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Meta Plans Cloud Business to Sell Excess AI Compute
Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure business to sell access to its excess AI computing power and models, positioning the company as a direct competitor to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Cleaner Clouds Offset Warming Current Models Miss
Falling atmospheric dust is making clouds more reflective, offsetting roughly a quarter of the heating from other atmospheric changes — an effect current climate models don't capture, a new study find
Kempower, PowerUp Open First of 12 SE EV Charging Sites
Kempower and PowerUp America have opened the first of 12 planned DC fast charging stations across the U.S. Southeast, debuting at a 24/7 site in Manchester, Kentucky with up to 800 kW of available pow
Ford’s $30,000 EV pickup captured testing again as new details emerge
Ford's upcoming $30,000 midsize electric pickup was spotted testing again in Arizona, with new spy shots revealing design details and a first look at the interior touchscreen as Ford ramps up developm
Toyota’s electric SUV clears 17,500 sales, outpacing the Land Cruiser and key EV rivals
Toyota's redesigned 2026 bZ electric SUV hit 17,553 sales in the first half of 2026, up 90% year-over-year, outselling the Land Cruiser and Chevy Equinox EV while still trailing the Hyundai IONIQ 5 in
Sicily is now home to Italy’s largest solar farm
Spain's Iberdrola has switched on its 243 MW Fénix solar farm in Sicily, making it Italy's largest solar installation — producing enough electricity to power 140,000+ homes and displacing a 170 MW fac
Tesla Semi First Fatal Crash Kills 2 in Nevada
A Tesla Semi was involved in its first known fatal crash on June 28 in Nevada, killing two people when its driver reportedly fell asleep and struck vehicles stopped at a red light, prompting fresh scr
Equinox EV Sales Drop 41%, New Bolt and Cadillac Save GM
GM held onto its #2 US EV-seller ranking in H1 2026 even as its top-selling Chevy Equinox EV saw sales crater 41%, with the new $28,995 Bolt and Cadillac's record-breaking luxury EVs absorbing the imp
BYD set to crush Tesla again in Q2 EV sales with 557,000 deliveries
BYD reclaimed its position as the world's largest maker of fully electric vehicles in Q2 2026 with 557,090 BEV deliveries, surpassing Tesla's expected 396,500 by more than 160,000 units and reversing
Jersey Water Demand Hits 2022 Drought High
Jersey Water is urging islanders to conserve water after June's heatwave drove demand to its highest level since the 2022 drought, with consumers burning through nearly 5% of stored supply in a single
New Orleans residents split over 'point of no return' climate study
A Tulane study concluding New Orleans has hit a 'point of no return' on climate-driven submersion has drawn fierce local pushback — even as community groups quietly scout inland Mississippi cities as
Charge your EV at home and get paid up to CA$350 a year in Canada
ChargeLab has boosted its home EV-charging rewards program to 10 cents per kWh for Canadian single-family homeowners, making it the country's highest-paying carbon-credit offer of its kind with averag
Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and reversible
A new Utrecht University climate model finds that Greenland meltwater would weaken the Atlantic overturning circulation gradually — not collapse it irreversibly — and the current would fully recover w
Banks are financing the fossil fuel industry’s next growth strategy
Two new reports reveal the world's largest banks increased fossil fuel financing to record levels in 2025 and are now bankrolling the industry's strategic pivot to petrochemicals, plastics, and fertil
Neil the 1,000kg seal terrorises Tasmania
A roughly 1,000-kilogram elephant seal named Neil has returned to southern Tasmania for another annual visit, crushing fences, bashing into cars and sparring with bollards — and the locals love him fo
ScottishPower Pays £1,575 to Solar Panel Homeowner
ScottishPower took seven months to register a homeowner's solar feed-in tariff transfer and another month to deliver promised back payments, ultimately paying £1,575 in backdated dues plus £200 in goo
When the right denies the true danger of heatwaves, ask yourself this: whose children’s lives is it willing to risk? | George Monbiot
Guardian columnist George Monbiot argues that right-wing British newspapers are minimizing heatwave health risks by romanticizing the 1976 summer as a model of national toughness, even as evidence sho
Gutweed Maps Pollution at Charmouth Beach
At Charmouth beach on the Dorset coast, a nature diary traces how the density of bright-green gutweed seaweed maps nutrient pollution from the River Char outflow, thinning as seawater improves further
Ocean Surface Temperatures Hit Record June High
Ocean surface temperatures set a new June record on the 21st, surpassing the 2023 and 2024 highs, as a strong developing El Niño threatens to push global heat into uncharted territory through the summ
‘But we’re just 1% of emissions’: do smaller countries’ climate efforts matter?
The 'just 1% of emissions' argument, used by Sunak, Morrison, Merz, and Meloni to justify weaker climate targets, was cited 200 times across newspapers of 27 countries emitting less than 2% of global
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