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On July 3, as a heat wave swept the region, New York State’s grid imported 52 gigawatt-hours of electricity from Canada—enough to meet about 9% of its total electricity demand that day. Some of that power shuttled in on a 339-mile power line stretching from Quebec to Queens called the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE).…
The latest estimates reveal that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale events such as the FIFA World Cup stem from spectators traveling to host cities.
Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.
It feels as if it should be illegal to even think about heating appliances during the height of summer—seriously, these heat waves in New York have been brutal—but we need to talk about heat pumps. The appliances use electricity for heating, they’re incredibly efficient, and they’re on the rise. (For what it’s worth, many heat…
Data centers are driving up the company’s use of electricity—and carbon pollution.
It's too hot. There, we said it. Protect your health and keep your home cool with one of these top-rated air conditioners.
As extreme heat becomes the norm on the continent, the AC culture wars may be solved by advances in environmentally friendly technology.
I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power. Last year the Trump administration set a goal to see three new microreactors achieve criticality, a technical milestone establishing that a reactor can…
As worries about a growing super El Niño mount, new findings suggest a radical solution to mitigating its impacts.
Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land in Hickman, a tiny town in the state’s agricultural heartland. He reaches down with both hands and pulls up a clump of muck, turning it over to reveal a half-dozen squirming red earthworms.…
Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson.
A new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our planet’s climate.
Something stinks in California’s climate policies. Years ago, the state set up a system that pays cattle farmers across the country to turn the methane emitted from cattle manure into natural gas, encouraging the dairy sector to produce a gas we burn instead of one that just pollutes the air. It’s become wildly popular because…
Gov. Ron DeSantis calls it a crackdown on "radical climate policies."
Heat pumps are more than just a way to keep your home comfortable without using fossil fuels.
Rock weathering may release or draw down carbon dioxide—it depends on the rock.
Europeans are baking under their second heat wave of the summer.
It’s been hard to look away from headlines about the European heat wave this week. Temperatures are breaking records across the continent, and the weather is threatening lives, shutting down schools, and in one particularly ironic case, forcing the cancellation of a London Climate Action Week event about extreme heat. As the summer ramps up…