A new Stanford Universityinitiative aims to overcome barriers to large-scale deployment of tech that can pull planet-warming gases from the atmosphere.
Driving the news: The Doerr School of Sustainability will on Thursday announce greenhouse gas removal as the first focus of a new "flagship destinations" program on the environment.
A growing water-food deficit powered by climate change is ramping up conflict in densely populated Central American cities prone to violence, according to new research.
Why it matters: It's no secret that water scarcity fuels domestic, social and political instability. The role of drought in agricultural production and food security, and how that correlates with conflict, is less understood.
The Biden administration's effort to spur domestic battery manufacturing is running into a problem: Some criticalraw materials are only found abroad, and China controls much of the supply.
Why it matters: The provenance of raw materials used in electric vehicle (EV) production — including lithium, nickel, cobalt and graphite — is about to have a huge impact on tax credits designed to put such cars within reach of average Americans.
More than 2,000 residents of an Indiana town are under an evacuation order after a large industrial fire broke out at a materials storage facility on Tuesday.
U.S. officials released a set of proposals Tuesday for distributing cuts from the Colorado River — including one that would break from precedent by evenly assigning reductions among lower basin states, forcing users in California to shoulder more of the load.
Driving the news: The proposals would amend 2007 guidelines that govern cuts in the event of a shortage as climate change and other factors threaten the river that provides drinking water to 40 million people in seven states and 30 tribal nations.
