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Tesla Discontinues Solar Roof Tiles, Deemed Not Viable
Tesla has officially discontinued its Solar Roof tile product after years of unmet production targets, ballooning prices, and a class-action settlement, telling installers it will only supply conventi
Sun Returns for UK Weekend as Drought Deepens
High pressure is set to bring a drier, sunnier weekend across the UK after days of heavy downpours, though officials warn the rain has done little to ease drought conditions now affecting over two-thi
Climate: Saving Old Trees Might Save Lives
A new study in the journal GeoHealth tracked Chicago's tree canopy from 2011 to 2021 and found each year-to-year percent increase was associated with roughly a 10 percent reduction in neighborhood mor
Solrite launches 60 kWh solar-battery deal in Illinois
Solrite Energy launched a $0-down solar-plus-storage program for Illinois homeowners featuring a 60 kWh battery—more than four times the Tesla Powerwall 3's capacity—designed around the state's Januar
Duke’s Carolinas resource plan targets 18.5 GW new solar by 2041
Duke Energy filed its 2026 Carolinas Resource Plan with South Carolina regulators, proposing 18.5 GW of new solar, 14 GW of gas, 13 GW of storage, and 4.5 GW of new nuclear additions through 2041 to s
Flash flooding risk as heavy rain hits UK
Heavy rainfall sweeping across the UK has prompted warnings of a flash flooding risk as severe weather continues to affect the country.
Waymo Opens Zeekr Ojai Robotaxi to All Riders
Waymo opened its Zeekr-built Ojai robotaxi to the general public across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, letting Americans ride in a Chinese-made EV they're barred from buying due to 127.5% ta
Electric co-ops urge EPA repeal of gas plant emissions rule
Nonprofit electric cooperative CEOs urged the Trump administration to fully repeal EPA greenhouse gas standards for new gas-fired power plants, arguing the rule's capacity factor threshold and carbon
Geely prepares revolutionary 500 Wh/kg solid-state EV battery that could beat diesel
Geely unveiled a solid-state EV battery targeting 500 Wh/kg — roughly double the energy density of today's best lithium-ion cells — with pilot deployment slated for 2027 across its brands, though chem
Winner of Invertebrate of the Year 2026 crowned – and it is the size of a grain of rice
A neon green, rice-grain-sized solar-powered sea slug called the leaf sheep has won the Guardian's Invertebrate of the Year 2026 competition, edging out the world's largest bumblebee in a much tighter
Europe Faces Surging Wildfire Threat, New Research Shows
New research projects that European wildfires could burn across about 39 percent more land by the end of the century even with rapid greenhouse gas emissions cuts. Under continued high emissions, burn
Texas Produced Water Disposal Hits Breaking Point
Texas officials warn the Permian Basin is at the 'precipice' of exhausting underground disposal capacity for the nearly 1 billion gallons of oilfield 'produced water' generated daily, fueling pressure
Florida strips climate change from science textbooks
Florida education officials quietly pressured science publishers in summer 2024 to soften or delete climate change content from high school textbooks, softening a WHO-cited death-toll statistic and ev
Chester Zoo Calls Peak Cluster Pipeline 'Unacceptable'
Chester Zoo's chief executive has publicly condemned plans for an underground carbon-emissions pipeline proposed by Peak Cluster, saying the route would destroy irreplaceable wetland habitats on the z
BTO: Over Half of Migratory Bird Species in Major Decline
A British Trust for Ornithology review with international partners finds that more than half of the world's migratory bird species are in major decline, with the African-Eurasian flyway hit especially
Climate Whiplash Exposes England's Broken Water System
A Guardian column argues that England's record-breaking summer drought — which has killed almost 3,000 people and left nearly three-quarters of the country parched — exposes a privatized water system
UK Heatwaves Reshape Allotments: Watermelons and Crop Losses
UK allotment growers from Oxfordshire to Manchester describe their hardest season in years as heatwaves and drought devastate traditional crops, while some are accidentally succeeding with Mediterrane
Field Horsetail Thrives in Drought via Deep Rhizomes
Guardian country diarist Kate Blincoe profiles the field horsetail (Equisetum arvense), a silicon-rich 'living fossil' that has persisted since before the dinosaurs and continues to thrive through dro
The threatening thaw: climate professor on heatwave risks to tipping point of permafrost
Professor Gustaf Hugelius warns that thawing permafrost, which stores 1,500 gigatons of carbon, is already passing irreversible tipping points and will keep emitting greenhouse gases for centuries eve
Toxic Algae Hits First Thames Bathing Spot in London
Toxic blue-green algae were detected at the Ham bathing site — London's first official bathing spot on the Thames — prompting an Environment Agency warning not to swim. The discovery intensifies scrut
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