About us

Tokyo has logged 34 straight days of rain, the longest streak on record, Japan's weather agency said Tuesday.

Sustainable AI Group, the company co-founded by former Salesforce sustainability manager Boris Gamazaychikov, has released a resource for measuring the energy and emissions produced by proprietary artificial intelligence models. The approach, called CLEER (or Closed-model Latent Energy Estimation Range), will be available as a free, open resource that Sustainable AI Group said will become more accurate as more organizations use it. The methodology converts a company's use of tokens - the text processed by enterprise AI models from the likes of Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI - . . .

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government is proposing a more than sevenfold increase in funding for its electric vehicle program in 2027 as electric vehicle sales accelerate and the country works to build the charging infrastructure needed to support them. The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has proposed P228.92 ... [continued] The post Philippines Boosts EV Infrastructure Budget as Charging Network Faces Expansion Test appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Summit serves as an operational audit of EV progress in the Philippines MANILA, Philippines - When the 14th Philippine Electric Vehicle Summit (PEVS) opens its doors this October, the exhibition floor will look, to casual visitors, like a conventional automotive trade fair. Bright spotlights will bounce off polished sheet metal, ... [continued] The post Op-Ed: Upcoming Philippine Electric Vehicle Summit is an Audit of National Policy appeared first on CleanTechnica.

A five-stop concert tour in Quebec ran entirely on two Chevrolet Silverado EVs and a 150 kWh mobile power plant this summer. No diesel generator, and no hookup to the grid. I went to the final show, held in a grocery store parking lot in Montreal's Saint-Henri neighborhood, and everything from the speakers to the stage lights to the kitchen was running off batteries. more . . .

Hurricane Polo made landfall on Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Tuesday, cutting power and causing flooding as the sea breached coastal defenses.

Giraffes living in the South Sudan's war-torn savannas are genetically healthy and connected to nearby giraffe populations by gene flow, despite decades of conflict, recent research suggests. These findings show that "regions of the world that have been affected by conflict can maintain a lot of biodiversity and should therefore not be overlooked by genetic studies and conservation efforts," Sam van Giessen, study lead author and a conservation genomics researcher from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, told Mongabay by email. The IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, . . .

Hyundai is preparing to introduce two new electric SUVs, the IONIQ 4 and IONIQ 7, filling two key gaps in its EV lineup. more . . .

True Volkswagen - following the ID. Polo and ID. Cross, Volkswagen is bringing its third major model name into the era of electromobility with the new ID. Tiguan New-generation electric SUV - with its completely new design, the ID. Tiguan has the visual presence of a vehicle from the next ... [continued] The post Electric Future, Established Name: The New ID. Tiguan Premieres in October appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Tesla was just granted a patent for an "Electric Fan Car," a system that uses four electric ducted fans in the rear diffuser to suck the car down to the road at any speed. The car in the drawings is a Model S, which Tesla stopped building in April. It's Tesla's second fan car patent in just over a year, and it arrives two weeks before the company's latest attempt at a Roadster demo. more . . .

The South Asian summer monsoon has long been known to shape the Mediterranean climate thousands of kilometers away as part of a phenomenon known as the "monsoon–desert" mechanism. Through this mechanism, intense monsoon convection during the summer releases large amounts of heat into the atmosphere, triggering large-scale circulation changes that promote sinking air over the Mediterranean. This process suppresses clouds and rainfall and contributes to the Mediterranean region's hot, dry climate.

Extending some 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) along the length of Italy, the Apennine Mountains present a challenging puzzle for geologists. In some places, the mountains are steadily being stretched apart, while in regions just tens of kilometers away, they are squeezing together.

As president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro not only weakened regulations and gutted agencies charged with protecting the Amazon, he also encouraged the clearing of forest. An analysis of his tweets and those of his ministers finds a link between their rhetoric and the acres of forest lost. Read more on E360 →

I served at a secretive military installation in Nevada, which the U.S. government now admits contains nuclear contamination. But there's a catch.

Lakes may cover only a small fraction of Earth's surface, but new research suggests they play a bigger role in regulating the planet's climate than previously recognized. By reflecting sunlight back into space when covered in snow and ice, lakes in the Northern Hemisphere have a stronger cooling effect than the surrounding land.

While talks on an international plastics treaty remain deadlocked, California is starting a process that could lead to microplastics regulation. On Oct. 1, the state will add microplastics to a list of substances that evidence suggests may be harmful to people or the environment and are candidates for increased regulation.

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast.

In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.

Under the new law, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation must track pesticides containing PFAS in its publicly accessible database and monitor how these pesticides are used over time.