Climate Technology
All Stories
-
![A person drinks a frozen Starbucks drink with a green straw]()
![A person drinks a frozen Starbucks drink with a green straw]()
Your ‘widely recyclable’ Starbucks cup is still trash
A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.
-
![Construction of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company "megafab" plant in Phoenix. The Taiwanese company is investing $165 billion in multiple plants in the region.]()
![Construction of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company "megafab" plant in Phoenix. The Taiwanese company is investing $165 billion in multiple plants in the region.]()
Arizona’s water is drying up. That’s not stopping the data center rush.
Though tech companies are secretive about their water usage, Arizona’s 150-plus data centers and chip factories use a tiny fraction of the state’s supply.
-
![Meta's Stanton Springs Data Center is seen Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Newton County, East of Atlanta.]()
![Meta's Stanton Springs Data Center is seen Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Newton County, East of Atlanta.]()
Utilities in the Southeast may be overestimating the AI boom
Power companies are already building more costly fossil fuel infrastructure than data centers may actually need.
-
![Sunlight glows through the steam of a geothermal power plant in Niland in California.]()
![Sunlight glows through the steam of a geothermal power plant in Niland in California.]()
Geothermal could replace almost half of the EU’s fossil fuel power
Advances in drilling and subsurface engineering are unlocking a constant, clean power source deep within the Earth.
-
![ALASKA, UNITED STATES - 2012/01/01: Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breeching in Icy Strait near Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, USA. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)]()
![ALASKA, UNITED STATES - 2012/01/01: Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breeching in Icy Strait near Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, USA. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)]()
Indigenous concerns surface as Trump calls for seabed mining in Alaskan waters
“It really feels like another false solution.”
-
![The Montezuma Wetlands of Solano County are seen in an aerial photograph.]()
![The Montezuma Wetlands of Solano County are seen in an aerial photograph.]()
Inside the polarizing plan to stash carbon in a California wetland
A proposal to store carbon dioxide deep below a Bay Area wetland is testing how — and where — California pursues climate solutions.
-
![The research ship Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, is shown berthed in Shimizu, Japan.]()
![The research ship Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, is shown berthed in Shimizu, Japan.]()
Japan’s unprecedented project could test the limits of deep-sea mining
Japan is spending five weeks mining the seafloor. It is a technological milestone — and a stress test for how nations balance geopolitics, clean energy demand, and environmental risk.
-
![A snow-covered mountain range behind a data center]()
![A snow-covered mountain range behind a data center]()
Can you build data centers in a desert without draining the water supply? Utah is finding out.
Politicians are pushing for one of the driest states to become a haven for data centers.
-
![A sprawling industrial site with a large, unfinished barrier wall trenched into a lake playa]()
![A sprawling industrial site with a large, unfinished barrier wall trenched into a lake playa]()
The country’s largest magnesium supplier shut down. Now what?
What US Magnesium's bankruptcy means for the supply of a critical mineral -- and the environment.
-
![Disturbed earth from mining is visible with a lake and mountains in the background.]()
![Disturbed earth from mining is visible with a lake and mountains in the background.]()
A huge cache of critical minerals found in Utah may be the largest in the US
The discovery could reshape the clean energy supply chain.
