Climate Change

Colocation execs fret about sustainability as world eyes water, energy use

What, you thought green tech shift will come from the good of their hearts?

On-Prem09 Dec 2022 | 3

Energy being expensive and trickier to source is good news ... for renewables

Green tech will be largest power source by 2025, says IEA, but even accelerated rollouts might not stave off disaster

Science07 Dec 2022 | 38

US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy

Socio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers

Science05 Dec 2022 | 22

NASA scraps budget-busting GeoCarb greenhouse gas observatory project

Being over budget, behind schedule, becoming obsolete, and impeding other projects isn't a way to get a green light

Science30 Nov 2022 | 10

Amazon founder Bezos to donate 'majority' of $126bn fortune

Comment Climate change goals? Tick. Upping wages and improving working conditions for warehouse staff? Come on Jeff, charity begins at home

Offbeat15 Nov 2022 | 39

Semiconductor Climate Consortium aims to cut chipmaking carbon emissions

Maybe they can use more renewable energy – oh crap, that needs semiconductors too

Systems08 Nov 2022 | 3

DoE supercomputing centers get $1.5B boost from Biden administration

US government opens purse strings as China eats into America's former lead

HPC07 Nov 2022 | 1

NASA uses space station dust sensor to map 50 methane 'super-emitters' on Earth

Oh, we don't think we needed science to pinpoint biggest windbags

Science30 Oct 2022 | 41

Bill Gates' green investments to shift from tackling climate change to mitigating impacts

Refocuses on adaption technologies while oil industry continues to receive billions in government subsidies

Science26 Oct 2022 | 28

California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal

Time to start considering forest blazes alongside industrial sources of greenhouse gases, say scientists

Science20 Oct 2022 | 33

Hardware makers criticized for eco double standards

Canalys Channels Forum Don't penalize resellers for selling refurbished kit, educate shareholders on being Earth's friend

Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 20

Founder of zero-emissions truck venture Nikola found guilty of $1b fraud

Verdict in for trial where promo vid showed gravity rather than batteries or fuel cells keeping electric truck moving

Science19 Oct 2022 | 26

Self-imposed climate change may have killed Martian life

Hungry microbes blamed for chilling out the party too much

Science11 Oct 2022 | 27

Waxworm's spit shows promise in puncturing plastic pollution

Scientists believe moth larvae saliva can oxidize, degrade polyethylene

Science05 Oct 2022 | 20

Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists

Researchers mince 'digital gold' claims with study showing cryptocurrency's impact

Science30 Sep 2022 | 39

Wind, solar fulfill 10% of global electricity demand for first time

Curb your enthusiasm – coal-fired power went up too

Science29 Sep 2022 | 54

California to phase out gas furnaces, water heaters by 2030

It'll reduce emissions a bunch, but stress the grid even more

Science26 Sep 2022 | 124

Researchers build ML models to forecast food shortages

Secondary data in weather, macro-economics to help governments and orgs figure out where to focus their aid

AI + ML16 Sep 2022 | 3

Climate change prevention plans 'way off track', says UN

To stay under threshold of 1.5°C of warming, the world needs to work seven times harder, says the UN's WMO

Science14 Sep 2022 | 81

South Korea takes massive step toward sustainable nuclear fusion reactions

Plasma at over 100 million kelvin for 20 seconds adds to list of noteworthy fusion breakthroughs in 2022

Science08 Sep 2022 | 18

Scientists pull hydrogen from thin air in promising clean energy move

Could replace fossil fuels in several energy-hungry industries in hot climates without water use

Science07 Sep 2022 | 122

Xcel smart thermostat users lose their cool after power company locks them out

They were asking for it, energy giant says

Personal Tech01 Sep 2022 | 70

California to try tackling drought with canal-top solar panels

Watt an interesting idea

Science31 Aug 2022 | 91

Lessons to be learned from Google and Oracle's datacenter heatstroke

Comment It's getting hot in here so take down all your nodes

On-Prem22 Aug 2022 | 28

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

Opinion Of all the non-carbon energy options we have, this is the only one which can keep the lights on

Science15 Aug 2022 | 515

Alibaba's e-commerce arm counts carbon to encourage you to buy more stuff

Encourages 'eco friendly' consumer choices in exchange for discounts

Software09 Aug 2022 | 6

Bill Gates venture backs effort to bring aircon startup to market

Supports liquid desiccant tech to store energy to smooth bumps in demand, lower greenhouse gas impact

Science29 Jul 2022 | 63

Datacenter operator groups pledge to cut water consumption

Promise to get themselves into gear by 2040. Plenty of time, right?

On-Prem28 Jul 2022 | 6

BASF looks to quantum computing to improve weather modeling

Chemical giant's work with Pasqal could help improve climate change models too

HPC20 Jul 2022 | 2

Google, Oracle clouds still affected by UK heatwave

Some hard disks appear to have cooked, along with bit barn designers' best laid plans

Off-Prem20 Jul 2022 | 22

Copper shortage keeps green energy, tech ventures grounded

Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P

Science15 Jul 2022 | 62

2050 carbon emission goals need nuclear to succeed, says International Energy Agency

Without it, $500b more in investments is needed to reach C-neutrality

Science01 Jul 2022 | 88

US weather forecasters triple supercomputing oomph with latest machines

NOAA makes it rain for General Dynamics IT, HPE, AMD

HPC28 Jun 2022 | 12

Corporate investments are a massive hidden source of carbon emissions

Just because companies are publicly decreasing carbon footprints doesn't mean their cash isn't doing the opposite

On-Prem19 May 2022 | 18

Amazon's solution to save the planet: AWS vouchers, training for more eco startups

Web giant is used to seeing green

PaaS + IaaS03 May 2022 | 2

What will help enterprises meet sustainability goals? Algorithms, says Oracle

If you want to retain customers, Big Red recommends putting AI in charge

AI + ML20 Apr 2022 | 3

Climate model code is so outdated, MIT starts from scratch

Julia replaces Fortran as the basis for Earth's new digital twin

HPC13 Apr 2022 | 106

Swedish firms ink deal to make green hydrogen with wind power

Last week, colocating datacenters and sewage plants: this week, renewables and H₂ producers

On-Prem12 Apr 2022 | 86

Microsoft datacenter to heat homes in Finland

Turns out the internet is a set of tubes after all

Systems17 Mar 2022 | 36

Midwest tornado destroys Amazon warehouse, killing six after worker 'told not to leave'

Updated More than eighty feared dead across multiple US states hit by super storms

On-Prem13 Dec 2021 | 44

Tech bro CEOs claim their crowns because they fix problems. Why shirk the biggest one?

Opinion Saving the planet is sexier than the next iPhone

Personal Tech15 Nov 2021 | 77

Motivated by commerce, not conscience, Google bans ads for climate change consensus contradictors

Publishers won't get ads, advertisers won't get a voice, nobody will be spared weeks of tedious culture wars

Personal Tech08 Oct 2021 | 44

Intel sponsors report on tech's role in decarbonisation and the irony isn't lost on us

Making computer components is a dirty business

On-Prem22 Jun 2021 |

Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster

Review 'Every country will need to change its ways' says Microsoft billionaire

Science16 Feb 2021 | 133

Forget sharks with lasers, NASA kits out an elephant seal with a sensor-studded skullcap

We're never gonna survive unless, we get a little crazy

Science06 Dec 2019 | 39

Holy crappuccino. There's a latte trouble brewing... Bio-boffins reckon 60%+ of coffee species may be doomed

Climate change is going to make Monday mornings much, much, much more of a grind

Science21 Jan 2019 | 144

How alien civilizations deal with climate is a measure of how smart they are. Just sayin'...

Did, did these bio-boffins just sass us?

Science08 Sep 2017 | 55

Antarctica declared world's most volcanic region as 91 new cones found beneath ice

Awaken not the Elder Things, lest they and their shoggoths again battle foul Cthulhu

Science14 Aug 2017 | 51

Tech industry thumps Trump's rump over decision to leave Paris climate agreement

Combined might of Microsoft, Musk and other tech titans couldn't persuade Prez to stay in climate pact

Legal02 Jun 2017 | 116

Elon to dump Trump over climate bump

Tesla boss says he won't work with The Donald if global warming deal snubbed

Legal01 Jun 2017 | 188

President Donald Trump taken on by unlikely foe: Badass park rangers

Censorship efforts backfire on President Snowflake and team

Legal25 Jan 2017 | 250

Climate change bust up: We'll launch our own damn satellites if Trump pulls plug – Gov Brown

Super Cali goes ballistic over claims global warming's bogus

Science14 Dec 2016 | 153

Bill Gates joins $170bn climate change investment club

Clean tech on the list

Science13 Dec 2016 | 83

Perlan 2: The glider that will slip the surly bonds of Earth – and touch the edge of space

Sailplane en route to Argentina for sky-scraping test flights

Science04 Aug 2016 | 86

Blocking out the Sun won't fix climate change – but it could buy us time

Refreeze the poles... giant magnifying glass... What shall we do?

Science23 Nov 2015 | 179

Top boffin Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more

Interview When physics gurus speak, they speak to El Reg

Science11 Oct 2015 | 197