Boston startup wants to combat the climate crisis by launching network of radar satellites
The death and destruction wrought by Hurricane Ida has yet again highlighted the shortcomings of weather forecasting and warning systems as climate change is making...
Carbon capture—dream or nightmare—could be coming. Or not
In early September, at an industrial facility located about 25 miles southeast of Reykjavik, Iceland, the Swiss company Climeworks will mark the opening of a...
Gradient May Be a Revolution in Heating and Cooling
Professor Cameron Tonkinwise once called air conditioners weeds, view-destroying, and inefficient. He noted: "The window air conditioner allows architects to be lazy. We don't have...
Fossil Fuel Companies Are Quietly Scoring Big Money for Their Preferred Climate Solution: Carbon Capture and Storage
Over the last year, energy companies, electrical utilities and other industrial sectors have been quietly pushing through a suite of policies to support a technology...
Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming
As the world's top climate scientists released a report full of warnings this week, they kept insisting that the world still has a chance to...
Did They Really Make It Rain Over Dubai? Does It Matter?
Driving coastward through Mississippi last month, I hit rain. First it spat at the windshield, a few drops sprinkling down from the sky onto a...
Biden wants to pay farmers to grow carbon-capturing crops. It’s complicated
President Joe Biden’s goal of paying farmers and ranchers to help battle climate change is running into the reality of how complicated and costly it...
Indiana DOT, Purdue developing wireless EV charging for highways
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is partnering with Purdue University and German infrastructure technology company Magment on a pilot project to develop the world's first paved...