Environment

Joe Biden invokes Defense Production Act for EV batteries and clean energy

By Justine Calma March 31

The US can’t seem to quit Russian uranium

Biden banned Russian fossil fuels, but uranium has been trickier to tackle

By Justine Calma March 31

How switching to EVs would improve health in the US

By Justine Calma March 30

Climate campaign pushes Bitcoin network to drop energy-hungry code

By Justine Calma March 29

The UN plans to extend weather warning systems to everyone on the planet

By Justine Calma March 25

The EPA plans to sunset its online archive

By Justine Calma March 24

SEC asks companies to divulge pollution and climate risks

By Justine Calma March 21

Looming oil crisis has energy watchdog begging people to drive less

By Justine Calma March 18

Storms and sea level rise could cost ports billions

By Justine Calma March 16

EU Parliament backs off plans to phase out energy-hungry cryptocurrencies

By Justine Calma March 14

The EU accelerates plans to phase out Russian gas

By Justine Calma March 8

Biden administration accelerates plans to slash truck pollution

By Justine Calma March 7

Tesla wins approval for German Gigafactory but still has to meet conditions

By Kim Lyons March 4

Battle at Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant raises global alarm

By Justine Calma March 4

Clean energy broke records in 2021 but still can’t catch up with oil and gas

By Justine Calma March 3

Ukraine’s nuclear power plants are at ‘unprecedented’ risk as fighting continues

By Justine Calma March 2

Bitcoin mining is ‘less green than ever’ after leaving China

By Justine Calma February 28

Seawalls alone won’t save coastal cities, major UN report says

By Justine Calma February 28

What does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mean for Chernobyl?

By Justine Calma February 24

Firefighting strategies need an extreme makeover, UN warns

By Justine Calma February 23

How a high-tech twist on a 19th-century process could clean up steel and cement making

By Justine Calma February 22

Carbon capture tech is advancing in the wrong direction

By Justine Calma February 18

Satellite images show just how ridiculously high the Tonga volcanic plume rose

By Justine Calma February 17

Renewable energy growth in the US lags far behind Biden’s climate ambitions

By Justine Calma February 16

New federal guidelines could boost carbon capture in the US

By Justine Calma February 15

The EV boom is being fueled by underpaid, underfed cobalt miners

Workers at a Tesla supplier say they can’t get enough food or water on the job

By Maddie Stone February 15

Construction begins on New York’s first offshore wind farm

By Justine Calma February 14

US nuclear power plants contain dangerous counterfeit parts, report finds

By Justine Calma February 11

Engineers are building bridges with recycled wind turbine blades

By Maddie Stone February 11

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces tens of millions in funding for climate tech

By Justine Calma February 10

Big Tech’s climate goals are weaker than they seem, report finds

By Justine Calma February 9

How the World Wildlife Fund tried — and failed — to create an eco-friendly NFT

By Justine Calma February 8