Archive for November 2023

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The recipe for a fossil-free future includes a big dollop of solar — and in recent years, that solar has started popping up all around the U.S. But where, exactly, are the country’s major solar…

Oklo , a nuclear power upstart developing advanced “microreactor” technology, suffered another setback in what has been a tumultuous year for the firm. In August, Oklo was tentatively chosen as the contractor to build a microreactor at Alaska’s Eielson Air Force Base by the end of 2027 — a major vote of confidence…

Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Water heaters toil away, often unseen in basements and garages, to keep our showers hot, clothes cleansed and pets bathed — and in the…

The Biden administration is investing $40.8 million into new centers to train students and workers for the rapidly growing clean energy economy. The energy transition depends on a skilled workforce, one that can manufacture EVs and batteries, install electric heat pumps and pinpoint the ways that buildings and…

This story was first published by Grist . The liquefied natural gas, or LNG, industry has exploded across the U.S. Gulf Coast over the past decade, burying once-remote shorelines under hundreds of acres of concrete and steel where the fossil fuel is cooled so it can be shipped across the globe. The war in Ukraine…

Severe heat killed upwards of 70,000 people in Europe in the summer of 2022, according to a new study.

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When Cyclone Freddy walloped southern Africa last March, Malawi’s farmers — mostly women — lost their land, livestock, and livelihoods. Already desperately poor, they are struggling to recover in a nation considered one of the world’s most affected by extreme weather events.

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On November 15, Canary Media contributing reporter Nicole Pollack sat down with author and activist Bill McKibben, who has been writing and organizing on climate change for decades — and who was instrumental in defeating the Keystone XL pipeline — to discuss what the country’s rapid buildout of liquefied natural gas…

Canary Media’s Down to the Wire column tackles the more complicated challenges of decarbonizing our energy systems. California may be one of the first states to face the risk of its power grid growing too slowly to support the surging adoption of electric vehicles, heat pumps and more — but it won’t be the last. …