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For a market that is still largely fossil fuel engine-dominated, the ability to compare multiple electrified platforms in one venue matters. The United Asia Automotive Group Inc. (UAAGI) ability to bring champion brands BAIC, Chery, Foton, Jetour, Lynk & Co, and Radar under its wing reflects how quickly Chinese and ... [continued]

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This week, a team of reporters for the New York Times consisting of Kirsten Grind, Melanie Bencosme, James Surdam, and Sean Havey, published a report about Elon Musk’s growing private empire in Texas. He is the wealthiest person in human history, so it’s not surprising that he may be doing ... [continued]

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The premium new energy vehicle brand Denza, a high-end division of BYD, has officially launched its operations in the Philippines. The debut took place in Manila with the introduction of the Denza D9 DM-i, a plug-in hybrid executive MPV. Last September 2025, when CleanTechnnica was in China for the BYD ... [continued]

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Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence

Environment Agency (EA) staff have downgraded thousands of serious pollution incidents by water companies in England without visiting to investigate, data unearthed by freedom of information (FoI) requests suggests.

The figures were obtained by Robert Forrester, a whistleblower who left the agency in January and has spent nine years shining a light on the state of the water industry. His identity was revealed in the Channel 4 docudrama Dirty Business this week, and he has vowed to carry on fighting to expose the truth.

Falling groundwater, extreme heat and water-intensive farming are accelerating land collapse, forcing a rethink in agricultural practices

Fatih Sik was drinking tea with friends at home when he heard a rumbling sound outside that grew to a loud boom, like a volcano had erupted nearby. From the window, he saw water and mud shoot into the sky, as high as the tallest trees, less than 100 metres away.

The 47-year-old knew what it was, because it is common in Karapınar, Konya, a vast agricultural province known as Turkey’s breadbasket. A giant sinkhole had opened up on his land. Fifty metres wide and 40 metres deep, it had appeared almost a year to the day after a previous one had formed. It was August – the hottest month of the year.

Litter picking groups struggle to stem tide of rubbish after reported incidents rose 10% in last year

Last Wednesday, in a layby outside Brackley, Northamptonshire, Trish Savill and her band of self-styled Wombles proudly took photos of their morning’s work: 28 bags stacked neatly against the verge.

It had taken them an hour, but they had barely made a dent in the sprawl of unrecognisable, rotting refuse already working its way into the soil, mixed with dumped white goods and some more dubious finds.

XPENG’s slow start to 2026 continued in February. I expect much is in the works in terms of product launches and model refreshes in coming months, but this is certainly not the start to the year the company would want to see. The company achieved 15,256 deliveries in February 2026, ... [continued]

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Hood hill, North Yorkshire: It’s a huge sycamore on top of a hill with amazing views of the Dales. Now we just have to get to it

A crisp clear day and welcome relief from a soggy winter – we’re off on my favourite walk, to Sammy’s Tree. There’s nothing to beat a hill climb on a winter’s day – frost and ice underfoot, the odd patch of snow on the hills above. We start on a track through mature conifers and ancient cherry trees, passing some hazel trees, their catkins already fully extended. A fallow deer, all legs and mottles, scurries away through the trees (much better than seeing a dead one on the roadside) and a flock of finches races through the treetops.

Then we burst out on to the open hillside which is covered in dormant heather and bilberry. A pair of grey squirrels chase each other round a stunted scrub oak, the green and grey lichen on the branches letting us know how clean the air is up here. At last, we’re on the ridge, with a sharp drop on either side and views stretching more than 30 miles over the Vale of York to the Yorkshire Dales. The sharp nose of Penhill, the gateway to Wensleydale, sparkles in the sunlight. We pass a crater showing where a bomber crashed in the second world war. Then, finally, we reach the top and the best bit of all – Sammy’s tree! It’s a huge sycamore that crowns the hill on the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey fortress – and it just has to be climbed.

There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse

Sarah Lambert took her usual morning swim for 40 minutes off Exmouth town beach before her volunteer shift helping disabled people get access to the water.

A wheelchair user herself, Lambert’s regular sea swims twice a week between the lifeboat station and HeyDays restaurant were the perfect form of exercise for her disability.

NIO had quite a solid sales month in February despite the country as a whole being in a down moment for EV sales. The company had 20,797 vehicle deliveries, which was 57.6% more than the 13,192 vehicle deliveries of February 2025. From birth to now, NIO has reached 1,045,571 cumulative ... [continued]

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With most Scots supportive of reintroducing the wild cat, charities are focusing on those whose jobs could be affected

Could lynx, the elusive wild cat driven to extinction in Britain more than 1,000 years ago, become the new Loch Ness monster? “Whether Nessie’s there or not, she draws tourists,” said Margaret Luckwell, a resident of Moray, Scotland. “It would be the same with lynx. I’d love to see a lynx in the wild.”

Luckwell’s view is a majority one among local people gathering at village halls across the Highlands, as a painstaking consultation slowly gathers momentum for the apex predator’s return to Scottish forests.

During German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s first official visit to China, NIO Inc. (“NIO”) and Bosch signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Representing the two sides, Dr. Shen Feng, Executive Vice President of NIO and Chairman of its Quality Management Committee, and Dr. Johannes Sommerhaeuser, Regional President Asia-Pacific at Bosch Global Business ... [continued]

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VinFast reached another network milestone in the Philippines with the launch of its Caloocan showroom and service hub, developed with retail partner AutoIcon Group. The city is just 8 kilometers from the capitol, Manila, and is central to expanding towards the north of Manila where there is a concentration of ... [continued]

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Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade

“A victory for life.” That was the triumphal message from Indigenous campaigners in the Brazilian Amazon this week after they staved off a threat to the Tapajós River by occupying a grain terminal operated by Cargill, the biggest privately owned company in the United States.

“The river won, the forest won, the memory of our ancestors won,” said the campaigners in Santarém when it was clear their actions had forced the Brazilian government into a U-turn on plans to privatise one of the world’s most beautiful waterways and expand its role as a soy canal.

The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

• All photographs courtesy of Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026

Understanding biodiversity within species is key to our understanding of why nature works the way it does, say researchers

• Words and photographs by Roberto García-Roa

Twelve miles from the heart of Rome, Dr Javier Ábalos pauses his walk, lifts his sunglasses and points. To his right, perched on a rocky wall, sits a beautiful lizard. Its body is coated in charcoal-black tones speckled with striking yellow across a green dorsum, and its head, with a prominent jaw, is splashed with fluorescent blue spots. The reptile basks in the sun, unconcerned by our presence.

About 80 miles (130km) drive farther along the road that connects the capital with the small village of Poggio di Roio, the researcher from the University of Valencia has barely stepped out of the car when he spots another lizard. This one is smaller, with a brownish body and a narrower head crisscrossed by a network of dark stripes.

Researchers fear the common wall lizard of the white morph could be driven to extinction by the arrival of a new variation

Public battery swapping and charging stations provide e-bike workers with a convenient, certified, fire-safe alternative to recharging at home.

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Ice Memory Foundation’s specially dug ‘sanctuary’ offers storage for cores, which hold thousands of years of history

Last month the Ice Memory Foundation opened the first ever sanctuary for mountain ice cores in Antarctica, where samples will be stored for centuries to come.

The cores, typically 10cm in diameter and a metre or more long, are stored in a specially excavated ice cave. The first to be laid down came from two Alpine glaciers that are rapidly shrinking.

The Subaru Solterra didn’t impress that much because of its limited range and fairly high price. Though, it might be a great car for some buyers. This new one, the Subaru Uncharted EV, seems much better mainly because it has a range of about 308 miles and a price below ... [continued]

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Aberdeen’s decision to retire and try to sell its 25 hydrogen double decker buses closes a chapter that began with confident claims about global leadership in clean transport. The fleet was promoted as the world’s first hydrogen double deck operation and positioned as a foundation for a broader hydrogen economy ... [continued]

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