The U.S. is currently ahead of the European Union in reducing dependence on foreign critical minerals and will depend on imports of these materials in the long term.
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how SpaceX’s IPO could leave Tesla eating rocket dust and the need for better forest management in a warming world
The U.S. government is offering companies $24 million to prototype and test projects that retrieve rare earth critical minerals from scrap to make into advanced magnets.
Virginia joins Maine and Utah in allowing their citizens to cash in on cheap solar power with plug-in-solar systems.
New guidance for private industry plus a new test bed facility are set to speed widespread nuclear energy development in microreactors.
The world’s first fossil fuel phaseout conference gathers 57 countries representing over 50% of global GDP, signaling a major shift in climate policy, energy security and global markets.
Half a billion Africans already have electricity. The trouble is, it barely works. Fixing that — city by city, grid by grid — is now the mission.
Cooling demand is accelerating worldwide, creating a major energy challenge and a critical opportunity to scale innovative, low‑carbon solutions through better finance.
As airlines trim schedules and raise baggage fees, one question is harder to avoid: how much unnecessary flying was built into the system in the first place? And amid rising costs, who thinks of sustainability?
The 2026 Europe Report of the Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health, warns heat-related deaths have increasing with an estimated 62,000 in 2024.