Microsoft recently stated that a multitude of companies needs to start focusing on continued staff education toward climate change. According to Brad Smith, President at Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT),...
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Luminar lidar production begins ahead of schedule
Luminar showcased the first passenger vehicle, a Toyota RAV4, fully integrated with the company’s Iris lidar, which is on-track for series production with its partners starting in late 2022. Lum...
EV battery firm Britishvolt averts immediate collapse with short-term funding
Charging points for electric vehicles in London, England. Jon Challicom | Moment | Getty Images LONDON — U.K.-based electric vehicle battery firm Britishvolt said Wednesday it had secured short-term f...
Climate Tech Startup Helps Disaster Recovery With Mobile Renewable Energy Grid
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...
Energy sector needs firms with mentality of Tesla to move forward: CEO
The energy sector requires new companies with the mentality of a Tesla or Amazon to push forward in the years ahead, according to the ex-CEO of energy infrastructure powerhouse Snam. “It took a ...
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...
We’ll continue to invest in hydrocarbons: BP CEO
BP CEO Bernard Looney photographed in Texas on March 8, 2022. During a panel discussion on Oct. 31, 2022, Looney said his firm’s strategy was to “to invest in hydrocarbons today, because t...
TuSimple CEO fired over improper ties to Chinese firm Hydron
TuSimple, partly owned by UPS, makes self-driving trucks, a technology that may be among the innovations to help lower longer-run inflation in the transport sector. Source: TuSimple Self-driving truck...
Oil is all that Putin has left, presidential advisor Amos Hochstein says
Amos Hochstein photographed in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 27, 2022. Hussam Shbaro | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Oil is all Russia’s economy has left following its invasion of Ukraine earlier ...
Africa’s Chance To Break From Climate Colonialism
French colonial empire under the 3rd Republic, Madagascar, Mr. Le Myre de Villers in Tananarive, … [+] 1894, France – Colonization. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Imag...
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...
EU pushes ahead with plan to ban new diesel, gasoline cars
An electric car being charged in Germany. The European Union is moving forward with plans to ramp up the number of EVs on its roads. Tomekbudujedomek | Moment | Getty Images The EU’s plans to ph...
Clean energy investment may hit $2 trillion a year by 2030: IEA
Wind turbines photographed off the coast of Wales. Clean energy investment could be on course to exceed $2 trillion per year by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. Ben Birchall | PA Im...
Emissions reductions pledges ‘nowhere near’ what’s needed, UN says
A boat photographed in Turkey. This year’s COP27 climate change summit will look to build on the work undertaken at COP26 in Glasgow. Temizyurek | E+ | Getty Images Countries are not doing enoug...
UK trial will inject hydrogen into a gas-fired, grid-connected power station
An Iberdrola facility photographed in Spain. Europe is looking to develop a number of hydrogen projects over the coming years. Angel Garcia | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hydrogen will be injected into a ...
French project aims to supply Europe with lithium
A Lithium-ion battery photographed at a Volkswagen facility in Germany. The EU is looking to increase the number of electric vehicles on its roads in the coming years. Ronny Hartmann | AFP | Getty Ima...
Chinese EV stocks Nio, BYD, Li Auto, Xpeng fell sharply amid selloff
Nio began deliveries of its new ET7, an upscale electric sedan, on Monday, March 28, 2022. Nio U.S.-traded shares of Chinese electric vehicle makers were among those hit by a dramatic sell-off Monday,...
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...
German Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes At $110 Million Monet Painting
Topline Two climate activists threw mashed potatoes on a glass-covered painting by famed artist Claude Monet hanging in a German museum Sunday, the latest in a string of prized artwork to be attacked ...
GM’s 2024 GMC Sierra EV offers electric truck alternative to Hummer
2024 Sierra EV Denali Edition Source: General Motors General Motors unveiled its latest electric pickup, the new electric GMC Sierra, and began taking reservations for a fully-loaded $107,000 version,...
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...
Bitcoin mining could help slow climate change
The dominant media narrative surrounding Bitcoin has been one of an energy-guzzling digital asset used for speculation. Institutions ranging from local governments to the World Economic Forum (WEF) ha...
Biden administration awards $2.8 billion in grants for electric vehicle battery manufacturing
Workers marry the body structure with the battery pack and the front and rear sub frames as they assemble electric vehicles at the Lucid Motors plant in Casa Grande, Arizona, September 28, 2021. Caitl...
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...
U.S. to provide millions in funding for tidal, river current systems
While there is excitement about the potential of renewable technologies such as tidal power, there are challenges when it comes to scaling up. Laro Pilartes / 500Px | 500Px | Getty Images The U.S. Dep...
New project will test the viability of large-scale wave energy
This image shows waters off the coast of Orkney, an archipelago north of the Scottish mainland that’s home to the European Marine Energy Centre. Capchure | Moment | Getty Images A 19.6 million e...
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...
IKEA tests driverless delivery trucks in Texas with Kodiak Robotics
Kodiak Robotics truck in front of an IKEA store. Source: Kodiak Robotics Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics said that it has begun a pilot program with IKEA in Texas. A semitruck equipped with...
Stellantis debuts electric Jeep, pledges new energy target
The Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares photographed next to a Jeep Avenger at the Paris Motor Show on October 17, 2022. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images The CEO of Stellantis told CNBC Monday that t...
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 ...
Sony and Honda plan to start U.S. deliveries of their EV in 2026
Yasuhide Mizuno, the chairman and CEO of Sony Honda Mobility Inc., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 13, 2022. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Sony-Honda joint ventur...