The skies may haverained on this year’s big climate summit in Belém, Brazil, but engineers have invented plenty of exciting climate tech this year worth celebrating. Here are some of the year’s top ...

Stanford will host its second annual Climate Week from Oct. 20-26, featuring over 60 events across campus. After a successful first Climate Week last April that included over 40 events, 30 partner ...

Things aren’t great, but there are a few positive signs, we promise. Climate news hasn’t been great in 2025. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit record highs (again). This year is set to be either the ...

New findings challenge the widespread belief that AI is an environmental villain. By analyzing U.S. economic data and AI usage across industries, researchers discovered that AI’s energy ...

One project aims to harness local geothermal resources to pull CO2 from the air. Will it prove that carbon removal can really help our warming planet? The earth around Lake Naivasha, a shallow ...

Trane Technologies’ grant supports STEM programs that help build future talent for climate, refrigeration, and cold chain industries. Hands-on STEM education and paid student programs strengthen ...

For the last 20 years, Bruce Appelgate has helped send America’s scientists out to sea. From a port in San Diego, the academic maritime expert oversees more than a dozen federal and university ...

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The House of Representatives cleared the way for a massive overhaul of the federal environmental review process on Thursday, despite last-minute changes that led clean energy groups and moderate ...

President Donald Trump’s social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), said on Thursday that it’s merging with TAE Technologies, a Southern California-based company that has been ...

Billions of dollars are flowing into humanoid robot startups, as investors bet that the industry will soon put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms. Many leaders of those ...

If 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check, 2026 will be the year the tech gets practical. The focus is already shifting away from building ever-larger language models and toward the harder work of ...