Energy & Environment
- US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock
- Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
- Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
- The moral panic over data centres is foolish
- Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says
- 'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres
- Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
- Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022
- Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
- US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons
- Oceans hit highest temperature on record
- Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests
- Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
- Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
- Buy Your Friends Batteries
- St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
- Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
- Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves
- In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices
- Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse
- Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf
- 5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe
- Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
- $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf
- Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
- Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
- Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)
- Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
- New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
- The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate
- US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
- Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built
- Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
- No Data Centers in My Backyard
- Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
- Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
- Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow
- Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant
- A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return
- So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂
- Europe's fires are just the start
- Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
- Should you wash your solar panels?
- The Strongest El Niño Ever
- French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
- Show HN: I mapped every US golf course
- GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage
- Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota
- LEDs’ potential to save our night skies
- US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again
- Americans are angry about data centers. Politicians are feeling the pressure
- Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years
- 'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'
- Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy
- Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning
- Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B
- Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity
- Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
- A graph that should be front-page news
- Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
- Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France
- FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky
- What's slowing down the AI buildout
- GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
- Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
- Europe's new climate in seven charts
- The bottleneck might be the air in the room
- US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials
- EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on
- County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'
- Antares achieves criticality of Mark-0 reactor
- The Radiation Exposure Lie
- 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
- Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner
- Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
- Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
- Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
- Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use
- TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants
- Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
- How Alberta Eradicated Rats
- Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri
- US battery manufacturing output continues to break records
- CrankGPT
- A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown
- Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
- BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada
- Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
- Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
- Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests
- New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
- Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition
- Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
- U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse
- If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?
- Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers
- Naphtha shortages in Japan
- Lombardy increases charges for the construction of data centres in green areas
- Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country
- Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now
- Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
- Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling
- India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark
- Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
- Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
- USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought
- 50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers
- Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track
- Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI
- Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets
- Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down
- David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
- California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply
- The map that keeps Burning Man honest
- UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing
- Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens
- 'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level
- Heat pump sales rise across Europe
- Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security
- AI uses less water than the public thinks
- How an oil refinery works
- Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
- Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years
- New gas-powered data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than whole nations
- Chernobyl wildlife forty years on
- America's Geothermal Breakthrough
- New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production
- 3.4M Solar Panels
- As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating
- Fusion Power Plant Simulator
- IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
- 40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal
- For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas
- In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue
- Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal
- Helium is hard to replace
- 12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)
- Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?
- Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026
- Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer to energy shocks
- Solar and batteries can power the world
- Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
- Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs
- Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics
- Solar is winning the energy race
- South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots
- Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
- Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing
- ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
- Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range
- Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
- Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
- Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call
- Chest Fridge (2009)
- How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps
- Italy, Belgium set to lose gas supply after biggest LNG plant bombed
- BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers
- Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout
- Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields
- Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
- A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine
- Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn
- Rack-mount hydroponics
- Oil is near a price that hurts the economy
- Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
- Global warming has accelerated significantly
- Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood
- US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters
- NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]
- Does that use a lot of energy?
- The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster
- California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
- The guide to real-world EV battery health
- Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study
- A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine
- CATL expects oceanic electric ships in three years
- Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk
- Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time
- California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month
- Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
- Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
- French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution
- Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions
- East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming
- In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month
- China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide
- Did "Big Oil" Sell Us on a Recycling Scam?
- 2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities
- 'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity
- What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested
- Glubux's Powerwall (2016)
- Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025
- The Last Drops of Mexico City
- Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt
- Nuclear fusion: it's time for a reality check
- HD Hyundai set to debut production 14 ton hydrogen wheeled excavator
- AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint
- I got a heat pump and my energy bill went up
- Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
- Device uses wind to create ammonia out of air
- Lightcell: An engine that uses light to make electricity
- Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third
- Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?
- The case for letting Malibu burn (1995)
- Two fire experts interviewed about L.A. wildfires
- World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
- A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
- LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed
- University of Alabama Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics
- In Colorado, a marriage of solar energy and farming
- China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025
- Three-quarters of the land is drying out, 'redefining life on Earth'
- WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States
- Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?
- Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential
- Ten Thousand Years
- Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
- OpenERV
- A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects
- Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires
- China completes green belt around Taklamakan Desert
- Oldest known wild bird lays egg at 74
- Ukraine's three nuclear power plants have restored electricity production
- AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells
- Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant
- BYD launches sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product
- Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment
- A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022)
- The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
- Five Companies Produce Nearly 25 Percent of All Plastic Waste Worldwide
- Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
- Fusion power is getting closer
- 'Thirsty' ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought
- Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after Klamath River dam removal
- Mechanically strong yet metabolizable plastic breaks down in seawater
- Which power plant does my electricity come from?
- Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
- The price of shutting down coal power, and what would be gained
- MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical
- U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050
- Did scientists revive an extinct animal or just breed a less stripey zebra?
- California's gas prices to increase 65 cents per gallon with new fuel standards
- The Weeds Are Winning
- Sustainable Web Interest Group Is Formed
- AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation
- USFS decision to halt prescribed burns in California is history repeating
- Cheap solar panels are changing the world
- Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint: Oxfam
- Nuclear Fusion's New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator
- All the electricity you'll need for 40 years
- We Can Terraform the American West
- In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice
- The Forest Service Is Losing 2,400 Jobs–Including Most of Its Trail Workers
- USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas
- Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia
- Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails
- One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
- Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres
- Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022)
- Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power
- Scientists successfully breed corals to improve their heat tolerance
- Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment
- Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel
- An e-waste dumping ground
- Taiwan is heading toward an energy crunch?
- CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017)
- 'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid
- Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws
- Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'
- Unplanned exposure during diving in the spent nuclear fuel pool (2011)
- Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017)
- Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
- Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
- Almost all new car sales in Norway last month were EVs
- 20% more powerful perovskite solar panels enter commercial use
- Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents first increases lifespan by 50%
- Swimmable Cities
- In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat
- Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid
- The Engineering of Landfills
- Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid
- Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality
- AirTags key to discovery of Houston's plastic recycling deception
- Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen
- Can solar costs keep shrinking?
- Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power
- Why fans of nuclear are a problem today
- Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid
- Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore
- The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
- What if Germany had invested in nuclear power?
- All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)
- An open-source flow battery kit
- China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal
- Samsung to Mass-Produce Solid-State Batteries for 'Super Premium' EVs
- DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems
- Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?
- How to debug your battery design
- Decline of Indian vultures
- Pongamia trees grow where citrus once flourished
- We've built the Ultimate e-Bike Battery that you can Repair and Refill
- Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park
- Multisatellite data depicts a record-breaking methane leak from a well blowout
- A New Specialized Train Is Ready to Haul Nuclear Waste
- California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries
- Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
- Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian farmed salmon annually
- For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
- Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy
- First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
- Volcanoes can affect climate
- Harvester pulls 1.5 gallons of drinking water from arid air per day
- The EU should be the heat-pump pioneer
- The War on Estonian Forests (2022)
- Batteries: How cheap can they get?
- Analyzing my electricity consumption
- Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand
- Eating meat with lower carbon footprint often means killing more animals
- Cities need more trees
- Pumped-storage hydroelectricity
- The Rhisotope Project: Insertion of radioisotopes into live rhinoceros
- Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on farming
- Will we ever get fusion power?
- One Year Since Germany's Nuclear Exit: Renewables Expand, Fossil Fuels Reduced
- Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat
- Researchers invent 100% biodegradable 'barley plastic'
- US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication
- Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off
- US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban
- Solar generates fifth of global electricity on summer solstice midday peak
- HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma
- How to prolong lithium based batteries
- The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling
- U.S. Senate passes bill to support advanced nuclear energy deployment
- Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
- TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough
- How innovative is China in nuclear power?
- The state of carbon dioxide removal
- Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records
- 40 out of 60 German climate greening endavours fraudulent
- Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
- The American West is figuring out how to keep cool
- Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world
- Potential ozone depletion from satellite demise during atmospheric reentry
- Decade of the Battery
- Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a trend
- Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals
- Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi
- Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts
- The aging U.S. power grid is about to get a jolt
- The regenerative urban garden I: No-till gardening
- 85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plastics
- Fusion tech finds geothermal energy application
- A robot will soon try to remove melted nuclear fuel from Fukushima reactor
- California is about to side with PG&E – again – to kill community solar projects
- Japan's clothes-drying bathrooms
- Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago
- Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges
- Shipbreaking
- Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources
- Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant: Finished in 1978 but never used
- Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows
- Students invent quieter leaf blower
- Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years
- Germany solar power output jumps to record highs
- The First Nuclear Microreactor Company Listed in the USA
- The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed
- Small reactors don't add up as a viable energy source
- Brazil's catastrophic weather spawns spate of conspiracy theories
- Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
- A skeptic's take on beaming power to Earth from space
- The world has probably passed peak pollution
- Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger
- The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year
- Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?"
- Let insects eat your plants
- A company is building a giant compressed-air battery in the Australian outback
- Vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites
- Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
- Georgia Tech, Meta create open dataset to advance solutions for carbon capture
- Gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food
- Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs
- The drinking fountain button
- Burn After Wearing
- How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US
- Our biggest ever river catch?
- Guy Callendar, the engineer who discovered human-caused global warming
- California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
- Getting the Grid to Net Zero
- EU data shows PHEVs emit 350% more CO2 than tested values
- Show HN: My $1k self-install, off-grid solar backup build for renters
- An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data
- Roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cells under ambient room conditions
- BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery – more range and even lower cost
- Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations [video]
- US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage
- Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas
- Bradford pear trees banned in few states – More are looking to eradicate them
- Does America suddenly have a record number of bees?
- How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of the Jedi' was obliterated (2022)
- The Canadian government's plan to plant two billion trees
- Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'
- A near 100pct renewable grid for Australia is feasible and affordable
- As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate
- Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products
- Germany's solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
- Filling Nuclear Power's $5T Hole Is Beyond the Banks
- Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months
- Indonesia's e-bike shops are building their own batteries
- Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years
- How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater
- The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come
- Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
- Giant sequoias are a rapidly growing feature of the UK landscape
- Weather forecasts have become more accurate
- EV Charging Points in America Are Finally Making Money
- Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat
- Controlling 3.6kW of Solar EV Charging with an Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi
- The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I
- Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion
- Fishing for oil and meat drives defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays
- AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania
- PG&E claims no connection between rate increases and $2.2B jump in earnings
- Nearly all of California's reservoir's are above their historical averages
- Avoiding fusion plasma tearing instability with deep reinforcement learning
- Old vs. new growth trees and the wood products they make
- The lithium-ion battery may not be the best bet for EVs
- Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap
- EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030
- European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies
- Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5°C
- Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)
- What a major solar storm could do
- Xkcd: Greenhouse Effect
- Profiteering hampers U.S. grid expansion
- Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history
- Selfish reasons to want more humans
- Plastic experts say recycling is a scam. Should we even do it anymore?
- The Earth is getting greener
- Plastic is taking over farms
- Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough
- Biologists discover four new octopus species
- The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US
- How much electricity does AI consume?
- Solar and battery to make up 81% of new US electric-generating capacity in 2024
- Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
- 525 Private jets departed Las Vegas after the Super Bowl ended
- What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer
- The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
- 28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
- Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power
- Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps
- World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
- Europe's deepest mine to become giant gravity battery
- States, including CA and NY, sign heat pump memorandum
- EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend
- Making steel without emitting CO2
- The perverse policies that fuel wildfires
- Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming
- We've already seen category 6 hurricanes – scientists want to make it official
- Plastic bag bans work
- Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry
- Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goes to Bitcoin
- Crime rings trafficking sand
- Harvesting electricity from high-voltage transmission lines using fences
- Solid-state EV batteries now face "production hell"
- Solar is a market for (financial) lemons
- I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
- Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use
- As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California
- The rise of batteries in six charts
- Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds
- Helium is essential but nonrenewable and difficult to recycle
- US government opens 22M acres of federal lands to solar
- Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
- Some U.S. cities are banning gas-powered leaf blowers
- Flying kites deliver container-sized power generation
- We have surpassed 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries that sustain human life (2023)
- "Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans
- Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission
- Harnessing heat from wastewater
- Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video]
- A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest
- Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
- Solar will supply almost all growth in U.S. electricity generation through 2025
- A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
- Bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared
- GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, providing 2.4 GW of power
- Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)
- Tuna species popular in sashimi and poke bowls in sharp decline
- Heat pump users noticing cheaper bills and warmer homes – study
- How the first fourth-generation nuclear power plant works
- First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power
- AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea
- Are roads the biggest driver of ecological destruction?
- Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe (2023)
- What it will take to unleash the potential of geothermal power? (2021)
- Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (2016)
- UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector
- Strawberry case study: What if farmers had to pay for water?
- Nuclear power gets new push in U.S., winning converts (2022)
- 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free
- First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
- Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward
- Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations
- UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions
- All I want for Christmas is 1TW of solar deployed annually
- Can flow batteries finally beat lithium?
- America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"
- Germany hits 80 GW milestone
- Should we tell people it's too late to save civilization?
- The Limits to Growth (1972)
- US utility firms offer builders cash/trips to fit new homes with gas appliances
- Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, report finds
- New UK record for wind power set today – 21.81 GW between 0900-0930 GMT
- California regulators vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open 5 more years
- Record global temperatures and U.S. billion-dollar disasters
- Desalination can beat batteries for excess energy
- US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving 'ignition' over and over
- Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies
- Solar and wind to top coal power in US for first time in 2024
- Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?
- Ask HN: Assuming this 2023 LtG paper is correct, how do you prepare?
- Methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm
- Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular?
- Texas officials warn of rolling blackouts to ease strain on power grid
- Bidding error sees Finnish day-ahead power price tumble
- Large amounts of carbon capture as a solution is an 'illusion'
- Giant batteries drain economics of gas power plants
- Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery validated at 160 Wh/kg
- Earth likely briefly passed critical warming threshold on Friday and Saturday
- U.S. agency declares 21 species now extinct
- Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution
- Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?
- Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected
- 'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months
- Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
- Sweden plans new nuclear reactors by 2035, will share costs
- Rolls-royce confirms all of its current engines can run on 100 percent SAF
- U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game
- Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says
- Ultra-white ceramic cools buildings with high reflectivity
- A Lot of Damage in Grindavík
- To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again
- The first commercial carbon-sucking facility in the US opens in California
- Gigantic heat caverns in Mustikkamaa have now been filled with water (2021)
- Olive oil soars, and thieves go after century-old trees in the Mediterranean
- First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled
- Oil and gas production in Texas produces twice as much methane as in New Mexico