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How many EVs catch fire? Where do they catch fire? And what causes EV batteries to catch fire? Our stats broken down into an easy overview.

The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want

Read in English ¿Has escuchado alguna vez a las personas decir: “Ellos tuvieron una mejora en el transporte público en su vecindario ¡Nosotros también merecemos tener una en el nuestro”? Sin embargo ¿...

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A company hoping to build a multi-billion-dollar wind-to-hydrogen project in western Newfoundland is eyeing other options as Canada's plans to supply Europe with green energy have not yet materialized...

Hydrogen hype is ramping up in Nova Scotia. EverWind Fuels CEO Trent Vichie recently told the Colchester Municipal Council that his company’s proposal to build massive new wind facilities in the provi...

Republicans removed funding for child cancer research from a new version of a bill to fund the government after Elon Musk torpedoed the previous deal.

Climate One is delighted to present the 2024 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication to political scientist Leah Stokes.

Solar accounted for 78% of all new electricity generation capacity from January through September 2024

Nearly all new cars now come with automatic emergency braking and other safety features. Researchers say these systems are saving lives, but there's still debate about how to make them better.

The bullshit just keeps on coming.

The bullshit just keeps on coming.

X owner Elon Musk appears to be spooked by the flow of users leaving the social media platform in favor of alternatives like BlueSky.

A new report highlights the outsize effect of falling lithium prices on used EVs and second-life batteries.

Recent reports say leading AI companies are experiencing diminishing returns.

A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled

New York University professor emeritus Gary Marcus discusses the consequences of artificial intelligence and OpenAI's valuation on 'The Claman Countdown.'

This week’s guest on Cleaning Up is Bent Flyvbjerg. Bent is Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford and is the most cited scholar in the world on the subject…