Dandelion Energy today announced the closure of a $70 million B1 funding round to scale geothermal in the US, but it quietly left Vermont in the fall. The B1 funding round was co-led by LENX, the corporate venture arm of homebuilding company Lennar, and NGP ETP, the energy transition investing platform of NGP. Bill Gates’…

Greta Thunberg and 20 other young activists are calling on world leaders to abandon fossil fuels. London has installed three awesome “City Trees,” which are moss towers that eat pollution. This tiny house is not only seriously cute, it’s also eco-friendly and resistant to natural disasters. And more… Climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg and 20…

Two islands in an Indonesian Unesco world biosphere reserve have disappeared due to rising seas. Microsoft announces it will be carbon negative by 2030. Australian firefighters saved the world’s last remaining “dinosaur trees” from the bushfires. And more… On Wednesday, Indonesia’s Jakarta Post reported that two small islands in South Sumatra have become submerged by rising…

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s more worried about Iran than climate change. Why Bernie Sanders’ expensive, radical plan to tackle the climate crisis just might work. Not everyone at Davos is “elite”: Meet the youth climate activists who slept in tents in the snow. And more… US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was interviewed…

Joe Biden said that “there’s not a single solitary scientist that thinks” the Green New Deal can work. 57 scientists responded that he’s wrong. An endurance swimmer swam beneath the Antarctic ice sheet to highlight climate-change effects. Wildlife experts in Australia work to rescue animals after the bushfire crisis. And more… In New Hampshire last…

What Donald Trump said (and didn’t) say about climate change, energy, and EVs in his State of the Union speech. Nine leading environmental organizations released a statement about Trump’s environmental track record (spoiler: they’re not impressed). The bumblebee population is in decline across North America and Europe due to rising temperatures. And more… On Tuesday,…

Scientists on an Antarctic expedition found that chinstrap penguin populations have plummeted. Half of US pollution deaths occur in states where the pollution didn’t start, according to a new study. Globally, air pollution from fossil fuels costs $8 billion per day. And more… Antarctica’s chinstrap penguins (pictured above) are suffering at the hand of climate…

The Lancet and the Union of Concerned Scientists flag up how climate change is hurting children. This search engine is not only secure, it also supports ocean cleanup and emissions reduction. Why all media outlets need to follow the Guardian‘s lead and drop fossil-fuel advertising. And more… The prestigious medical journal the Lancet has launched a…

The EPA rolls back yet another climate-protecting rule — this time it’s deregulating HFCs. Here’s why every Uber/Lyft trip should be electric and pooled asap. Paris Agreement architect Christiana Figueres explains why there’s hope — and why protest is vital. And more… On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule that eliminates leak…

How a couple created a tiger reserve in India by buying land and letting forest grow back. Hey, New Yorkers: ’80s rocker Billy Idol wants you to stop “idling” your fossil-fuel cars. American station in Antarctica records the warmest February in 53 years. And more… Aditya and Poonam Singh love nature and wildlife. In 1998,…