From wildlife encounters to trail etiquette, discover how to avoid becoming a “touron” during your next national park adventure.
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at big funds flowing into long-duration battery makers and the impact of a big proposed cut to NOAA’s budget.
Elon Musk’s DOGE gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service early last year. It left fishing fleets, farmers and insurers exposed to the fallout
Why does an 89% climate majority keep losing? Because political power depends on more than numbers. The majority already exists. Now it must become visible.
Mass timber has broad appeal for project efficiency and sustainability, giving it a very long runway for growth and investment in the next few years.
As climate change becomes more severe, communities in regions like Isle de Jean Charles and Newtok are forced to adopt managed retreat in order to adapt.

The Green Chile pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s Project Jupiter data centre in New Mexico has been pushed from 15 August to 1 February 2027, according to a filing by Energy Transfer’s Transwestern unit. The state land commissioner has twice refused t…

Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator at Plattsburgh International Airport on 12 August, the company announced. The aircraft taxied, took off, climbed, manoeuvred and landed. It reached 335 metres, and its all-electric propulsion produced more than …

Start with the number, because it is the kind that settles an argument. In the first quarter of 2026, panel makers shipped 298 million displays into the refurbished phone market. They shipped 289 million to the companies that make new phones. The refur…

Nuclear reactors need water. They sit beside rivers and coastlines for a reason. The water carries heat away from the core. When it runs low or runs warm, the reactor has to power down. That is happening across Europe right now. On Thursday, Romania’s …