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Tesla Buys Entire Output of New Texas Solar Plant

Madrid-based renewable energy company Zelestra announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Tesla agreeing to purchase the entire output from...

Fatal Detonation of WWII Explosive in Indonesia Linked to Illicit Fishing

In May, a group of fishers on the Indonesian island of Biak were dismantling an unexploded shell left over from World War II when...

The graphs that helped define how we understand humanity’s impact on the planet are still shaping science today. “The Trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great...

ISO, GHG Protocol to Launch a Single Unified Carbon Accounting Standard

Standards-setting organizations the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) announced on Wednesday that they will combine their corporate carbon accounting...

US group outlines less expensive way of removing PFAS from farmlands

A US research team has proposed what they say is a less expensive — and more environmentally friendly — method for removing certain “forever...

Ban the molecule or manage the risk? Diverging PFAS policies are shaping the technology landscape, explains report

Matthew Fall, Technology Analyst with market intelligence firm IDTechEx explains more about the impact of the differing approaches to the PFAS problem, a topic...

The EU might weaken its landmark climate law — the ‘most impactful’ in the world

The European Union’s cap-and-trade system has long been considered the gold standard for market-based emissions-reduction policies, and it’s influenced similar efforts from California to...

Is it getting too hot for summer school?

Two days before the sweltering July Fourth weekend, Martina Meijer, a New York City elementary teacher who occasionally substitutes over the summer, covered a...

China’s solar industry is losing money. The country is doubling down anyway.

Cheap, abundant Chinese solar panels have become essential to decarbonizing the global energy system. Without them, the world’s clean energy transition would have arguably...

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