A Month Where Fossil Fuels Fell Behind

"Non-carbon" sources supplied more than half of US electrical power in March

Printed Circuit Boards Made from Leaves and Pill Coating

Researchers have invented printed circuit boards made from leaves of magnolia trees.

Mycelial Proteins: A Little Like Mae West

In a world where the environmental footprint of foods is important, mycelial proteins gain market acceptance.

The Return of Commercial Cargo Sailing Ships

Modern, purpose-built commercial cargo sailing ships are now sailing trans-Atlantic routes

Automated Origami Paper Packaging

New machine technology to make custom origami paper packaging

When is a wind turbine like an owl?

Wind turbine blade noise reduced by biomimicry.

Potatoes for a warming world

New strains of potatoes that maintain production in a warmed climate

Commercial debut: sodium-ion batteries

What might be the "better battery" for many applications is now commercially available.

We'll get hope with a little help from our friends

In which we are reminded that brilliant people are doing good work.

Great Green Wall Project

Transforming desert into productive land.

Carbon stocks tougher than we thought

Where does carbon go when carbon goes out? More than we thought ends up in non-living material ... a persistent form of storage.

Fire Spotting

A constellation of fire satellites will be a fabulous tool to protect us all.

The great COVID-tech tick exploit

Hackers and gamers don't need to read the rest of this article because the headline says it all. Everybody else, keep reading. An "exploit" is a weakness, flaw, or hidden characteristic in a system that can be applied in unexpected — and often transformative — ways. It'

Is 2025 the year "Pumpenfreude" becomes a thing?

EV range anxiety may never end ... in the same way that you've always worried about finding a late-night petrol station when you need one.

More than enough materials for green power

Hang on to your hat. You're going to be surprised by this.

Clean energy and GDP: 2nd inning

2024 looks to set another record for clean and green technologies globally.

Clean and green: the new normal

The energy arc of the world swings towards clean.

Gigawatts more offshore wind: coming in 2025

This will blow the doors off your DeLorean.

Just ... maybe

Global renewable energy capacity continues to rise quickly.

Down under levels up with top-down panel

Australia gets in on the new approach.

Paris in the (low-carbon) spring

Have you ever been to Paris? It has been, in the past, a city known for crazy, fast-moving traffic. This was observably, objectively true. All you had to do was stand to watch the Arc de Triomphe (from a safe distance). Witness the unpredictable, circling cars: drunken pirañas circling a

Methane mitigation jobs

Jobs are transforming to meet demands of the changing energy markets.

Sunset

Sometime the best news of the day is what you don't hear.

EU greenhouse gas emissions continue to drop

The EU met its 2020 emissions goals at least 10 years early, and had remarkable success in its 2023 reductions.

China's CO2 flattens out

Chinese carbon dioxide emissions seem to have levelled off.