Could electric vehicles help this African capital clean its air and fight climate change?
Steve Muigai spends his days driving a boda boda (motorcycle taxi) in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. He makes…
Supply chain and environmental implications of waste-to-graphite
Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2024 https://www.iea.org/reports/global-critical-minerals-outlook-2024 (International Energy Agency, 2024). Bhattacharyya, S. et al. Graphite: the new critical…
Mexico’s Small Retailers Push Sustainability, Recycling Practices
Given their reach within local communities, small retailers are increasingly being positioned as a channel to promote recycling, responsible…
A New Era of Electricity Inflation Has Transformed the Northeast’s Carbon Market
A carbon price can be a tough sell when electricity costs are rising. That’s what governors up and…
Measuring stress inside composites with mechanophores
A wind turbine blade can span tens of metres, but failure may begin within a microscopic region hidden…
FCC approves launch of satellite designed to reflect sunlight back to Earth
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a satellite launch on Thursday to test a reflector designed to…
Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents | MIT News
Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools to tackle complicated…
Advancing solar and wind penetration in China through energy complementarity
Grams, C. M., Beerli, R., Pfenninger, S., Staffell, I. & Wernli, H. Balancing Europe’s wind-power output through spatial…
The Tech That Could Turn Plastic Waste Into a Trillion Dollar Opportunity
Plastic is cheap, but it’s an ecological, environmental, and human health disaster that actually costs Americans over $1…
NATO backs renewables as solution to energy security, despite US skepticism – POLITICO
“By diversifying the energy sources, and routes, on which our Alliance depends — including through use of alternative…
Fossil fuels face higher taxes than electricity under looming bill – POLITICO
Solidarity tax Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain have also called on the Commission to propose a temporary…
Moving from Energy Crisis to Energy Security with Renewables
New IRENA policy advisory shows strategic role of renewables for energy security and resilience; recommends actions for policy…