The Planet (on, and off)

Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers. They’ve all become targets in wartime, and around the world now arguments “are already brewing between companies and governments over new regulations and potential costs.” In Germany, powerful associations representing private companies and municipal Read more…

A new state law limits Florida communities’ aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes. Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and counties have implemented such policies, including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Read more…

Donald Trump shuttered the web site Climate.gov in 2025, cutting off public access to climate information from America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But former members of the site’s team have brought much of it back at a new domain. “Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change,” Read more…

America generated 10.06% more energy with renewables in the first four months of 2026 than it did in the same period the year before. That’s according to new figures from America’s Energy Information Administration. The growth was led by utility-scale solar (+21.3%), hydropower (+15.7%), small-scale solar In April alone, wind Read more…

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security denied Polestar an authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. Polestar will continue to sell its existing inventory of Polestar 3 and 4 crossovers in the United States and will continue to offer support to customers and access to its service Read more…

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected complex organic carbon in ancient Martian mudstones. The measurements were taken by the rover’s Sherloc instrument and the organic carbon that was identified was from the Bright Angel outcrop, “a dried-up river that carried water into the planet’s Jezero crater billions of years ago,” notes Read more…