With Sesame Solar communities quickly have a clean, renewable, mobile energy source to help them on … [+] the road to recovery. getty The global market for climate tech was $13.8 billion in 2021...
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Kenya’s Samburu People Fight For Survival On The Front Lines Of Climate Change
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has advised that at least 4.2 million people in Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) urgently need humanitarian assista...
Massachusetts wind power project ‘no longer viable’: developer
Offshore wind farm. davee hughes uk | Moment | Getty Images The developer for a major offshore wind power project in Massachusetts has asked state regulators to pause review of the contract for one mo...
How A Changing Climate Is Altering The Way We Drink,” Alarms Readers Yet Offers Hope
Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink Brian Freedman Whether wine lover or neophyte, anyone paying attention to the news these days knows the wine industry has suffered a series...
How Investors Can Produce Excess Returns With ESG Investing
Investors who ignore global environmental, social and governance challenges (ESG) are exposing themselves to unnecessary risk. That was one of the main takeaways in a recent webinar I hosted titled, &...
Police arrest climate protesters over Monet painting incident
Police have arrested two climate activists who threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a museum in Germany to protest fossil fuel production, a stunt which caused no damage to the art. The...
It’s Time To Talk Turkey, La Niña Is Coming Back, And How The Ukraine War Keeps Aggravating Global Food Shortages
I hate to rev up anxiety, but it’s time to start figuring out what you’re sourcing for Thanksgiving. These next few weeks are going to fly by. Given sky-high inflation, drought pushing up prices, and ...
TeraWatt announces first interstate EV charging network for trucks
TeraWatt site Courtesy: TeraWatt San Francisco startup TeraWatt Infrastructure on Thursday announced it’s developing the first network of electric vehicle-charging centers for heavy-duty and med...
Biden awards $2.8 billion for electric vehicle battery manufacturing
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks to highlight electric vehicle manufacturing in America, during a visit to the Detroit Auto Show, September 14, 2022. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Biden admini...
Flooding in Nigeria kills more than 600 people, officials say
Flood water breaks a river bank and overflows into a settlement in Lokoja, Nigeria October 13, 2022. Afolabi Sotunde | Reuters More than 600 people have died and more than 1.3 million have been displ...
California approves desalination plant as drought hits water supplies
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (R) tastes wastewater that was treated at the Antioch Water Treatment Plant with Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe (L) on August 11, 2022 in Antioch, California. Justin Sullivan ...
Obama, Trump Energy Secretaries Agree On Everything Until One Goes Too Far
Dan Brouillette (left) was President Trump’s energy secretary from 2019-2021. Ernest Moniz served … [+] under President Obama from 2013-2017. The two men shared a stage Oct. 12, 2022 at Co...
Biden unveils plan to pay farmers, cities for Colorado River cuts
The Hoover Dam water intake towers at Lake Mead, the country’s largest man-made water reservoir, formed by the dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, has dropped 2 inches e...
Heat wave crisis in Europe grows as locals lack air conditioners
Europe is facing a tough winter, as inflation and energy prices continue to rise. The continent also faces tough decisions following its scorching hot summer Heat waves in Europe broke records, sparke...
Grid And Charging Speed Bumps Ahead As Amazon, FedEx And Transit Fleets Go Electric
Amazon is adding 100,00 electric Rivian delivery trucks to its fleet. Rivian AmazonAMZN , FedExFDX and other big fleet operators are moving fast to replace their vast fleets of exhaust-spewing deliver...
Does Global Drought Call For Geoengineering?
This summer, widespread drought demonstrated how climate change makes it ever harder to fight climate change. Think of that for a moment. It feels as if we’re living a parable. Consider China. During ...
Sorghum’s Revival Goes Against The Grain
The world appears to be waking up to the potential of an ancient grain by the name of sorghum. Originally from the African continent, this gluten free grain, also known as guinea corn, jwari, jowar, k...
What It Could Take To End Hunger In America, Hurricane Ian Hits Florida Farming And Inside Marion Nestle’s ‘Slow Cooked’
Retirees swimming in their flooded South Florida living rooms. Entire houses getting sucked out to sea. Restaurants, grocers and food banks out of commission. Tomato fields and citrus orchards wrecked...
An Investment Risk By Any Other Name …
Rain and flood due to climate change ©2022 MSCI INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MSCI To ask whether climate change investment risk is a risk worth considering is to miss the point. Whether you, as an individ...
How To Cash In On Billions In Green Home Improvement Tax Credits And Rebates
The new Inflation Reduction Act aims to arrest climate change by providing incentives for everything from solar panels to heat pumps to new windows to electric stoves. getty On August 16, President Jo...
EV drivers in Britain see jump in public charging cost
The U.K. has laid out plans to ramp up the number of electric vehicles on its roads over the next few years. Coldsnowstorm | E+ | Getty Images Electric car drivers in the U.K. have seen the cost of us...
Energy Renewables: Too Much Hot Air
ADRIAN TX – APRIL 2, 2019: Wind power in Texas consists of many wind farms, with Texas producing the most wind power of any U.S. state. Interstate 40, Adrian, Texas. (Photo by Paul Harris/Getty ...
Wells Running Out Of Water, Making Meat From The Air, And Stealing $250 Million From Hungry Children
Climate Week in New York City has me buzzing. On Tuesday at Forbes’ inaugural Sustainability Leaders Summit, I led two back-to-back fireside chats about whether modern agriculture—built on cheap energ...
Electric vehicle (EV) sales set to hit an all-time high in 2022, IEA says
Tesla electric cars photographed in Germany on March 21, 2022. According to the International Energy Agency, electric vehicle sales are on course to hit an “all-time high” this year. Sean ...
U.S. approves Kigali Amendment to curb climate-warming chemicals
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to the media after the 51-50 vote passed the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. August 7, 2...
Amazon Will Power Trucks With ‘Electrofuel’ Diesel To Curb Carbon Emissions
Little room for error: An Amazon Prime truck driver attempts a turn in Los Angeles. AFP via Getty Images Amazon, with a massive fleet of tens of thousands of delivery vehicles, will begin using a new,...
Opinion: Florida’s insurance rates have almost doubled over five years, yet insurance companies are still losing money — and the reason is more insidious than hurricanes
Hurricane risk might seem like the obvious problem, but there is a more insidious driver in this financial train wreck. Finance professor Shahid Hamid, who directs the Laboratory for Insurance at Flor...