Sometime in the blur of September 2020, I stood on a ridgeline in the Plumas National Forest in Northern California and watched as the year’s deadliest fire ripped nearly 30 miles down the Middle Fork of the Feather River. The…

When President Joe Biden unveiled his $2.25 trillion “American Jobs Plan” in early April, many climate activists breathed a (small) sigh of relief. Although the plan was smaller than the $10 trillion progressive Democrats had proposed spending on revamping the…

From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightReuters A major project aims to overcome a barrier to electricity grids that are entirely supplied by renewable energy. Output from wind turbines varies because wind speeds fluctuate; output from solar cells…

From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightGetty Images US President Joe Biden’s administration will suspend oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pending an environmental review. The move reverses former President Donald Trump’s decision to…

From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightGetty Images I know, you probably haven’t even driven one yet, let alone seriously contemplated buying one, so the prediction may sound a bit bold, but bear with me. We are in…

From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightNASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Nasa’s Perseverance rover is celebrating 100 Martian days (sols) since landing on Mars, where it is hunting for signs of past microbial life, and seeking to investigate the planet’s geology and…

This week, candid interviews about what a "just energy transition" means. We hear from Biden's National Climate Advisor about how the administration will help coal communities in the transition to clean energy, and from the head of the United Mine…

The online payment software company Stripe announced on Wednesday that it is spending $2.75 million to support six early-stage carbon removal projects in its second annual round of carbon removal purchases.  Carbon removal is a category of climate solutions that…