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The first regular production solar-powered electric trailer refrigeration unit (TRU) in Australia has hit the road with a real customer. Family-owned transport giant Wickham Freight Lines took delivery of the revolutionary reefer just this week. more . . .

A new rating system combines a "planet score" and a "people score" to see past confusing eco-labels. Tofu came out on top, and steak and cheese at the bottom.

Silent Springs zooms in on the young activists confronting climate change through civil disobedience, solidarity, and collective action.

Some DOE programs deserve to end. The problem is a budget request that cuts weak hydrogen bets while stripping support from technologies already delivering electrification. The post Trump's DOE Budget Request Cuts Weak Bets And Useful Energy Research Together appeared first on CleanTechnica.

In Boone, Iowa, a cottage cheese plant is meant to feed the protein craze, but some residents are worried about the manure.

Chemical plants and other industrial facilities had been required to curb their toxic emissions. A New York Times investigation shows how they got out of it.

For decades, scientists believed that plastics were some of the safest materials around. Now it's clear how flawed that view was.

Billionaire blackout or bad timing: "Musk" the documentary by Alex Gibney closes after just one week in theaters across the US. The post Who Killed The Elon Musk Movie? Nope, Not That Billionaire, Must Be Another One appeared first on CleanTechnica.

This year, Philadelphia is on track to have the lowest number of homicides since 1963. But over Fourth of July weekend, a heat dome stretching from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico descended, leaving 165 million people facing major or extreme heat. Cities including Boston, Baltimore, and Raleigh saw record temperatures, and readings in Philadelphia topped 100 degrees for three consecutive days. The sweltering city also saw a busy weekend for gun violence. Between July 2 and July 4, the Gun Violence Archive recorded nine shootings, leaving three dead and nine wounded. "Those who commit gun . . .

The most comprehensive record yet of carbon dioxide stored underground through geological carbon dioxide storage has been published today, revealing that 43.6 million metric tons were sequestered in 2024 alone-a new annual record-and that 421.7 million metric tons have now been stored in the past three decades.

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the water. Using machine learning and thousands of fossil measurements, Yale scientists have uncovered surprising clues about which prehistoric creatures truly became aquatic. Their findings suggest that Spinosaurus spent most of its life underwater, while some ancient marine reptiles previously thought to be fully aquatic actually spent considerable time on land.

More than a decade after the EPA found that Iowa wasn't cracking down on polluting factory farms, the state continues to hedge on enforcement. Story by Anika Jane Beamer, photos by Zach Spindler-Krage Feeding the Beast: Third in a series about lax regulation, corporate influence and the heavily polluting, yet nearly untouchable American meat industry.

Despite decades of market dominance, it seems like the days of loud, finicky, gas-powered mowers may finally be behind us; and I say that because – for the second year in a row! – the highest-rated lawnmowers on Amazon won't burn a drop of gas. more . . .

For nearly a century, people in distant parts of the world have reported a bizarre experience after eating certain wild mushrooms: seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny, colorful humans moving through the real world. Now, scientists have identified a mushroom species, Lanmaoa asiatica, responsible for these extraordinary hallucinations in China and the Philippines.

Electric scooters have carried just about everything at this point, from commuters and tourists to groceries and probably more than a few ill-advised passengers. But two riders in Charlotte, North Carolina, may have just raised the bar after police stopped them cruising down the street on an actual couch apparently powered by a pair of Lime electric scooters. more . . .

Volkswagen is offering its Chinese-market Jetta M6 electric sedan with nearly 290 miles of CLTC-rated range for less than $12,000 (USD), and if that's not what "der people's wagen" should be all about, I don't know what is. more . . .