An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
2026-01-06 California is writing rules to limit plants around buildings to protect them from wildfires, after the Los Angeles fires a year ago. Some homeowners are pushing back over losing their greenery.(Image credit: Apu Gomes) …›
2026-01-06 Meteorologists say midweek will be most critical period as multiple states likely to experience consecutive days of extreme heat …›
2026-01-06 Companies like Kairos Power are building new types of reactors with the encouragement of the Trump administration, but their success is far from assured. …›
2026-01-06 Libby Jewett founded the U.S. ocean acidification program and had begun work on offshore wind energy. But she joined the past year’s historic exodus from the agency, the impacts of which are still not clear.By Marianne LavelleAfter spending the first …›
2026-01-06 China’s covert effort to build an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) system, described as a Manhattan Project and leveraging Chinese nationals with experience from key Dutch EUV manufacturer ASML, is not interesting because it appeared suddenly or …›
2026-01-06 It’s finally time to see what happened to various electric vehicles in the United States after the loss of the $7,500 EV tax credit, and we’re getting basically every kind of thing under the sun. Cadillac EV sales actually rose year over ye …›
2026-01-06 Cadillac did it. Despite the $7,500 US EV tax credit ending at the end of the 3rd quarter, leading to a rush of EV purchases before October and then a big dropoff in sales after that, Cadillac actually sold more electric vehicles in the 4th quarter of …›
2026-01-06 A couple days ago, I wrote about Kia’s electric vehicle sales dropping more than 50% in December. That wasn’t a great result, but more or less what was expected. The question is more about how much they rebound in 2026. I expected to see si …›
2026-01-06 I don’t know if this was coordinated in any way with the Venezuela drama, but it’s an interesting piece to come out from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) at this time. The agency just published the following report: “Cru …›
2026-01-06 The EPA budget for 2026 rejects extreme cuts proposed by Republican representatives and the Trump administration. But advocates warn that significant cuts still jeopardize the agency’s ability to protect Americans’ health.By Liza GrossIn a step tow …›
2026-01-06 In normal times, the launch of a new electric vehicle into the US market would be, well, just another EV launch. After all, drivers in search of a zero-emission ride can already pick from more than 100 models available in the US, including plug-in hybr …›
2026-01-05 Tesla will start production of the Cybercab later this year in what will be the first real world test of its full self driving software. The post Will The Tesla Cybercab Be Another Cybertruck Disaster? appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
2026-01-05 Most of the reserves in the country are extra-heavy oil that’s tough to extract and generates more greenhouse gases. …›
2026-01-05 After 10 days with only the open ocean and the occasional iceberg at our sides, sailing into the sea ice felt like crossing into a whole new realm. …›
2026-01-05 A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts through cracks and vertical ice shafts. These events have accelerated in recent years, creating strange triangular fracture patter …›
2026-01-05 The Spanish government is going down the route a bit that President Biden and Democrats went down. It is subsidizing the manufacturing of various renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, to the tune of €355 million. “The new call fo …›
2026-01-05 Jacob Soboroff was raised in the Pacific Palisades and reported live from the area as it was devastated by fire in 2025. In Firestorm, Soboroff offers a minute-by-minute account of the catastrophe.(Image credit: Josh Edelson) …›
2026-01-05 Often a question title has a “no” response that follows in the article body. In this case, it is “yes.” Tom Chi recently gave an impressive TED Talk about replanting mangrove trees with drones. He says four people using drones a …›
2026-01-05 Tata Power commissioned a 1.4-gigawatt (GW) solar power plant in Rajasthan, India, just before the end of the year. The INR 54.9 billion ($611 million) project is actually the largest solar power plant Tata Power has ever built. Approximately 2.454 TWh …›
2026-01-05 Gondolas are not the biggest type of public transit globally, but they are fun. Well, for some of us they are — I rode on one with my wife about 13 years ago in Barcelona and she felt absolutely sick and had to sit down. Anyway, they are not really …›
2026-01-05 Exclusive: From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus“There may have been a silent majority in favour of windfarms and higher petrol taxes, but if there was, these people were mighty quiet. Essenti …›
2026-01-05 Kris Mayes, the only Arizona politician to win a statewide office as both a Republican and a Democrat, is fighting utilities, industrial ag, the mining industry and the Trump administration in a political battleground state.By Wyatt MyskowKris Mayes be …›
2026-01-05 Limiting use of desflurane helps hospitals reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; the European Union now prohibits its use during most procedures.By Phil McKennaDesflurane is a common anesthetic used in hospital operating rooms worldwide. It’s also a …›
2026-01-05 When Donald Trump’s professional kidnappers snatched up Nicolás and Cilia Maduro, there was immediately confusion and a trove of questions about what was going on, why, and where it was all going to lead. I put out a few theories on what was dri …›
2026-01-05 Like the proverbial bull in the china shop, US President Donald Trump spent his first year back in office the way any twice-impeached, convicted felon would — namely, trying to distract public attention away from his relationship with the notorious s …›
2026-01-04 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. …›
2026-01-04 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, …›
2026-01-04 The US attack on Venezuela presages a strategic realignment and the end of the rules based system created after World War II. The post In Venezuela, It’s All About The Oil appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
2026-01-04 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. T …›
2026-01-04 Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disastersDonald Trump has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disaster …›
2026-01-04 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 o …›
2026-01-04 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 …›
2026-01-04 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.(Image credit: Matias Delacroix) …›
2026-01-04 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 en …›
2026-01-04 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 arri …›
2026-01-04 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. Reported …›
2026-01-03 Venezuela claims to have more than 300 billion barrels in the ground, but it is only producing about one million barrels a day. …›
2026-01-03 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 bla …›
2026-01-03 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 t …›
2026-01-03 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 goi …›