Boeing will purchase up to 100,000 metric tons of carbon removal from Charm Industrial, a startup transforming forest wastes into "bio-oil" stored permanently underground.
Why it matters: It's Charm's first aviation deal amid growing emissions from flight — and an aerospace industry seeking climate solutions that can eventually reach a large scale.
Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah says politicians should be louder about their climate progress.
Why it matters: The Conservative Climate Caucus founder'scomments offer a contrast to criticism from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and world leaders as the U.N. summit unfolds in Belém, Brazil.
Fewer solar projects are being delayed now compared to this time last year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported this week.
Why it matters: Conventional wisdom pointing to politics, permitting and local battles suggests solar is facing increasing opposition, but short-term trends suggest that may be changing.
Global efforts to address climate change are — still — going far better today than they were a decade ago, even with recent politics pushing the problem to the back burner.
Why it matters: We humans usually operate on daily, monthly and yearly time frames. So it can be easy to miss the energy transition unfolding over decades and centuries.
The Northern Lights have been illuminating skies across the U.S. this week, and some lucky spectators may get another chance to see the aurora borealis into Thursday.
The big picture: Intense G4 geomagnetic conditions, the second-highest on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's five-step scale, produced magnetic conditions that were "eight times stronger than what's normal" on Tuesday night, NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center forecaster Shawn Dahl said in a video on X.
