Climate & Energy
Climate feedback loops, the energy transition, and the cascading consequences of a warming world.
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Climate & Energy
Wink Motors Is Betting America's Next Car Is Barely a Car at All
Wink Motors is upgrading America's only street-legal electric micro-car, and the implications for how we think about transportation run deeper than the specs.
Climate & Energy
MAGA's Solar Conversion Tests Whether Policy Can Follow Political Loyalty
Elon Musk's 100-GW solar ambitions have turned MAGA influencers into solar fans overnight, but federal policy has not caught up with the culture shift.
Climate & Energy
Boreal Peatfires Are Quietly Undermining the World's Carbon Accounting
Smoldering peat fires burning deep underground are releasing ancient carbon that satellites can't detect, and climate models may be badly undercounting the damage.
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21 Mar 2026
Tesla's Texas Lithium Plant Was Quietly Discharging Wastewater Into a Local Ditch
Tesla's lithium plant in South Texas was legally discharging wastewater into a local ditch — and the people who manage that ditch had no idea.
21 Mar 2026
AI's Energy Appetite Is Real, But Its Climate Math Is More Complicated
AI consumes as much power as Iceland, yet its global emissions share stays surprisingly small. The real damage is happening somewhere else entirely.
21 Mar 2026
Vermont's Grid Is Being Rebuilt From the Inside Out, One Battery at a Time
Vermont's Green Mountain Power is turning home batteries into a distributed grid, and the feedback loop it's building could reshape how America thinks about electricity.
21 Mar 2026
Ocean Patterns Are Quietly Preventing a Global Drought Catastrophe
Ocean temperature cycles have been quietly capping global drought extent for over a century. New research reveals just how fragile that protection may be.
21 Mar 2026
Tesla Semi's Stalled Revolution: Why the Trucking Industry Isn't Buying In
Tesla's Semi truck promised to make diesel obsolete. Nearly a decade later, the biggest news it generates is still small pilot programs.
21 Mar 2026
Tesla's $2.9B Chinese Equipment Bet Reveals the Paradox at the Heart of U.S. Solar
Tesla is reportedly buying $2.9B in Chinese solar equipment to build 100 GW of U.S. capacity, exposing a deep contradiction in American industrial policy.
21 Mar 2026
Beyond the Gas Lines: How a U.S.-Iran War Would Cascade Into a Global Health Crisis
A war with Iran would spike gas prices, yes — but the deeper damage would ripple through food systems, hospital supply chains, and the atmosphere itself.
21 Mar 2026
A Marine Fungus That Kills Toxic Algae Could Reshape Coastal Ecosystems
A newly discovered marine fungus can infect and kill the toxic algae behind coastal bloom closures, and its unusual adaptability raises as many questions as it answers.
21 Mar 2026
Pink Jurassic Boulders Crack Open a Hidden Granite Giant Under Antarctica
Pink Jurassic boulders on Antarctica's surface led scientists to a granite mass 100 km wide buried beneath Pine Island Glacier, and it may change sea level models.
21 Mar 2026
Electric Trucks Are Solving a Hiring Crisis That Diesel Never Could
Benore Logistics went electric for the fuel savings. What they didn't expect was that it would solve their driver shortage too.
