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Super Typhoon Bavi Pummels Guam, Northern Mariana Islands
Super Typhoon Bavi, packing 290 km/h winds, made landfall on Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands on Monday, triggering catastrophic damage warnings, widespread power outages, and emergency evacuation
Greece Installs First Floating Barrier Against Toxic Pufferfish
Greece has installed its first floating barrier in the Gulf of Euboea to protect swimmers from invasive toxic pufferfish, part of a broader push that includes a bounty program, fuel subsidies for fish
6 Pitfalls Utilities Hit in Digital Customer Upgrades
VertexOne product strategy and implementation leaders Andreya Shaak and Christina Schueneman outline six pitfalls that derail utility self-service portals — from undefined goals and messy data to big-
PJM’s rate increase is here. What’s your strategy?
PJM capacity auction rates have surged roughly tenfold in two years, climbing from $28.92 to $329.17 per MW-day for the 2026/2027 delivery year and reaching $333.44 for 2027/2028, forcing municipal ut
FERC Orders Grid Operators to Open Room for Flexible AI Loads
FERC told regional grid operators in June to make room for customers who can flex their power demand as AI data centers and electrification drive the fastest load growth in a generation — faster than
Notre Dame Study Maps PFAS Path Through Great Lakes Food Chain
A University of Notre Dame meta-analysis of nearly 2,500 samples spanning 42 years of Great Lakes data traces how PFAS 'forever chemicals' accumulate up the food chain — from algae to salmon and eagle
‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre
A Guardian investigation finds Scotland's multibillion-pound Lanarkshire AI growth zone relies on a renewable energy plan needing ~44 sq km of land it doesn't have, and a 3,400-jobs figure APRS calls
Kent mink cull targets 90% population cut
A Kent conservation project aims to slash invasive American mink numbers by 90% within two years, expanding trapping across the county with funding from a national shooting association.
Farnham Backs Public Ownership of Jersey Golf Course
Jersey's Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham has backed the idea of publicly acquiring Les Mielles Golf & Country Club, a £9.95m site in St Peter that a 600+ signature petition wants returned to nature.
Warden's Seed Rescue Saves Rare Cow-Wheat Colony
Sarah Lambert returns to a rare colony of crested cow-wheat in eastern England, tracing its survival to a reserve warden who rescued seed from a vanishing Ufford colony 40 years ago and transplanted i
Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate
Tim Flannery surveys five outlandish 20th-century geoengineering schemes — from a 1930s plan to dam the Mediterranean to Soviet proposals to melt the Arctic with nuclear bombs — arguing humanity's lon
The grid was melting down in last week’s heat – until EVs came to the rescue
During last week's heat wave, roughly 230 electric school buses with vehicle-to-grid technology fed 8 MWh of stored battery power back to overtaxed utilities, helping prevent blackouts and demonstrati
UK records 37.7C as readers recall 1976 heatwave
A provisional 37.7C reading in Lingwood, Norfolk broke the June record set during the 1976 UK heatwave, prompting readers to share memories of that drought — shared baths, rationed water, and swarms o
Solar Panels Over Car Parks: Reader Asks Why Not
The Guardian's reader-answer column asked why the UK builds solar farms on green space instead of covering car parks, citing a viral meme, and opened submissions from readers for publication next Sund
Los Angeles turns ‘most polluting’ World Cup into Olympic rehearsal in bid for climate legacy
Los Angeles is hosting eight World Cup matches at SoFi Stadium as a stress test for the 2028 Summer Olympics, while the city contends with displaced wildfire survivors, a budget deficit, and transit i
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Hurricanes, heat domes, and holding up the grid with home batteries [update]
The case for virtual power plants has strengthened significantly over the past year as home battery adoption accelerates, with Tesla Powerwall paying owners $9.9 million in 2024 for grid contributions
Aldi Cloned in Fake Air Conditioning Scam Sites
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has uncovered sophisticated fake retailer websites — including a clone of Aldi — that lure UK heatwave shoppers with steeply discounted air conditioning units before steal
Europe's AC Culture War Turns Political
Europe's record heatwave has turned air conditioning into a political flashpoint, with far-right parties reversing earlier dismissals to attack climate policy while health experts warn of mounting dea
‘They ate the shrimp, they even ate the crab’: Thai fishers count the cost of a voracious invader
Blackchin tilapia, a west African fish first spotted in Thailand in 2011, has spread to at least 19 provinces, devastated shrimp farms, and triggered a lawsuit against agribusiness giant Charoen Pokph
Overcrowded and underfunded: Trump’s cuts to national parks threaten the US’s ‘best idea’
Trump administration budget cuts and mass firings have stripped the National Park Service of nearly a quarter of its permanent staff and slashed non-DC park project spending by 70%, leaving America's
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