Grid wins and ocean warnings
California's new Tumbleweed battery can hold power for eight hours, helping the state move toward 24/7 clean energy.
Pioneering grid battery nudges California closer to 24/7 clean energy
The Tumbleweed installation just went online in Kern County. It can store clean energy and discharge it for eight hours straight, a harbinger of what’s to…
Airline leaders say reaching net zero by 2050 is now unlikely, and ticket prices will probably rise because of it.
Airline industry chiefs say 2050 net zero goal now unlikely
Iata boss Willie Walsh blames fuel suppliers, governments and aircraft makers, saying new ‘realistic timeline’ now needed
Gwyn Topham
Most new US AI datacenters are planned for areas already hit by drought, which might strain local water supplies further.
Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land
Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI
Oliver Milman and Andrew Witherspoon
Solar and wind developers just got some breathing room after a federal court tossed out restrictive tax credit rules.
Federal Court Tosses Out Trump’s Limits on Solar and Wind Tax Credits
On desalination, Japanese nuclear, and Latin American hydroelectricity
Alexander C. Kaufman
Our oceans are facing a deepening crisis from warming waters and shrinking ice. The UN is urging the world to take action.
UN warns of ‘deepening crisis’ in oceans, urges action
Oceans are in a “deepening crisis” that demands urgent global action, a major U.N. report warned Monday, with seas warming and rising faster, ice cover shrinking, and marine ecosystems under mounting strain.
Laurent Thomet and Ali Bekhtaoui
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