Archive for May 2024
Destructive Floods Afflict Tanzania
Exacerbated by El Niño, heavy rains in spring 2024 caused severe flooding in Tanzania’s Rufiji district, among other areas in eastern Africa.
Read MorePower outages linked to heat and storms are rising, and low-income communities are most at risk – NYC maps show the impact
Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.
Read MoreU.S. Saw Drop in Wind Generation Last Year
For the first time since the 1990s, U.S. wind generation dropped last year, according to government figures. The slump is the result of weak winds, and it comes despite the continued buildout of wind turbines nationally.
Read MoreClimbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reach
Mountain tourism brings revenues to Nepal but leaves a mess behind. Local and international groups are offering new cleanup strategies.
Read MoreElectric air taxis are on the way – quiet eVTOLs may be flying passengers as early as 2025
These electric aircraft take off and land vertically so they don’t need runways. And they promise a quieter, more accessible and less polluting form of short-distance air travel than helicopters.
Read MoreNew EPA regulations target air, water, land and climate pollution from power plants, especially those that burn coal
Lawsuits are inevitable, but an environmental lawyer explains why the EPA’s new power plant regulations are on solid ground.
Read MoreFrontier bets $58.3M on carbon removal startup Vaulted Deep
Squat metal wellheads rise from a grassy field in central Kansas, surrounded by red steel containers. Years ago, oil and gas companies came here to deposit their liquid waste into the teardrop-shaped salt caverns hundreds of feet below the surface. Now, a company with a wholly different mission is filling those same…
Read MoreMinnesota’s biggest solar project will help replace a huge coal plant
One of the largest solar projects in the country is moving closer to completion, and it’s not in a famously sunny state like California , Texas , or even Florida . It’s in Minnesota, on former potato farms near the site of a retiring coal plant. The Sherco solar and energy-storage facility will be the largest solar…
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