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Most Americans underestimate their local heat risk: People rely on past weather and lived experience, but climate change is pushing heat risk beyond what many communities recognize. Many rural, older, and higher-poverty US counties face serious heat risk with little public awareness

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Most Americans underestimate their local heat risk: People rely on past weather and lived experience, but climate change is pushing heat risk beyond what many communities recognize. Many rural, older, and higher-poverty US counties face serious heat risk with little public awareness

climatecommunication.yale.edu

u/sg_plumber — 20 hours ago

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France’s reactors are now bending for European solar: Between 2019 and 2025, the average swing between midday and evening nuclear output across the April to September window grew from 582 MW to 4,426 MW. Import hours no longer signal scarcity at home but rather cheap renewable surplus abroad.

pv-magazine.com

u/sg_plumber — 1 day ago

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In 2025, solar leapt 30% from 2024, producing 2,800 TWh globally. Solar panels are built once and generate electricity for decades. Like microchips, solar and batteries follow learning curves: as production scales, costs fall. Rooftop solar is the cheapest retail energy ever delivered to consumers.

climatetrunk.com

u/sg_plumber — 1 day ago

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Nio's EV battery-swapping isn't just a gimmick: The Chinese EV maker has handled over 100 million swaps since 2018, a few minutes per swap, up to 1 million swaps and GWh of energy per week. Nio is working with Chinese battery giant CATL on battery-swapping standards.

u/sg_plumber — 1 day ago

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Utah firefighters save 25 million lives: A truck carrying 480 beehives broke down in a mountain pass and began to overheat, with no airflow to keep its cargo of bees alive. Fire authorities used their equipment to mist and spray the truck, keeping it cool in the hot sun until its engine was fixed.

u/sg_plumber — 1 day ago

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Marine scientists discover record number of 1,121 new marine species in a single year, a significant step in the research needed to understand and protect the oceans. Some corals, crabs, shrimps, sea urchins and anemones live at depths of more than 4 miles beneath the ocean surface

u/sg_plumber — 2 days ago

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New York City plans to achieve 30% tree canopy by 2040 through protection, preservation, and planting of more trees. It will cool neighborhoods, help manage stormwater, improve air quality, reduce GHGs emissions, increase habitat for wildlife, and enhance the health and quality of life for all.

u/sg_plumber — 2 days ago

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California startup opens DC fast charging station powered entirely by 1,080 solar panels (640 kW). Located on I-15, the off-grid station has 4 CCS1 ports sharing 360 kW, with 6 NACS soon to be added; a 3.6 MWh battery pack keeps the lights on around the clock. More stations are in the works.

u/sg_plumber — 3 days ago

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Countries are “back on track” to adopt a net-zero framework for curbing global shipping emissions, following the latest International Maritime Organization’s meeting in London, UK. With negotiations ongoing and support growing, they will try to adopt it at the December 2026 meeting.

carbonbrief.org

u/sg_plumber — 1 day ago

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Regulator in India's top solar state again blocks 3.2 GW coal power project, asking utilities to reassess. The Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission had already refused permission last year, saying it conflicted with clean energy goals and lacked justification under demand forecasts

u/sg_plumber — 4 days ago

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Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive? The debate about prices is wrong if it stops at the wholesale market, nor is solar the whole tale. The “renewables make the system expensive” framing gets the causation backwards. The bigger lever, by far, is the structure of retail bills.

janrosenow.substack.com

u/sg_plumber — 4 days ago

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Community-owned Ray Valley Solar generates clean electricity to power 7,000 homes, and uses its profits to provide grants to initiatives that help reduce carbon emissions and make homes, schools, and businesses across Oxfordshire more energy efficient. Now they'll install 12 MWh of battery storage.

theguardian.com

u/sg_plumber — 4 days ago

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US gardeners flock to climate-resilient native plants. They need less water, less maintenance, and are incredibly resilient. They help flood prevention with their deep root systems and provide habitat for all kinds of crucial species and pollinators. It’s not a fad. This is a long, steady climb.

u/sg_plumber — 5 days ago

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Uncontacted Amazon tribes' landmark legal victory puts Ecuador under growing global pressure to stop oil drilling in Yasuni National Park, the world's most biodiverse rainforest. 10 of 247 oil wells have been shut down after a national referendum in 2023

u/sg_plumber — 4 days ago

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New cement process replaces limestone with calcium-rich silicate rocks such as basalt to slash energy use by 60% and CO2 emissions by 80%. Global basalt resources are abundant enough for hundreds of thousands of years at current consumption rates while also yielding valuable metals.

interestingengineering.com

u/sg_plumber — 5 days ago

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Wildlife heroes save 2 baby red squirrels from ditch. They are currently undergoing a course of antibiotics at the National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross, Clackmannanshire, have both been microchipped, and remain under the care of the small mammals team as they recuperate.

independent.co.uk

u/sg_plumber — 6 days ago

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Uganda’s National E-Mobility Strategy aims to transition its public transit sector fully away from fossil fuels by 2030. The $1.7 billion strategy also includes the deployment of 3,500 public EV charging stations, which will make it easier for more Ugandans to buy electric vehicles.

u/sg_plumber — 6 days ago

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An innovative Water Treatment System, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico, can be an essential resource for places that have long lacked reliable access to clean drinking water. This portable system can be transported to rural areas to draw water from rivers and other surface water sources.

insideclimatenews.org

u/sg_plumber — 4 days ago

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Devastated by a 2015 bacterial outbreak that killed 200,000 in 3 weeks, Kazakhstan's saiga antelope population has rebounded from 48,000 worldwide to 4.1 million. IUCN reclassified it from Critically Endangered to Near Threatened — one of the largest mammal recoveries ever recorded.

astanatimes.com

u/sg_plumber — 6 days ago

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Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet: in 2023 they got $3 million of solar panels from China; in 2025 it was $117 million. 92 solar parks across the country are projected by 2028, for a total of 2 GW, enough to power 1.5 million homes. 50 are already online.

edition.cnn.com

u/sg_plumber — 7 days ago