and the function they play in their ecosystems, according to new research. …›
2025-05-14 A funny thing happens when a nation decides to sit in the corner and suck its thumb like a pouting two-year-old. The rest of the world continues to move forward, just as water in a river flows around a rock. The US had a robust policy in place to promo …›
2025-05-14 DoorDash is rolling out a new kind of delivery experience, and it rides on six wheels. In a major step toward more sustainable logistics, DoorDash is expanding its partnership with sidewalk robot company Coco to bring emissions-free robotic deliveries …›
2025-05-14 The E.P.A. said it would maintain limits on the two most common “forever chemicals” in tap water. Rules for four others will be rolled back. …›
2025-05-14 The humble trolleybus is enjoying an unexpected global revival, quietly returning to the spotlight in the relentless push for sustainable urban transit solutions. Once dismissed as obsolete or nostalgic, the trolley bus — now dramatically transfo …›