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2025-12-30 We look at some of our best stories of 2025 that you might have missed in the year’s avalanche of news. …›
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CleanTechnica→ Nickel-Zinc Battery Company Raises $30 Million
2025-12-30 ZincFive has closed an oversubscribed Series F funding round this month, raising $30 million. That brings its total funding raised to $254 million since the company was founded nearly a decade ago in 2016. The aim of the funding is to help with rapid s …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Updates: Follow The Times on a Journey to Antarctica
2025-12-30 Our reporter Raymond Zhong and our photographer Chang W. Lee are joining scientists and engineers on a research expedition to a melting continent. …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ Scientists Are Coming to New Conclusions About Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
2025-12-30 Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, others the opposite. …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recorded
2025-12-30 Meteorological office reports high temperatures across country and record measured at Seyðisfjörður in eastRecord temperatures of almost 20C were reached in Iceland on Christmas Eve, the local meteorological office has confirmed.Seyðisfjörður, a …›
The Independent Climate→ Nepal to scrap Everest waste deposit scheme after years of mounting rubbish
2025-12-30 Scheme introduced over a decade ago requires climbers to pay a deposit of about £3,000 each that they can reclaim if they return from expedition with at least 8kg of waste …›
CleanTechnica→ CATL Makes Big Announcement on Sodium Batteries for 2026
2025-12-30 Sodium-ion battery development has been a major story in 2025, as Chris Arcus has been especially eager to highlight and explain. In 2026, I think it could be the biggest battery topic. Battery giant CATL, the largest battery producer in the world, is …›
CleanTechnica→ Agrivoltaic Company Okovate Acquires Stanford University & Carnegie Mellon Tech Startup
2025-12-30 Agrivoltaics have been the name of the game in the past few years in the solar power industry. On the surface, it seems simple — find farmland that could benefit from co-location with solar power plants, and then plop some solar panels on areas of th …›
CleanTechnica→ Mexico Awards 20 Renewable Energy Projects 3.3 Gigawatts of Contracts
2025-12-30 The United States may be going backward with renewable energy, trying to drag people back into a pollution-filled world powered by coal and other fossil resources, but its neighbor to the south, led by a climate scientist, has just awarded 20 renewable …›
CleanTechnica→ How Mayor Mamdani Could Advance Solar in NYC
2025-12-30 The New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA) is leaning into 2026 with some thorough ideas for how Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani could help advance solar power and energy storage in the Big Apple. A week before Christmas, the organization rel …›
CleanTechnica→ Vingroup Signs Strategic Agreements for Green Mobility in Uzbekistan & Kinshasa
2025-12-30 Vingroup announced separate strategic agreements in late December to develop urban infrastructure and green public transport networks in Uzbekistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Vietnamese conglomerate signed a trilateral Memorandum of Unde …›
CleanTechnica→ Leading US Utility Trolls Trump Over Coal, Solar Power, And Green Hydrogen, Too
2025-12-30 Duke Energy Florida credits solar power with the bulk of a $1 billion savings for ratepayers expected by March of this year, while experimenting with green hydrogen for the long term. The post Leading US Utility Trolls Trump Over Coal, Solar Power, And …›
CleanTechnica→ Look Out For Your Chips, The Seagull Is Coming!
2025-12-29 The BYD Seagull has just been launched in Australia. This global best seller is bound to shake up the market. In Australia, it is called the Atto 1, a surprisingly simply name that identifies where it fits in the BYD lineup. It is smaller and has less …›
Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Scientists found a dangerous feedback loop accelerating Arctic warming
2025-12-29 The Arctic is changing rapidly, and scientists have uncovered a powerful mix of natural and human-driven processes fueling that change. Cracks in sea ice release heat and pollutants that form clouds and speed up melting, while emissions from nearby oil …›
CleanTechnica→ T1 Energy Gets 5-Gigawatt US Solar Module Factory From Trina Solar
2025-12-29 The era of a global free market is quickly dying, leading to a need for more and more core manufacturing within countries’ own borders. Unless leadership in the US changes dramatically, and leadership in the EU changes to some degree, and China a …›
CleanTechnica→ With EV Wireless Charging, Two Red States Make A Great Case For Electric Mobility
2025-12-29 Indiana is among the states embedding EV chargers directly into roadways, enabling motorists to top off their batteries while in motion. The post With EV Wireless Charging, Two Red States Make A Great Case For Electric Mobility appeared first on CleanT …›
NYT > Climate and Environment→ How a Research Trip to Antarctica Deals With Time Zones
2025-12-29 The clocks aboard our icebreaker will be changed several times en route to Antarctica. It’s one of many things that make the expedition feel otherworldly. …›
CleanTechnica→ Massachusetts’s First Big Energy Storage Tender Dishes Out 1.3 GW Of Contracts
2025-12-29 Massachusetts has to reach 5 gigawatts (GW) of energy storage capacity by 2030, per legislation passed by state lawmakers. To get going toward that target, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has conducted its first large-scale ener …›
CleanTechnica→ ZOUPW 450W Portable Solar Panel — CleanTechnica Tested
2025-12-29 The ZOUPW 450W Portable Solar Panel is designed for people who need reliable, renewable power wherever they go, whether that’s camping off the grid, living the van life, or preparing for emergencies at home. It’s a foldable, weather-resistant, and …›
CleanTechnica→ Consumer Reports Finds Plug-In Hybrids Have 80% More Problems
2025-12-29 The latest survey from Consumer Reports has bad news for the plug-in hybrid manufacturers. The message is, buyer beware! The post Consumer Reports Finds Plug-In Hybrids Have 80% More Problems appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
CleanTechnica→ BYD & Tesla Combine for 30% of Cumulative BEV Sales Globally
2025-12-29 Following up on the article I wrote a few days ago about BYD having 20% of cumulative plugin vehicle sales globally and Tesla having 12% of cumulative plugin vehicle sales, I wanted to figure out the same kind of figures for fully electric vehicle (BEV …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Tension on the streets, the mushroom trial circus and a devastating terrorist attack – looking back on Australia’s turbulent 2025
2025-12-29 There was no shortage of grim and disturbing moments in a fractious year. But also a prime ministerial wedding, a miraculous survival story – and Valerie the dachshundGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFires, floods, murders, …›
Climate crisis | The Guardian→ From ‘global cooling’ to ‘beautiful coal’: Trump’s startling climate claims of 2025
2025-12-29 Trump ratcheted up his questionable claims about the environment and how to deal, if at all, with the threats to itIn the past decade at the forefront of US politics, Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of unusual, misleading or dubious assertions abo …›
Inside Climate News→ How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk
2025-12-29 As its polluting coal ash ponds remain in groundwater, Alabama Power has doubled down on fossil fuel energy investments.By Lee HedgepethWired for Profit: Third in a series about Alabama Power’s influence over electric rates, renewable energy, polluti …›
NPR Topics: Climate→ Electric vehicles had a bumpy road in 2025 — and one pleasant surprise
2025-12-29 A suite of pro-EV federal policies have been reversed. Well-known vehicles have been discontinued. Sales plummeted. But interest is holding steady.(Image credit: Justin Sullivan) …›
CleanTechnica→ Two Charts, One Grid: Clean Electricity Is Getting Cheaper But Feels More Expensive
2025-12-29 The argument begins with a pair of charts that appear to contradict each other while describing the same reality. One plots nominal residential electricity prices against carbon intensity for the ten largest electricity producing countries in 2015 and …›
CleanTechnica→ Breakdown of the “FastDriveVLA” — AI-Led L4 Autonomous Driving from XPENG & Peking University
2025-12-29 This week, XPENG, in collaboration with Peking University, announced a significant leap forward in this domain with the acceptance of their latest research paper at AAAI 2026, one of the world’s premier artificial intelligence conferences. Titled …›
CleanTechnica→ XPENG–Peking University Collaborative Research Accepted By AAAI 2026: Introducing A Novel Visual Token Pruning Framework For Autonomous Driving
2025-12-29 XPENG-PKU Research Breakthrough: XPENG, in collaboration with Peking University, has developed FastDriveVLA—a novel visual token pruning framework that enables autonomous driving AI to “drive like a human” by focusing only on essential i …›
CleanTechnica→ Electric Buses Prove Their Worth Down Under
2025-12-29 Transport for New South Wales has announced that data from regional trials have proven the worth of electric buses. “To date, the 12 new electric buses in the trial have delivered generally positive outcomes, operating across 1,627 bus days and cover …›
The Independent Climate→ 40 million brace for snow, winds and rain from North Dakota to New England over coming days
2025-12-28 Forecasters predict the storm will clear by Monday evening …›
CleanTechnica→ Renault Filante Record 2025 Raises The Efficiency Bar For Electric Cars
2025-12-28 The Renault Filante Record 2025 has set a new efficiency record for electric cars, an achievement that will benefit its future cars. The post Renault Filante Record 2025 Raises The Efficiency Bar For Electric Cars appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
CleanTechnica→ More Evidence Tesla Did Push The EU To Stick To Its Automaker CO2 Reduction Requirements
2025-12-28 I know there are people in Europe who don’t agree with this assumption, but I and others have long said that Tesla was critical to the European Union’s electric vehicle sales rise. The argument against that is that the European Union (EU) h …›
CleanTechnica→ Cox Automotive Forecasts 9% Sales Decline for Tesla in USA in 2025
2025-12-28 The 3rd quarter was a record sales month for Tesla, thanks in large part to the US tax credit for EVs ending in the 4th quarter. However, that doesn’t mean Tesla has been having a good year. Leading into the 3rd quarter, Tesla wasn’t doing …›
Inside Climate News→ ICN Sunday Morning: Let’s Talk About 2025
2025-12-28 Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and reporter Dan Gearino as they discuss the good, the bad and the ugly in climate news from 2025.By Dan GearinoWhat a year: policy fiascos, natural disasters and a steady march toward a future tha …›
CleanTechnica→ EV Sales Are Booming In Bolivia As The New President Scraps The Fuel Subsidy
2025-12-28 If one is interested in the electrification of developing countries, Bolivia is perhaps the most interesting Latin American country to follow in 2025. Amidst a two-year-long fuel crisis, the Andean country has been quietly building a massive EV revolut …›
CleanTechnica→ 4 States Fight To Restore Offshore Wind Projects … Wait, Where Is Virginia?
2025-12-28 Mystery swirls over the classified DoD intel that led to an emergency work stoppage at five new wind farms in mid-construction. The post 4 States Fight To Restore Offshore Wind Projects … Wait, Where Is Virginia? appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
CleanTechnica→ Humanoid Robots Keep Slipping Into the Future, Much Like Fusion
2025-12-28 Humanoid robots have a habit of returning to public attention in waves. Each wave arrives with smoother motion, better balance, and more confident timelines. The claim is usually some version of general purpose capability. The promise is a machine that …›
CleanTechnica→ A 15-Ton Rooftop Heat Pump Is Coming For Your Fossil Fuels
2025-12-28 New, commercial-scale, energy efficient rooftop heat pumps will hit the US market within the next two years, cutting costs and emissions, too. The post A 15-Ton Rooftop Heat Pump Is Coming For Your Fossil Fuels appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›