Japan is charting a new course for development – but looking in the wrong direction
Japan is testing a new approach to development cooperation that favours short-term dynamism over long-term stability. The last…
The green warrior: Man grew a 31-hectare forest on degraded land over 40 years despite pro-deforestation policies |
In a region where forests were once cleared to make way for agriculture, one man chose a different…
Endangered orangutan filmed using canopy bridge to cross public road in Indonesia: “A world first”
A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a human-made canopy bridge to cross a…
One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on | Spain
One year ago today, all of Spain, and much of Portugal, suffered through a blackout of unprecedented scale…
EU energy mix: Crisis pushes balance on nuclear, renewables and security
The record-breaking disruption to the global energy supply triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is…
Swapping Out Diesel For Solar & Batteries In The Amazon Rainforest
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Recently, we wrote about how affordability is now…
Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak
For more than a century, the world has run on coal. When Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street electrical station…
Middle East crisis could cost world $1tn while oil firms make ‘obscene’ profit, analysis finds | Fossil fuels
The Middle East oil and gas crunch will impose as much as a trillion dollars of additional costs…
Spain, France, Portugal: Renewables race heats up as governments scramble to keep energy bills down
With the US-Israeli war on Iran plunging the world into what the IEA chief has called the “largest…
Mining mine wastes for sustainable value creation
Franks, D. M. et al. Sci. Rep. 11, 5353 (2021). Article CAS Google Scholar Lottermoser, B. G. in…
Why the Southeast is burning – extreme drought is only part of the cause
Large parts of the southeastern U.S. are in the midst of an exceptional drought, and it is fueling…
Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
The Houtman Abrolhos Islands, off Western Australia, where corals appear to be exceptionally heat-tolerant Bill Bachman/Alamy Coral reefs…