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Here are the top 10 most affordable EVs and hybrids to insure
Mercury Insurance released its ranking of the 10 cheapest new 2026 model-year electric and hybrid vehicles to insure, with hybrids dominating the list and two Chevrolet EVs also making the cut.
Subaru is spending nearly $10,000 per vehicle to sell its new EVs
Subaru is pouring roughly $10,000 per vehicle into incentives to move its three electric SUVs, and the cost is now showing up on its quarterly earnings.
Trump administration to pay German firm $1.2bn to halt US wind projects
The Trump administration will pay German energy company RWE $1.2bn to abandon its US offshore wind projects, with RWE redirecting $900m into a new Louisiana LNG export terminal.
I was 14 when I first visited my father's offshore workplace. That's when I found my calling
A 23-year-old Singaporean naval architecture student credits a childhood visit to her father's offshore oil facility with launching her career in maritime engineering — a field where women make up jus
Beijing Drenched as Typhoon Dolphin Targets China Coast
Beijing issued heavy rain warnings across six districts and deployed over 2,000 emergency staff as China prepared for Typhoon Dolphin's expected landfall on the eastern coast between Sunday and Monday
Global food prices at three-year high as heatwaves and wars push up crop costs
Global food prices have reached a three-and-a-half-year high due to extreme weather and conflicts disrupting crop production and trade, with wheat, sugar, and vegetable oil costs rising sharply.
Could geoengineering ‘ice arches’ help preserve Arctic sea ice?
Dutch startup Arctic Reflections, backed by £9.9 million in UK government funding, is testing whether thickening ice in the Nares Strait would reinforce the 'ice arches' keeping Arctic sea ice from dr
Drought and Heat Push Europe Power Grid to Brink
Europe's electricity supply is buckling under a record hot summer, with Hungary shutting most turbines at its Paks nuclear plant for the first time ever and wholesale prices more than doubling in seve
England Records Driest July Ever; Half in Drought
England recorded its driest July since records began nearly two centuries ago, with half of England and all of Wales now officially in drought. The National Drought Group chair calls conditions 'excep
Europe’s dry riverbeds and scorched earth – in pictures
The Guardian's photo essay documents widespread wildfires and drought across Europe during a summer of extreme heat, capturing dry riverbeds and scorched landscapes across the continent.
Wales Wildfires Burn Centuries of Peat in Single Seasons
NRW's Nick Thomas expects 2026 to be Wales's worst wildfire year on record, with incinerated peat soils — which grow about a millimetre a year — potentially needing centuries to regenerate.
Central Europe Heatwave Breaks Temperature Records
Slovakia hit a record 42C and Poland shut two coal plants as the Vistula River dried up, while Germany's Robert Koch Institute estimates 11,900 heat deaths this summer and World Weather Attribution li
Why Britain is breathing the world’s wildfire smoke
Research from the University of Edinburgh and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology finds wildfires account for roughly 10% of the UK's particle pollution, with smoke from fires thousands of miles awa
Le Corbusier’s social housing was meant to be the dream. In a summer of extreme heat, it is a nightmare | Anna Richards
Residents in Le Corbusier's listed Unité d'Habitation in Firminy, France, endure 40°C heat inside their social housing flats because heritage protections bar them from installing shutters — while 20,0
NYC is putting 600 new EV charging points right at the curb
New York City's Department of Transportation will install 600 new curbside EV charging points across all five boroughs over three years, expanding its PlugNYC network from 88 Level 2 ports to nearly 7
Tesla Megapack 500 MWh Battery Live in Texas
Tesla Megapacks are now operating at Ørsted's 250 MW/500 MWh Old 300 battery storage project in Needville, Texas, fully connected to the ERCOT grid and capable of delivering two hours of power.
Another day, another illegal billion-dollar bribe to raise your electricity prices
The Interior Department has paid over $3.9 billion in taxpayer funds across four deals to RWE, Invenergy, Duke Energy, and TotalEnergies to cancel offshore wind leases and redirect investment toward n
i-charging's 1.5 MW truck charger clears US safety hurdle
Portuguese EV charging company i-charging's 1.5 MW i-light heavy-duty truck charger has received Intertek ETL certification, validating its compliance with US and Canadian electrical safety standards
2027 Toyota C-HR EV pricing is here, starting at $37,080
Toyota set 2027 C-HR EV pricing starting at $37,080, an $80 increase over 2026 and $2,100 above the bZ, with the dual-motor AWD SUV arriving at dealerships in September alongside the bZ and bZ Woodlan
Your gas car works fine. Consider an EV anyway, scientists say.
A new study in Science finds that replacing even a nearly new gas car with an EV cuts lifetime emissions by roughly 50%, debunking the popular belief that keeping an existing gas vehicle is the greene
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