It happened yet again. Another plume of smoke rose from Vistra’s Moss Landing battery plant Friday morning, a year and a half after a catastrophic fire wrecked the grid storage facility in Northern California. Vistra built Moss Landing on the California coast, south of Santa Cr
In this week’s newsletter: As the Guardian launches a year-long project, Our Rivers, we take stock of the issues facing waterways around the worldDon’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe nicknames of the world’s biggest rivers give a sense of how we feel a
Shadow chancellor says having union chiefs on the court of directors could hinder the Bank’s ‘reputation for financial discipline’Andrew Griffith has delivered his speech, and he is now taking questions.Q: You want the government to pause the making tax digital programme. Is that
The unfinished expansion of Gross Reservoir near Denver can proceed after three judges ruled Tuesday in favor of the federal government and a water utility’s challenge to a lower court opinion halting construction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Denver Water defended the da
From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from Alaska, the Amazon and beyond for a film about how to heal our besieged planet. He talks about naysayers, elephant tusks – and the wonders of venisonBenedict Cumberbatch is dreading stepping outside. He
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Emily Renkey from the Marmot Project. You may have heard of Fat Bear Week, the annual contest where the public gets to vote on who they think is the f
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has built what may be the biggest battery in the U.S. at its controversial Memphis AI computing hub. The exact size of the battery is unclear. Canary Media counted 720 Tesla Megapack battery containers visible on the grounds of the Colossus 2 data center in
The intensifying super El Niño, combined with global warming, is favored to make 2026 the hottest year on record, with 2027 expected to be even hotter.
Two-thirds of Utah voters support restoring the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to the previous boundaries they had before President Donald Trump reduced them to less than a quarter of their original size. That’s according to new polling
Throughout his career, the writer and farmer found joy in a world without end.
When the power goes out during a Georgia summer, the heat builds fast. Inside a home without air conditioning, the air turns heavy and stifling. For Donica Odell, who has dealt with Georgia Power disconnections for much of her life, it feels “like you’re boiling like crab legs.”
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from challenging California’s longstanding authority to set vehicle pollution stan tdadards stricter than federal requirements. The legal dispute stems from a decision announced in June by EPA administrat
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with climate scientist Michael Mann. As the United Nations prepares to hold a climate summit in late September, it’s warning that current climate polic
In this week’s newsletter: As the Guardian launches a year-long project, Our Rivers, we take stock of the issues facing waterways around the worldDon’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe nicknames of the world’s biggest rivers give a sense of how we feel a
Throughout his career, the writer and farmer found joy in a world without end.
“Families shouldn’t have to pay for the AI boom with their health.”
Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. Ahead of Climate Week NYC, Inside Climate host Jake Bolster speaks to U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and asks why so many Democrats are leaning away from climate messaging at a time when the
Read this article in Chinese 阅读本文中文版. China’s electric grid has a dirty secret: Despite leading the world in renewable energy expansion, it is also the largest emitter of the planet’s most potent greenhouse gas. Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a synthetic chemical that plays a criti
Read this article in English. 中国的电网有一个肮脏的秘密：尽管它在可再生能源发展引领全球，它也是地球上最强效温室气体的最大排放源。 六氟化硫（SF6）是一种合成化学物质，在高压设备中作为电气绝缘介质发挥着至关重要的角色。这种气体无色无味、无毒、且不可燃。但它也是气候杀手，按等质量计算，其使地球变暖的效力是二氧化碳的24,300倍。一旦释放，六氟化硫会在大气中存留1,000年。 排放主要来自电力行业。该行业中将这种气体用于断路器和其他高压设备中，以防止电弧放电。六氟化硫几乎无法被破坏，是任何现代电网的关键安全屏障，确保电力只在
Democrats controlled the Senate and the presidency when Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse first sought to roust his colleagues from the chamber’s floor, warning them that they were sleep-walking into climate disaster. Fourteen years and more than 300 “Time to Wake Up” speeches later, the R
A century of development, rising seas, and climate change have made South Florida far more vulnerable to a catastrophic storm.
While the Atlantic remains historically quiet with no hurricanes so far, several systems are stirring in the Pacific, including one that could strengthen near Mexico next week.
Years after a water crisis rocked Jackson, Mississippi, the court finds that residents have no right “to truthful information from officials.”
Jaques and Paulina Sebastiao were the first residents on their street to rebuild their two-bedroom house two years after Hurricane Michael’s 155 mile-per-hour winds leveled almost every building in Mexico Beach in 2018. Few of their old neighbors in the Panhandle fishing village
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