environment

CNBC got an inside look at former Tesla CTO JB Straubel’s lithium-ion battery recycling start-up.

The Duke of Cambridge is not the only member of Britain’s royal family to express views on the environment.

China accounts for around 30% of the world’s CO2 emissions, more than twice that of the U.S., but it’s spending more on clean energy development.

Since its $1.5 billion U.S. initial public offering last year, Xpeng Motors has raised money to fuel growth and battle against domestic rivals as well as Tesla.

China could end up exceeding its emissions reduction targets as a result of carbon-intensive bitcoin mining, according to a study published this week.

How TerraPower, co-founded by Bill Gates, is designing next gen nuclear power plants that it says are safer, cheaper and more efficient.

The band Coldplay is sponsoring a waste “Interceptor” that’s floating down the Klang River in Malaysia. The Ocean Cleanup uses these to remove plastic from the waterway.

In addition to plastics, cigarette butts and food wrappers that sully Jersey Shore sand each year, the group’s volunteers removed 1,113 masks and other pieces of virus-related protective gear from New Jersey beaches last fall

As demand for meat alternatives grows across the globe, Singaporean food start-up Karana is taking a bite of the market using just plants.

Starbucks has pledged to discontinue disposable cups in South Korea by 2025 as it aims to cut its global landfill waste in half by the end of the decade.

Bitcoin mining is extremely energy intensive, and around 65% of the world’s bitcoin was mined in China as of April 2020, according to Statista.

Pope Francis published a call this week for collective focus on migrants forced to leave their homes because of climate change’s effects on their homelands.

The world’s foremost economic superpowers are turning their attention to climate change as the next path to commercial supremacy.

If signed into law, Biden’s infrastructure plan would rank as one of the largest federal efforts ever to curb U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

The move is part of President Biden’s broader effort to restore morale and scientific integrity at the EPA after Trump’s consistent dismissal of human-caused climate change.

Some students at a British university said the statue of climate activist Greta Thunberg was a waste of money.

A now unpublished press release called the change a “public declaration of the company’s future-forward investment in e-mobility.”

Lexus is planning to introduce 20 new vehicles globally by 2025, at least half of which will be all-electric or electrified hybrid models.

The U.S. wants to expand its offshore wind capacity to 30 gigawatts by 2030, a move the Biden administration hopes will generate jobs and investments.

Biden’s infrastructure plan will likely include record spending on mitigating climate change and accelerating a clean energy transition.