Americans want the AI boom. They just do not want it on their street. A new poll finds most US residents would rather not live near an AI data centre. Yet the same buildings quietly bankroll schools where they cluster. More than half of US residents, 5…
The clean tech transition isn’t only about deploying new technologies. It’s about developing the people who can build, operate and scale them.
The report from the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change highlights the growing relationship between climate change and food insecurity
As sustainability costs rise, fashion CFOs and supplier finance leaders are tying climate, materials and factory investments to margin and resilience.
San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with solar farms. The $26 million Series A was led by Obv…
Sila, the battery materials company formerly known as Sila Nanotechnologies, has raised $300 million in a private equity round led by Atreides Management and Sutter Hill Ventures to expand its silicon anode manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, Washington…
AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at Zhejiang University set out the idea in a preprint called Bit2Watt, accepted to a leading h…
Italian cleantech company Circular Materials, which developstechnology to recover critical and strategic raw materials from industrialwastewater, has secured €11.8 million in Simple Agreement for Futu…
A rare bird turned up in central Brazil, or so it seemed. A photo on the wildlife platform iNaturalist showed a red-winged blackbird. That North American species had never turned up in that part of Brazil. It would have been a notable first. It was not…
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how the U.S. EV market is about to get quirkier and the bipartisan appeal of recycling.