Category: Climate Action & Science

The international festival of city making returns for Part 2 of its Ten Years Edition after a successful event in Rotterdam last May. Over two days, the festival will bring together architects, developers, urban…

I know you’re not supposed to frame directly against basement wall concrete to avoid moisture from getting into the wood. I have an area of concrete in my basement that… Source: Green Building Advisor.

In general, there’s far more concern about electric car range and electric car battery longevity than there needs to be. We’ve got a 2019 Tesla Model 3 SR+ and a 2018 BMW i3 REx…

Ford has touched off a PR war, going all-out to promote its forthcoming Fathom electric pickup truck on the eve of a major Tesla Cybercab event in Texas. The post It’s Game On As…

Three months after launching its off-grid, solar-powered EV charging network on South Africa’s N3 highway corridor, Zero Carbon Charge (aka CHARGE) has confirmed plans to double charging capacity at both the company’s CHARGE hubs…

Commercial vehicle electrification is moving faster than the low-voltage architectures underneath it. As power demand on the LV side rises and 400 V / 800 V HV networks become the norm, OEMs increasingly find…

Hyundai is set to break ground in southern Louisiana this week on a nearly $6 billion steel mill , which may become the lowest-carbon facility of its kind in the U.S. On Friday, the…

As efforts to expand energy access across Africa grow, experts and policymakers have called this week for greater coordination and investment to power food production with renewables, arguing the sector has been treated separately…

California scored a win for clean air today, as a DC court blocked a republican attempt to end the state’s clean air standards. It’s not the first time California has prevailed in a similar…

Electric cars outsold petrol cars in Australia for the first time in August. Battery-electric vehicles hit 27,078 sales, or 24.9% of the new-car market, ahead of both petrol (25,824) and diesel (23,608). Source: Electrek.

The Torcal will out-accelerate every Bentley before it, but Crewe says the numbers matter less than how effortlessly it delivers them. Source: InsideEVs.

One of the hottest, most fascinating new fields in science doesn’t sound particularly exciting: distributed acoustic sensing, aka DAS. It involves using fiber optic cables to spy on the environment, and is proving to…