The US Department of Energy has lent NextEra Energy up to $1.9bn to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center. It is Iowa’s only nuclear power plant. Most of its power is already sold to Google, under a 25-year deal to supply the company’s cloud and AI in…
On Sep 9, Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority published rulings against Thomas Cook, loveholidays and DialAFlight 3 weeks before stricter EU greenwashing rules take effect.
Streets are for people, not robots. But what about the people the robots are serving? How to balance the conflicts about curb, charger and street use.
Alberta, a major fossil fuel producer, has implemented a new $14 recycling fee per solar panel, effective October 2026, coupled with a landfill disposal ban.
A new study shows U.S. consumers may be warming up to battery electric vehicles, but they still have concerns before they’re ready to make a purchase.
The report highlights more than 50 key ‘solution areas’, with the potential to trigger rapid and transformative change to repair the planet within the next five years.
Google Research and NASA JPL have released a deep learning model that maps methane plumes globally at 60 metres, finding about 50% more than human analysts and 23,000 additional plumes, including at 24 of the 25 largest-emitting landfills. Europe’s Met…
HSCALE has signed a contract worth more than $1bn with an American cloud provider it will not name, for a Spanish data centre campus it will not locate. The company announced the deal this week. It describes the customer only as “a significant global c…
LG Energy Solution and Seoul National University report experimental lithium manganese-rich cells retaining 92.2% of their energy after 883 cycles, achieved by changing charge and discharge voltages rather than materials. The chemistry replaces nickel …
Massachusetts has appointed Katie Schlick as its first statewide heat resilience officer, becoming only the second U.S. state to create such a role.