Climate

Surprise! Donald Trump's big, audacious ambition to buy Greenland from Denmark has a tech angle. Ken Howery, named as U.S. President-elect Trump's pick to be the next ambassador to the country (and thus chief broker of any deal), is one more part of the rich seam of tech people running thro

Critical minerals are the new oil: Everyone needs them, but not every country has them. That's led some to search for them in some pretty wild places. And few places are as outlandish as the ocean deep. But deep-sea mining appears poised to get a boost from the incoming Trump administration, a

Google has agreed to purchase 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits from Indian startup Varaha, its first such deal with a carbon project in India and the largest involving biomass-produced biochar (also called horticultural charcoal or “black gold” for soils). The offtake agr

Data centers are expected to continue growing at a breakneck pace, doubling their power demand by 2029, according to a new report from JLL. The industry's expansion, fueled by the rapid growth of AI alongside the continued expansion of cloud-based services, is testing the limits of the energy

Watch Duty, an app to track wildfires with live maps and alerts, has become the No. 1 free app in Apple’s App Store as of Wednesday morning. The fire-tracking app surpassed the ChatGPT app for the No. 1 spot as devastating fires continue to rage across Southern California. ChatGPT had been in

Tim Barat loved being a lineman at an electric company in Australia, where he grew up, even in the chaos of the Black Saturday brushfires in 2009 that torched over 1 million acres and left many without power or homes. But when he moved to the U.S. in 2013, his wife was less enthusiastic about him c

There's a mismatch in climate tech investing: Well over half of all dollars invested since 2020 have flowed into startups working on energy and transportation, according to Sightline Climate. “It's awesome to see those solutions doing well,” Michael Luciani, founding partner at Juniper

Humans have an innate desire to name things, but to be honest, we're not always that good at it. Take climate tech: It's a category of companies and technologies that, broadly speaking, seek to minimize or reverse our impact on the climate while also helping us adapt to its increasing chan

Over the last decade, the Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) has graduated from dorm room activism to a thousands-strong global network of experts, investors, and “ecopreneurs” — all of whom believe the best way to save the ailing oceans is to embrace innovation. Founder Daniela Fernandez has s

Commonwealth Fusion Systems will build its first commercial-scale power plant just outside of Richmond, Virginia, the company announced Tuesday, with a goal of hooking it up to the grid in the early 2030s. Fusion power has long been derided as being decades away, but the new milestone assumes the

G2 Venture Partners, the high-profile firm that spun out of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is raising a third fund with a target of $750 million, technewss has learned.  The raise, which was disclosed in a regulatory filing, is a bullish vote of confidence in climate and sustainabilit

SolarSquare has raised $40 million in a round led by Lightspeed in what is the largest venture round in India’s solar sector. The Mumbai-based startup was bootstrapped and profitably selling to corporate customers for five years before it switched to residential solar in 2021. Now it has sca

Green ammonia startup Amogy has raised $11.2 million of a targeted $90 million round, an SEC filing reveals. The new round's target is significantly smaller than its last round — a $139 million Series B-1 that was announced in March 2023 — highlighting the challenges that middle-stage clima

Getting rid of fossil fuels is relatively simple for some things. Housing? Replace furnaces with heat pumps. Cars and light trucks? Ditch internal combustion for batteries and electric motors. Yet for many industries like cement, steelmaking, and more, it's hard to replace the heating power of