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Companies including Tesla and Base Power are vying for a piece of the rapidly growing market for home batteries. One technology has made it all possible.

Battery materials startup Anthro Energy has broken ground on a Louisville factory to make electrolytes, including those for solid-state batteries.

Research shows heat amplifies the dangers of pesticides.

Sonic Fire Protection raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings.

In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient root of North America. There her team of geochemists found water that had been confined underground for more than a billion years. This ancient brine turned out to be a habitat…

Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains.

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.

This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere. June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began. The contiguous US endured its hottest month on record in July. South Korea saw its highest-ever recorded temperature. The heat isn’t over yet, but some scientists are already looking ahead…

Lee McIntire, an independent member of Fermi's board, has been hired as CEO, more than three months since the company fired co-founder Toby Neugebauer from the top post.

Tesla wants to build a massive solar factory in Texas, but first it wants the state to chip in to defray the costs.

Form Energy has landed Google and Crusoe as customers. Now, it has raised $750 million to expand manufacturing to deliver its massive, 100-hour batteries.

Reservoir has built an ultra-efficient water heater that can predict hot water demand, store energy, and detect plumbing leaks throughout a home.

Hot hours of summer could triple in the coming decades.

Fusion power startups are turning to Kyoto Fusioneering to supply components for future power pants. The Japan-based startup just received a grant to build a part of the fuel system.

Battery materials startup Sila will use a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to scale production at its factory in Washington State.

Are you interested in leveraging AI, remote sensing, and data-driven solutions to tackle climate change and public health challenges? The Climate & Wellbeing Hackathon—hosted by Nims University Rajasthan and the World Health Summit Academic Alliance in collaboration with Khushi Baby—is officially open for registrations! 🎯 About the Hackathon Climate change directly impacts human, animal, and environmental health. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, air pollution, and changing disease patterns pose severe threats to global wellbeing. This virtual hackathon bridges the gap between scientific research and field execution to create actionable policy guidance and real-world technology interventions. 🏆 Prizes & Recognition The Top 2 Innovative Ideas will receive The Dr. B.S. Tomar Innovation Award at the prestigious World Health Summit Academic Alliance - Expert Meeting on Climate & Wellbeing. 🛠️ Problem Statements & Tracks ☀️ Hazard: Heat Near-real-time heat-health burden nowcast (Public-health surveillance / Data fusion) Build an excess-illness/mortality index by fusing open environmental & proxy-demand signals to nowcast heat stress days ahead. Satellite rooftop heat-vulnerability classifier & cool-roof prioritisation engine (Climate adaptation / Remote sensing) Automatically identify and rank urban rooftops that urgently need cooling to produce an operational work-order. From action plans to living, tracked decisions (Climate-health governance / Decision-support) Develop a copilot to benchmark plans, operationalise daily actions, and monitor public feeds to map heat-health intervention gaps. Early heat-strain warning for outdoor & informal workers (Occupational health / Edge AI & sensing) Build a smartphone-based system estimating personal heat strain with local-language guidance and zero extra hardware. Heat-surge readiness for the health system (Operations research) Build decision-support tools to help health systems prepare ahead of forecast heat spikes. 🌬

The massive Toba eruption seems to have had little climate impact.

As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.

The Trump administration has now convinced developers to abandon 12 offshore wind leases. The latest will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion.