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Space Tourism Poses a Significant ‘Risk to the Climate’

Rockets launched by billionaires Elon Musk and Richard Branson emit black carbon in the stratosphere, where it is 500 times worse for the climate than it is on Earth. Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ rockets burn liquid hydrogen and oxygen and pose a lesser climate threat.

By Phil McKenna

People watch as the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 2019 in Titusville, Florida. The rocket is carrying a communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin into orbit. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Snow piles on the trees at Olympic National Park. Credit: D Logan/Classicstock/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Putting Citizen Scientists to Work, Assuring Climate-Depressed Kids That the Future is Bright, and Deploying Solar-Hydrogen Generators

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Yan Yao (left) and Ye Zhang work with solid-state sodium batteries.Credit: University of Houston

Inside Clean Energy: Solid-State Batteries for EVs Make a Leap Toward Mass Production

By Dan Gearino

Geothermal power station at Olkaria in Hells Gate National Park in Kenya. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Can Africa Grow Without Fossil Fuels?

By David Pilling, The Financial Times

Stacks emit steam at the Jim Bridger Power Plant Feb. 14, 2001 near Point of Rocks, Wyoming. Credit: Michael Smith/Newsmakers

In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Aerial view of a maintenance worker checking solar panels at a photovoltaic power station covered by snow at Qianjiang District on Jan. 17, 2021 in Chongqing, China. Credit: Ye Xingjian/VCG via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Think Solar Panels Don’t Work in Snow? New Research Says Otherwise

By Dan Gearino

Forecasters Tap High-Tech Tools as US Warns of Another Unusually Active Hurricane Season

By James Bruggers

An Airbus A350-1000 aircraft is seen inside a hangar at Sydney international airport on May 2, 2022, after the Australian airline Qantas announced it will launch the world's first non-stop commercial flights from Sydney to London and New York by the end of 2025. Credit: Wendell Teodoro /AFP via Getty Images

Qantas Says Synthetic Fuel Could Power Long Flights by Mid-2030s

By James Fernyhough, The Financial Times

SpaceX's first orbital Starship SN20 is stacked atop its massive Super Heavy Booster 4 at the company's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on Feb. 10, 2022. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

As SpaceX Grows, So Do Complaints From Environmentalists, Indigenous Groups and Brownsville Residents

By Aman Azhar

This shipping container holds a flow battery storage system developed by ESS Tech Inc. of Oregon. The company is aiming to meet the need for long-duration energy storage with batteries that can discharge electricity for up to 12 hours. Credit: ESS Tech

Inside Clean Energy: Flow Batteries Could Be a Big Part of Our Energy Storage Future. So What’s a Flow Battery?

By Dan Gearino

A rare earth elements magnetic separation loop system at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The equipment is used to extract rare earth elements from brines. Credit: Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Inside Clean Energy: In a World Starved for Lithium, Researchers Develop a Method to Get It from Water

By Dan Gearino

People take picture beneath cherry blossoms near the national assembly on April 09, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul's famous Yeouiseoro street is open for people to enjoy the cherry blossom season after two years of closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Credit: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Nature and Health Studies Focused on the Privileged, $1B for Climate School and Old Tires Detour Into Concrete

By Katelyn Weisbrod

CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing "Cyber Rodeo" grand opening party on April 7, 2022 in Austin, Texas. Credit: Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: US Electric Vehicle Sales Soared in First Quarter, while Overall Auto Sales Slid

By Dan Gearino

American Electric Power's Mountaineer coal power plant opened a carbon capture unit (center right), alongside the plant's cooling tower and stacks in 2009. The project later died. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Proponents Say Storing Captured Carbon Underground Is Safe, But States Are Transferring Long-Term Liability for Such Projects to the Public

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A three-dimensional lighting installation is pictured in Ganton Street on Nov. 10, 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The installation features 51 oversized LED light bulbs and was commissioned to James Glancey Design. Credit: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures

Inside Clean Energy: The Idea of Energy Efficiency Needs to Be Reinvented

By Dan Gearino

An aerial view of the campus at Texas A&M on Sept. 8, 2012 in College Station, Texas. Credit: Kevin Butts/Replay Photos via Getty Images

Texas A&M Shut Down a Major Climate Change Modeling Center in February After a ‘Default’ by Its Chinese Partner

By Kristoffer Tigue, Inside Climate News and Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle

A rendering of a planned direct air capture plant in Texas that would initially pull 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air annually. Occidental Petroleum, which is planning to build the plant, would use some or most of the carbon dioxide it captures to pump more oil out of depleted reservoirs. Credit: Carbon Engineering

Occidental is Eyeing California’s Clean Fuels Market to Fund Texas Carbon Removal Plant

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Battery blocks are be seen in a commercial battery park. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: US Battery Storage Soared in 2021, Including These Three Monster Projects

By Dan Gearino

A view shows nickel sheets at Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company, a unit of Russia's metals and mining company Nornickel, in the town of Monchegorsk in the Murmansk region on February 25, 2021. Credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images

Russia’s War in Ukraine Reveals a Risk for the EV Future: Price Shocks in Precious Metals

By Marianne Lavelle

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