Category: Climate Action & Science

Historic masonry buildings present unique challenges for high-performance retrofits. Here’s how one project balanced preservation, airtightness, moisture control, and thermal performance to achieve EnerPHit certification. Source: Green Building Advisor.

More than half the world’s population depends on rice to survive. But this year’s El Niño weather pattern and the ongoing climate crisis are intensifying dry, hot weather that could cause yields to plummet.

Germany’s hydrogen strategy keeps producing numbers that sound like market evidence until the subsidy structure is examined. Its latest hydrogen freight program attracted 526 applications seeking €455 million from a €220 million fund, including…

Occasionally, there is dissension among climate activists and the experts who study them about whether individual behaviors help or hurt collective climate action. In other words, if I walk the climate talk, am I…

In just five years, solar, wind, and batteries overtook fossil fuels, keeping air conditioners running while slashing pollution. The post New Mexico’s clean energy success story appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

As the climate warms, young athletes face growing risks of heat illness – especially in communities without air-conditioned practice spaces. The post It’s getting more dangerous for kids to play summer sports appeared first…

Rivian’s lovable commercial EV now makes up 80% of Amazon’s global electric delivery van fleet. Source: InsideEVs.

The German automaker doesn’t have a single mass-market plug-in hybrid in its U.S. lineup. Source: InsideEVs.

One random guy talking crazy, racist, extreme nonsense on the street corner doesn’t warrant coverage here at CleanTechnica. But when someone is using hundreds of millions of dollars and nearly unmatched social media influence…

Looking at the headline, one might think, “Wait, what? Waymo has been providing paid robotaxi rides in the US for years now.” Yes, indeed, but those vehicles have included human controls, basically being consumer…

A giant 1 GWh battery is now under construction outside Columbus, Ohio, where data center and industrial development is rapidly pushing up electricity demand. Source: Electrek.

Tesla is looking at cutting loose its China business to clear a path toward a merger with SpaceX, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. If true, it would be a massive deal…