Clean Energy

Grass and clover can provide more than animal feed

Researchers show grass and clover can replace soy feed and make carbon-capturing fuel.

Robots grow and package lettuce year-round in Norway's fully automated farm

Robots grow and package lettuce year-round at Norway's first fully automated farm.

Berlin’s REWE supermarket: the grocery store with a working rooftop farm

A Berlin grocery store grows its lettuce on the roof, using the store's own waste heat and

Circular economy pilot projects show hotels can reduce waste and costs

German hotels cut 423 kg of single-use plastic and 4.6 tons of waste in pilot tests.

A finely tuned mess—how disorder can make networks more stable

Differences between parts can make power grids and ecosystems more stable, not weaker.

Laser shocks turn plastic into ultra-small, high-purity nanodiamonds

Laser blasts squeeze plain plastic into ultra-small, high-purity diamonds — cleaner than explosions.

A new rulebook for designing stable dilute alloy catalysts

A tiny 1% of one metal in another could make fuel and plastic greener — scientists just cracked how

Disorder is key to tuning a high-temperature superconductor

A clean crystal, not extra electrons, is what makes iron selenide superconduct — a surprising

Sunnier Days Ahead? Solar Panels Are Now So Cheap It's Upending the Business World | PCMag

African countries could bring online over 17GW of solar power in 2026 alone.

Robotic lab sets up and runs optics experiments on demand

Robots now run optics tests that used to take scientists months of careful manual work.

51 ways to get the planet tipping the right way

51 ready-to-go fixes could trigger an unstoppable wave of positive environmental change.

The world’s largest battery-electric ferry just crossed an ocean

A 130-meter ferry is now the biggest electric vehicle ever built — and it just crossed an ocean.

Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge

India's power-sector CO2 stayed flat for two straight years for the first time in 50 years.

Iron, sulfur and purple light unlock greener carbon-carbon bond formation

Rice chemists use iron, sulfur and purple light for cheaper, greener drug-making reactions.

Earthshot and the science of positive tipping points: How environmental progress can become unstoppable

Small green wins can grow into unstoppable momentum, and Earthshot is discovering how.

Scientists turn seawater into fresh water without harmful brine

A laser-treated solar panel turns seawater into fresh water without leaving behind harmful salty

Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis

A war could cut global fossil-fuel emissions by 0.5% in 2026 as prices spike.

Irrigation’s climate benefit could equal 363 years of its own emissions

Irrigation stops 6.86 gigatons of emissions — 363 years of its own pollution.

The world’s first solar ambulance just completed its first real-world test in rural Kenya

A solar-powered ambulance just passed its first real-world test in remote Kenya, where the grid

US solar hits milestone, with enough installed capacity to generate power for 50 million homes

US solar now powers 50 million homes — one-third of all households in the country.