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Despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, US states continue to push the renewable energy transition with energy storage incentives and virtual power plants as well as new wind, solar, and hydropower projects.

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The EV revolution continues to roll forward with news this week of new entry level cars from Kia and Volkswagen, and news from BYD about Canada.

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Fearing that extreme weather threatened its epic breaks, Oriente Salvaje is piloting the first surf insurance policy to protect livelihoods and ecosystems

In the late 1990s in El Salvador, Rodrigo Barraza went in search of every surfer’s dream: a pristine wave, far from the crowds. Down a rough dirt track hours from any city, he found it: a little-known surf spot on the country’s eastern shores, where long lines of waves form a crisp right-hand break, surrounded by thousands of hectares of tropical forest.

“I fell in love with the place,” says Barraza. In 2004, he opened a small hotel there, and along with some surfing friends, founded a tourism association. They developed sustainable tourism standards and committed to protect the surrounding biodiverse ecosystemof rare dry tropical forest, rivers and mangroves. They called it Oriente Salvaje – the “wild east”.

Oriente Salvaje is known by surfers for its world-class breaks, Las Flores and Punto Mango

Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

The world’s worst mega-leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane in 2025 have been revealed by an analysis of satellite data.

The super-polluting plumes from oil and gas facilities have a colossal heating impact on the climate but often result from poor maintenance and can be simple to fix. The assessment found dozens of mega-leaks, each having the same global heating impact as a coal-fired power station.

Last month, CleanTechnica carried a story about the growing footprint of Lucid Motors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The company’s expanding presence in the Middle East, centered on its assembly facility at King Abdullah Economic City near Jeddah, has often been presented as a milestone for both the automaker ... [continued]

The post Op-Ed: Lucid Motors’ EV Manufacturing is Now Inside a Geopolitical Fault Line appeared first on CleanTechnica.

President Donald J. Trump is causing irreconcilable harm to the US environment. His administration is abandoning clean energy investments. Freezing climate, clean air, and clean water federal policies. Rejecting limits on PFAS in industrial wastewater. Eliminating consumer protections. Sabotaging major treaties on plastic production and shipping emissions. With all of ... [continued]

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Arrests linked to palm oil fraud raise concerns over Europe’s capacity to verify waste biofuel supplies. Handcuffed, masked and clad in a pink vest, Fadjar Donny Tjahjadi, the Indonesian Technical Director of Customs, is led towards a prison vehicle. Alongside ten other suspects, including two civil servants and eight private ... [continued]

The post What Do Multiple Arrests in Indonesia Mean for Europe’s Biofuels Policy? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

This year, Guardian Live events will host the Guardian Climate Forum 2026, a live gathering focused on discussing solutions, accountability and the shared task of building a greener, fairer future. And we want to shape this landmark event with your help

The climate crisis is one of the defining challenges of our age. But it is also a story of ingenuity, resilience and collective action. Across the world, communities are rethinking energy, food, transport and finance. Campaigners are holding power to account. Scientists are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Change is happening and the conversation about what comes next belongs to all of us.

We’d like to hear from you:

Which climate issues feel the most pressing where you are, and which give you hope?

What solutions, ideas or grassroots initiatives deserve deeper exploration?

Who would you most like to hear from, and whose perspectives are we missing?

What stories about climate progress, innovation or accountability are underreported?

What would make an event on climate feel constructive, inspiring and genuinely useful?

Drosopigi, the Mani, Greece: This rocky region’s abundance of flora takes the breath away – not least a long and winding trail of Chios chamomile

The Greek name for this southernmost tip of the Peloponnese is linked to a Byzantine fort at Cape Tigani (called Megali Maina), but it may well also draw on the region’s desolate, mountainous rocky country that persists throughout the entire peninsula.

The fierce Maniot people were well described by Patrick Leigh Fermor in his book Mani (1958), but the region has been more recently celebrated in Charles Foster’s brilliant The Edges of the World, published in January. In history the Mani was known variously for the relentless and sometimes centuries-long vendettas between its local clans, as a fertile recruiting ground for Mediterranean piracy and as an early outpost for Greek liberation from Ottoman rule.

From fluffy owlets to rosy-hued flamingos, Claire Rosen’s portraits of live birds took her on a journey that touched on colonialism, wallpaper design … and chickens

Researchers project that reduced activity could contribute to half a million additional premature deaths annually by 2050

Rising temperatures are making physical activity undesirable and even dangerous in many parts of the world, and as global heating worsens, it will further affect how much people are able to move.

Researchers analysed data from 156 countries between 2000 and 2022 and modelled how rising temperatures may affect physical activity globally by 2050.

Water shortages and rising heat is putting pressure on beer ingredients, but US brewers and farmers are adapting

With St Patrick’s Day this week, millions of Americans are raising a glass. Beer remains the country’s most popular alcoholic drink with more than 6bn gallons consumed each year. But from water shortages to rising temperatures, the climate crisis is putting pressure on beer’s most essential ingredients.

At Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, beer is either stacked high in warehouse rows or racing down a canning line and assembled into 12-packs. Inside the cavernous cellars, enormous 6,000-gallon tanks hold the latest batches in progress.

Our photojournalist explores the Cornish landmark on the eve of its anniversary and meets some of its staff, visitors, plants and creatures

“Give me a sleeping bag and I’ll happily sleep here overnight,” says Kim Mackintosh as she wanders amid the vibrant flora of the Mediterranean biome at the Eden Project on the eve of the tourist attraction’s 25th anniversary.

Loupe in hand, the leader of the biome’s horticulture team is marvelling at an array of plants that have recently come into bloom, tenderly examining the yellow furry buds of an Acacia glaucoptera before flogging a Grevillea flower to dispense its rich, honey-flavoured nectar.

Kim Mackintosh inspects the ‘kangaroo paw’ of an Anigozanthos through her loupe. All photographs by Jonny Weeks

Three Chinese brands—BYD, Chery, and Geely—are now widely viewed as the most likely entrants under the new quota system. Yet among the three, Chery may hold an overlooked advantage rooted not in its current electric vehicle portfolio, but in a largely forgotten attempt to enter the Canadian market two decades ... [continued]

The post Chery Once Tried Canada and Never Got to First Base, Could this Comeback be a Home Run? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The Trump administration’s cuts to biodiversity funding have imperiled species, habitats and the people who defend both. Now the world is seeking a new way forward

On 22 January 2024, at the inauguration of the current Liberian president, Joseph Boakai, the US-based Liberian poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley paid tribute to the west African nation’s tropical forests – one of the places where, she said, “our fathers came / centuries ago, and planted our umbilical cords / deep in the soil”.

The forests of Liberia are among the most diverse on the planet, home not only to humans and their ancestral ties but also to rare species such as forest elephants, pygmy hippopotamuses and western chimpanzees. They are also chronically threatened by industrial development, including illegal logging and mining.

Electric buses may be one of the best uses of electrified mass transit, because they move large numbers of people each day they are in service. Their electric motors are more energy efficient than internal combustion engines and they have regenerative braking. They also don’t directly generate toxic emissions, so ... [continued]

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Strategic collaboration combines Hyundai Motor Group’s Software-Defined Vehicle expertise with NVIDIA’s AI to accelerate data-driven autonomous vehicle development Expanded partnership positions Hyundai Motor Group as an autonomous driving ecosystem leader with scalable deployment strategy for Level 2 and above systems Collaboration to deploy safe, scalable autonomous driving across Hyundai Motor ... [continued]

The post Hyundai Motor, Kia, & NVIDIA Expand Strategic Partnership for Next-Generation Autonomous Driving Technology appeared first on CleanTechnica.

With the Zeekr 7X achieving the rank of third among the top ten battery electric vehicles (BEVs) purchased in Australia in February (behind only the Tesla Model Y and BYD Sealion), it was great to have one visit our monthly coffee, cake and EVs morning tea. Steve Nixon was generous ... [continued]

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The detection at a popular park of ‘one of the worst invasive species to reach Australia’ is causing concern that suppression efforts are cracking

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The Newmarket women’s football side was gearing up for its clash against crosstown club New Farm United in Brisbane’s inner northern suburbs on Saturday morning when a message pinged in the team’s group chat.

Just hours before kick-off, the game was postponed, to a date undetermined.

The global wind industry’s next growth phase is being written in Asia-Pacific, and the shift is happening faster than many expected. The Global Wind Energy Council’s (GWEC) latest market signals show that the region is no longer an emerging contributor but the central driver of record installations, new supply chains, ... [continued]

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