Environment
EVs are billed as the upcoming. But a potential capabilities hole is sparking fears about expense and protection
A mechanic performing on an electrical auto at a garage in Carquefou, France, in November 2022. The EU is on the lookout to increase the number of EVs on its streets in the coming decades. Loic Venance | AFP | Getty Photographs From seatbelts to airbags and radios to parking sensors, present day automobiles are […]
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Energy organization announces entire world 1st as its tidal electricity job hits important milestone
This impression, from 2017, shows one particular of the MeyGen project’s tidal stream turbines. The MeyGen array has a overall of 4 turbines. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Illustrations or photos The rising tidal power sector appears to have taken an additional action forward — an Edinburgh-headquartered company claimed Monday that its project experienced […]
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See the photos that won National Geographic’s ‘Pictures of the Year’ contest
National Geographic announced the winning photographs from its first “Pictures of the Year” photo competition. The contest, which opened to U.S. residents in early December, invited readers to submit a digital photograph in one of four categories: nature, people, places and animals. The contest required that photographs be largely unaltered. According to the rules, “only […]
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Meet the GOP leaders in charge of critical House environmental committees
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Following the midterm elections in November, President Joe Biden faces a GOP-controlled House of Representatives largely opposed to the administration’s climate change and clean energy policies and efforts to curb the country’s dependence on fossil fuel […]
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Air Force’s aging E-3 Sentry stirs questions of airborne-battle readiness
As the recent Chinese spy balloon encounter showed, keeping the skies safe is a tough job. For decades the U.S. Air Force has relied on the E-3 Sentry, and the most recent version, the E-3G, has been upgraded with more modern electronics and software to keep up with new threats. ‘The best way to describe […]
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Newsom unveils bill to protect California’s climate-threatened Joshua tree
A Joshua tree found along Highway 178 (Isabella Walker Pass Road near Highway 14) is viewed on November 14, 2022, near Inyokern, California. George Rose | Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week proposed for the first time a bill that would protect the western Joshua tree, a native desert plant, and prohibit anyone […]
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Fb co-founder Moskovitz money study into cooling the earth with sunlight reflection
This photograph taken on Might 11, 2022 demonstrates Shivaram, a villager strolling via the cracked bottom of a dried-out pond on a scorching summer time working day at Bandai village in Pali district. – Each and every working day dozens of villagers, mostly ladies and little ones, wait around with blue plastic jerry cans and […]
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There’s a buzz about green hydrogen. But pink, produced using nuclear, may have a huge role to play too
Both pink and blue have been used to differentiate between different methods of hydrogen production. Eve Livesey | Moment | Getty Images From Tesla’s Elon Musk to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the past few years have seen many high-profile names talk about the role hydrogen may — or may not — play […]
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‘Greenwashing’ is a good thing, according to one renewable energy tycoon
Greenwashing should be seen as a positive sign that companies are moving in the right direction, according to the founder of British energy firm Ecotricity. “It’s everywhere,” Dale Vince told CNBC’s Tania Bryer. “But you know, I take it as a good thing. People say to me, ‘oh, there’s greenwashing, it’s a bad thing’.” “And […]
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Biden administration moves toward approval for major Alaska oil drilling project
Alaskan oil extraction site. Lowell Georgia | Getty Images The Biden administration on Wednesday recommended a scaled-down version of a major oil drilling project in the North Slope of Alaska, taking a step toward approving the $8 billion Willow plan that climate groups have long condemned. The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management released an […]
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