Technology

"The plan to bring back the woolly mammoth — or at least a version of it — is ambitious but raises hairy questions".

"EPA’s internal watchdog is warning the agency is at risk of cyberattacks because of lax controls for its data."

"The natural gas industry lost its initial bid to strip key climate-friendly measures out of national homebuilding guidelines, HuffPost has learned. The rules in the model building code will require new homes to come equipped with the circuitry to hook up induction stoves and electric car chargers, and will be used as a benchmark in almost every state."

"There will soon be a new eye in the sky that’s designed to detect emissions of methane, an invisible yet potent gas that is dangerously heating the world."

"A proposal to expand research on solar geoengineering was withdrawn from consideration at the United Nations Environment Assembly on Thursday after nations failed to reach agreement over how to approach the knotty issue of reflecting sunlight away from the Earth."

"The US government has suspended its effort to survey cryptocurrency mining operations over their ballooning energy use following a lawsuit from an industry that has been accused by environmental groups of fueling the climate crisis."

"Proponents of the de-extinction movement press on with little research and lots of fanfare"

"While sales of both heat pumps and gas furnaces were down in 2023, heat pumps are proving more popular than ever."