NYT > Climate and Environment→ Federal Judge Orders Pentagon to Lift Freeze on Wind Power
2026-08-06 Since April, the Defense Department has halted all military reviews for wind projects, stalling dozens of projects nationwide. …›
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NYT > Climate and Environment→ Birds Are Dying. Clues Point to El Niño.
2026-08-06 A die-off of seabirds has some experts thinking an El Niño weather pattern is to blame, a look at data centers and pollution, and more climate news. …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases
2026-08-06 It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects. …›
From Us Archive — Covering Climate Now→ Climate Beat Digest: New Job Opportunities, Training, and More
2026-08-06 This week we’re sharing an abbreviated Climate Beat, still filled with job and training opportunities, thought-provoking conversations, resources to spark ideas, and more. We’ll be back with a Climate Beat essay on Thursday, August 20. From Us App …›
CleanTechnica→ Musk’s Mayhem Continues Beyond DOGE Into Our Everyday Lives
2026-08-06 It’s been over a year since Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) charged into the US federal government. His team fired thousands of government employees. Then they realized that so many problems emerged that they ha …›
CleanTechnica→ The Messaging Skills That Have Blown Up The AI Bubble
2026-08-06 AI is useful. Let me get that out of the way. What we are mostly referring to as AI at the moment (Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Pilot, etc.) can do useful things. The point of there being an AI bubble is not that it isn’t useful — …›
CleanTechnica→ BYD Just Sells Cheap EVs? Check Out This $216,000 Yangwang
2026-08-06 People often think of Chinese cars being cheap. There is a full blown EV revolution underway in China, and many of the electric car models are priced lower than similar options elsewhere, and there are also small, cheap options that aren’t in man …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Human-driven climate crisis fuels Canada’s deadly wildfires, study finds
2026-08-06 Current blazes roaring across country more than twice as likely to occur because of fossil fuel-driven global heatingThe human-driven climate crisis made the conditions that led to blazes roaring across Canada, which have caused toxic smoke to spew thr …›
CleanTechnica→ Climate Change Is Rewriting Europe’s Nuclear Cooling Assumptions
2026-08-06 Romania gave Europe the kind of energy-transition image that should make planners uncomfortable. On August 3, Romanian naval engineers used 180 kilograms of explosives to remove a rock outcrop in the Bala Canal, a branch of the Danube. The controlled b …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ The AMOC stayed strong even as a major ocean “lifeline” nearly shut down
2026-08-06 Ancient seafloor sediments have revealed a surprising twist in how the Atlantic’s massive circulation system works. During a cold period about 3.4 million years ago, the flow of warm, salty water from the Indian Ocean into the Atlantic nearly shut do …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Weatherwatch: Paving over front gardens is leading to hotter nights
2026-08-06 Changing paved areas to grass and planting trees can reduce urban heat island effect by as much as 1C, study showsAdd together all the UK’s household gardens and they cover an area three times larger than all the country’s nature reserves combined. …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Wars, Wildfires and Migrants Leave Europe Straining for Control
2026-08-06 A brutal summer has exposed how much pressure European countries are under from forces largely out of their grip: war in Iran and Ukraine, record heat and more. …›
CleanTechnica→ European Countries Cut Tens of Billions of Euros of Fossil Fuel Imports from Wind & Solar Power Growth
2026-08-06 I wrote a handful of articles last month on the 75th edition of the Statistical Review of World Energy. There was one more thing in there that I wanted to cover, though. There’s a chart eleven pages in that shows how much money different countri …›
CleanTechnica→ Latin America EV Sales Report: 10% EV Market Share Surpassed in Q2!
2026-08-06 Three months ago, in our previous quarterly report, I wrote the following: If costumer interest remains and high oil prices start to hit the region, there’s a very real chance we will surpass 10% at some point this year. By this, I meant I was hopefu …›
CleanTechnica→ Lucid Aims Another Salvo At Tesla’s Robotaxi Business
2026-08-06 The EV startup Lucid aims to focus more resources on its Robotaxi partnership with Uber, Nuro, and the Hertz affiliate Oro. The post Lucid Aims Another Salvo At Tesla’s Robotaxi Business appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
CleanTechnica→ More Than 100,000 Pre-Orders For The Xiaomi Sky Nomad?
2026-08-06 There are many hot new thangs in the Chinese EV market, but I don’t think any company has made a hotter overall splash in the past few years than Xiaomi. The consumer electronics company stormed into the EV market and was immediately a huge hit. …›
CleanTechnica→ Wayve & Uber Can Now Deploy Robotaxis in London
2026-08-06 The year of robotaxis moves forward, and we have another robotaxi update today. The autonomous driving firm Wayve and partner Uber were granted Private Hire Vehicle licences from Transport for London (TfL) and can now deploy robotaxis in The Swinging C …›
CleanTechnica→ Electric Mining Truck Uses Sodium-Ion Batteries
2026-08-06 Sodium-ion batteries are one of the hot new things in the EV and broader cleantech industry. They are providing a next era of electrification. That even includes electric mining trucks now! Hina Battery and Shaanxi Tonly Heavy Industries are collaborat …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Adapting to global heating: which UK public services are struggling in hot weather?
2026-08-05 As NHS told to prepare for extreme weather, strain also felt in other areas including transport and farmingNHS must prepare for annual summer heat pressures, says Yvette CooperThe NHS has been told it must become more resilient to increasingly frequent …›
CleanTechnica→ Basketball Superstar Yao Ming Receives His NIO ES9
2026-08-05 For better or worse, sports superstars often set what’s fashionable or cool in our society. That’s especially the case when it comes to cars. So, it struck me and I definitely took note when I saw that basketball legend Yao Ming, an absolut …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Butterflies Take Flight in Face of Climate Change and Extreme Weather
2026-08-05 In 32 of the countries included in a recent study, at least a quarter of the native butterfly species had moved to new areas. …›
CleanTechnica→ Study Suggests People Trust AI More That Government And Social Media
2026-08-05 The Collective Intelligence Project bills itself as an organization that is steering transformative AI towards better outcomes for everyone. In its latest study, which involved a survey of people in 70 countries, it reports “the decisions shaping …›
CleanTechnica→ Trump’s Biomass Bug Is Coming Back To Bite Fossil Fuels
2026-08-05 Despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) movement is growing in the US, with winter camelina among the energy crops playing a role. The post Trump’s Biomass Bug Is Coming Back To Bite Fossil Fuels ap …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Climate Change Comes to Sesame Street
2026-08-05 An episode this week focuses on the dangerous effects of warming, without mentioning climate change. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Progressive climate organizer William Lawrence wins Michigan Democratic House primary
2026-08-05 Activist who rallied around a datacenter moratorium will face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in NovemberUS politics live – latest updatesWilliam Lawrence, a prominent environmental organizer who foregrounded his support for a datacenter moratorium, …›
CleanTechnica→ Op-Ed: Pax Silica Could Complicate Philippine & Regional Sustainable Energy Goals
2026-08-05 The US-led Pax Silica initiative was created to strengthen trusted supply chains for semiconductors, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and other strategic technologies among allied nations. The Philippines has signaled its participation but has b …›
CleanTechnica→ The 14 Manufacturers Participating in California’s New MyFirstEV Program
2026-08-05 California has launched a new financial incentive program to support electric vehicle adoption, as I covered previously. The idea was to increase EV adoption again after it dropped from the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress ending the fe …›
The Independent Climate→ This can be an era of transformational global development despite aid cuts, Rainforest Alliance says
2026-08-05 Exclusive: The CEO of one of the world’s leading sustainability certifiers shares tells Nick Ferris why he is optimistic, even as rich countries reduce foreign aid and climate shocks and geopolitical shocks hit economies …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Italy to place all 27 of its major cities on highest heat alert
2026-08-05 Move comes as fourth heatwave of summer intensifies, edging temperatures in some areas close to 40CItaly is to place all of its 27 major cities, from Trieste in the north to Palermo in the south, under the highest heat alert as the fourth heatwave to h …›
From Us Archive — Covering Climate Now→ El Niño viene fuerte en América Latina, y estas son las historias que puedes investigar
2026-08-05 LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER La Organización Meteorológica Mundial (OMM) prevé que El Niño influya en los patrones del clima global entre agosto y octubre, aumentando las probabilidades de que las temperaturas sean superiores a las normales y propician …›
The Independent Climate→ Trump says he is rolling back protections for endangered species
2026-08-05 President Donald Trump claims ‘Radical Climate Activists’ have held back the exploitation of U.S. natural resources by ‘drastically and unreasonably expanding the intended scope’ of 1973 act designed to safeguard wildlife …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
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The Independent Climate→ Companies still ignoring nature loss as world misses almost all its 2030 targets, says UN biodiversity chief
2026-08-05 Biodiversity loss has appeared among World Economic Forum's top global risks every year since 2020 …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
2026-08-05 As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like itCan’t you leftists understand? Mass death is good for you. Reject the woke love of life! Welcome civilisational collaps …›
CleanTechnica→ Waymo Launches Robotaxi Service in Dallas
2026-08-05 As we have seen, 2026 is a year of rapid expansion at Waymo. The company keeps entering new markets and opening robotaxi service there, and now Dallas is the latest such place to join. “Starting today, anyone in Dallas can download the Waymo app …›
CleanTechnica→ BYD Commercial Vehicle Sales Jumped 149% in July
2026-08-05 In the third and final* article in this miniseries on BYD’s monthly sales, we’re looking beyond passenger vehicles and jumping into large commercial electric vehicles. If you missed our previous two articles, see this one on BYD’s ove …›
CleanTechnica→ BYD Achieves Record Exports With 124% Growth
2026-08-05 BYD had a strong sales month overall, with 20.5% growth in passenger vehicle sales overall and 31% growth in BEV sales, achieving the company’s second best sales month ever for BEVs. However, how many of those sales are in China versus outside of …›
CleanTechnica→ The Elusive Dream Of Solar Powered EVs Is Not So Elusive After All
2026-08-05 Built-in solar panels and futuristic aerodynamic styling enable Aptera EVs to run for 40 miles or so on solar energy alone, with batteries filling in for up to 1,000 miles per charge. The post The Elusive Dream Of Solar Powered EVs Is Not So Elusive Af …›
CleanTechnica→ BYD BEV Sales Rise 31% in July!
2026-08-05 The largest electric vehicle maker in the world, BYD, had a slow start to the year for various reasons, but it is popping now. The company had 20.5% more passenger vehicle sales in July 2026 than in July 2025 (411,072 versus 341,030), and 3.5% more sal …›