Category Archives: Climate
An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
NYT > Climate and Environment→ The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited.
2026-01-03 Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show. …›
Inside Climate News→ In Lahore’s Smog Season, This Gen Z Doctor Is Centering Climate Change
2026-01-03 Dr. Farah Waseem has advocated for climate awareness since childhood. Now, it’s a matter of life and death for her patients in Pakistan.By Keerti GopalDr. Farah Waseem can feel the smog the moment she steps outside each morning. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?
2026-01-03 Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worriedDuring a golden sunset in Memphis in May, Sharon Wilson pointed a thermal imaging camera at Elon Musk’s flagship datacentre to reveal …›
CleanTechnica→ Rivian’s 2025 Sales Were Meh — But Here Comes 2026!
2026-01-03 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 sc …›
CleanTechnica→ Elon Musk’s Dramatic Miss On 2025 Tesla Cybertruck Sales
2026-01-03 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. I …›
CleanTechnica→ From Soviet Fields to US Committees: The Return of Institutionalized Untruth
2026-01-03 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 co …›
CleanTechnica→ XPENG vs. NIO — Sales Lining Up Again
2026-01-03 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 …›
CleanTechnica→ Donald Trump Illegally Extends Life of the Coal-Fired Craig Unit 1, Driving Up Electricity Bills and Increasing Pollution
2026-01-03 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 ap …›
CleanTechnica→ What Would A SpaceX Public Offering In 2026 Look Like?
2026-01-03 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 a …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Offshore Wind Projects Challenge Trump Administration’s Order to Stop Work
2026-01-03 The developers of Revolution Wind off Rhode Island and Empire Wind off New York are the latest to sue the Trump administration. …›
CleanTechnica→ NIO Explodes Through New Year, 55% Growth in December
2026-01-03 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 als …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ An
2026-01-03 Our reporter sends a dispatch from the icebreaker Araon, currently on its way to Antarctica, about the scientists, their work and how he’s battling seasickness. …›
CleanTechnica→ XPENG Sales Rise 126%, from 190,068 to 429,445
2026-01-02 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 C …›
CleanTechnica→ BYD’s BEV Sales Grew 28% In 2025, But Dropped 8% In December
2026-01-02 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 …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup
2026-01-02 Problems with a 25-year-old landmark paper on the safety of Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, have led to calls for the E.P.A. to reassess the widely used chemical. …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Ringing in 2026 on an Icebreaker Bound for Antarctica
2026-01-02 Scientists aboard the icebreaker Araon welcomed 2026 with games, another time change and a soup that marks the years ticking past. …›
CleanTechnica→ Tesla Sales Down 10% Since 2023 — CHARTS
2026-01-02 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 won …›
CleanTechnica→ One Step Closer To The Compostable EV Battery Of The Future
2026-01-02 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 a …›
CleanTechnica→ AI & Its Discontents — Part One
2026-01-02 AI can do some extraordinary things, especially in the field of medicine. It also has some dangerous tendencies that need more examination. The post AI & Its Discontents — Part One appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
CleanTechnica→ BYD New Global BEV Sales Leader, Displacing Tesla
2026-01-02 BYD is the new global EV sales champion, as Tesla has fallen to second place. BYD expects sales growth to continue in 2026. The post BYD New Global BEV Sales Leader, Displacing Tesla appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Ørsted files legal challenge against US government over windfarm lease freeze
2026-01-02 Europe’s biggest offshore wind developer seeking to overturn White House decision to suspend work on a $5bn wind farm projectEurope’s biggest offshore wind developer is taking the Trump administration to court over its decision to suspend work on a …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ 2025 was UK’s hottest and sunniest year on record, says Met Office
2026-01-02 Mean temperature for year was 10.09C, surpassing 2022 record, and 1,648.5 hours of sunshine were recorded2025 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 …›
The Independent Climate→ How the climate crisis is changing an ancient way of life in Ethiopia
2026-01-02 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 …›
The Independent Climate→ Daisies and dandelions among plants blooming in winter due to climate change
2026-01-02 An average of 2.5 additional plants have been found for every 1°C rise in temperature …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Brenna Henn Wanted to Improve Genetic Medicine. Then Her N.I.H. Grant Was Cut.
2026-01-02 Brenna Henn had a long-term grant to study the genetic diversity of Africans and people of African descent. Then her N.I.H. funding was cut. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Cop30, Trump and the fragile future of climate cooperation
2026-01-02 In this week’s newsletter: From geopolitics to populism, multilateralism is under pressure – but climate action cannot succeed in a fractured world• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereJanuary might seem a bit too early …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown
2026-01-02 New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies Daisies and dandelions are among hundreds of native plant species blooming in the UK, in what scientists have called a “visible signal” of clim …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Did an exploding comet wipe out the mammoths?
2026-01-02 Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat and pressure consistent with a comet airburst rathe …›
CleanTechnica→ The Case Against Offshore Wind Is Already Crumbling (Shocker!)
2026-01-02 Oh Lordy, where to begin? On December 22, the Trump administration urgently dropped a stop-work order on not one but five offshore wind farms spanning five different states on the Atlantic Coast, citing an extremely dire national security emergency. Oh …›
CleanTechnica→ Here Are Some Crucial Climate Actions You Can Take To Protect The Environment In 2026
2026-01-02 Our eyes need to be on the environment in 2026. No longer will we accept individual guilt for climate degradation. Yes, changing behaviors is a starting place to protect the environment, but we can only achieve about one-tenth of the emissions-reductio …›
CleanTechnica→ China Built A Supercritical CO₂ Generator. That Doesn’t Mean It Will Last.
2026-01-02 China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation, and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough. The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a steel plant in Guizhou pro …›
CleanTechnica→ A Green Hydrogen Innovator In Oklahoma Has A Message For Texas: Hold My Beer
2026-01-01 Texas has emerged as a hotbed of green hydrogen activity in the US, supported in part by know-how borrowed from the oil and gas industry. Now another iconic fossil fuel state, Oklahoma, is jockeying for a piece of the action. A case in point is the Okl …›
CleanTechnica→ Chinese Solar Panels Are Transforming Africa
2026-01-01 China is supplying low cost solar panels to many African nations, including South Africa. Doing so also increases its political power. The post Chinese Solar Panels Are Transforming Africa appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
CleanTechnica→ Loads Of Renewable Energy Can Be Stored In The Air (Liquid Air, That Is)
2026-01-01 The idea of storing renewable energy in a tank of liquid air has been bubbling under the CleanTechnica radar ever since the UK firm Highview Power proposed building one such facility in Vermont back in 2019. That project never materialized, but the dre …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ From rent to utility bills: the politicians and advocates making climate policy part of the affordability agenda
2026-01-01 As the Trump administration derides climate policy as a ‘scam’, emissions-cutting measures are gaining popularityA group of progressive politicians and advocates are reframing emissions-cutting measures as a form of economic populism as the Trump a …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ A Year of Fires and Floods in Southern California
2026-01-01 The floods that struck last week just before the first anniversary of the January wildfires show how extreme weather is defining life in the L.A. region. …›
The Independent Climate→ Australian teen charged after firework sparks New Year’s Eve bushfire
2026-01-01 Teenager allegedly threw a firecracker into dry grass. …›
Inside Climate News→ Now in its 25th Year, a Historic Effort to Save the Everglades Evolves as the Climate Warms
2026-01-01 Everglades restoration was designed to replenish the drinking water supply in one of the fast-growing parts of the nation. The same effort may help save South Florida from climate change.By Amy GreenThere is a place in the world, one that is among the …›