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
Warming Trends: Putting Citizen Scientists to Work, Assuring Climate-Depressed Kids That the Future is Bright, and Deploying Solar-Hydrogen Generators By Katelyn Weisbrod
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
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
Qantas Says Synthetic Fuel Could Power Long Flights by Mid-2030s By James Fernyhough, The Financial Times
As SpaceX Grows, So Do Complaints From Environmentalists, Indigenous Groups and Brownsville Residents By Aman Azhar
Inside Clean Energy: Flow Batteries Could Be a Big Part of Our Energy Storage Future. So What’s a Flow Battery? By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: In a World Starved for Lithium, Researchers Develop a Method to Get It from Water By Dan Gearino
Warming Trends: Nature and Health Studies Focused on the Privileged, $1B for Climate School and Old Tires Detour Into Concrete By Katelyn Weisbrod
Inside Clean Energy: US Electric Vehicle Sales Soared in First Quarter, while Overall Auto Sales Slid By Dan Gearino
Proponents Say Storing Captured Carbon Underground Is Safe, But States Are Transferring Long-Term Liability for Such Projects to the Public By Nicholas Kusnetz
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
Occidental is Eyeing California’s Clean Fuels Market to Fund Texas Carbon Removal Plant By Nicholas Kusnetz
Inside Clean Energy: US Battery Storage Soared in 2021, Including These Three Monster Projects By Dan Gearino
Russia’s War in Ukraine Reveals a Risk for the EV Future: Price Shocks in Precious Metals By Marianne Lavelle