World:
¶ “Hurricane Erin’s Rapid Intensification And What It Means For Europe’s Weather” • Hurricane Erin, the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2025 season, grew from a Category 1 storm to Category 5 in just over 24 hours. It is not projected to make landfall on this side of the Atlantic. But weakened to storm status, it could cross the Atlantic and hit Ireland and the UK. [Euronews]|
Projected path of Erin (Please click on the image.)
¶ “Adaptation Efforts Like Early Warnings And Preparedness Have Cut Europe’s Flood Deaths And Losses” • Flooding deaths in Europe fell 52% since 1950, thanks to such solutions as early warning systems and emergency preparedness, a study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has found. This is despite an 8% increase in flooding. [Euronews]
¶ “Record UK Wildfires Have Burned an Area Twice the Size of Glasgow in 2025 ” • Wildfires have scorched more than 40,000 hectares of land so far this year across the UK, an area more than twice the size of the Scottish city of Glasgow. This is already a record amount of land burned in a single year, far exceeding the previous high, GWIS data shows. [CleanTechnica]
Forest fire (Pixabay, Pexels)
¶ “BYD Rises To #91 On Fortune Global 500 List” • BYD has been growing, growing, growing, and CleanTechnica has been keeping track. As a testament to its rise and its increasingly strong place in markets around the world, we got news that the Chinese EV company has risen up the Fortune Global 500 list and is now in the top 100. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Why the Recent Slowdown in Arctic Sea Ice Loss Is Only Temporary” • The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic has long been a prominent symbol of climate change. Yet, since the late 2000s, the pace of Arctic sea ice loss has slowed markedly. Climate model simulations suggest we should expect periods like this to occur relatively frequently. [CleanTechnica]
Mount Erebus, Australia (Josh Landis, US NSF, public domain)
¶ “CDWE Completes Hai Long Jacket Installation” • CDWE (CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering) has completed installation of all 73 jacket foundations at Northland Power’s 1-GW Hai Long offshore wind farm in the Taiwan Strait. The project is the largest CDWE has undertaken in both scale and technical complexity. It was completed early. [reNews]
¶ “RWE Powers Up 34-MW Wind Farm In Aldenhoven” • RWE has commissioned the 34-MW Aldenhoven wind farm in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The site, developed on recultivated land at the Inden opencast lignite mine, features six 5.7-MW turbines, which are capable of powering 24,000 households with clean electricity. [reNews]
Wind farm (RWE image)
¶ “Eskom Pivots Towards Renewable Energy With New Solar Power Procurement Initiative” • Eskom announced the launch of its first Renewable Energy Offtake Programme. Now Eskom has shifted its focus from merely addressing the crippling issue of loadshedding to making itself a sustainable and competitive player in the energy market. [MSN]
US:
¶ “FDA Warns Public Not To Eat Possibly Radioactive Shrimp Sold At Walmart” • US Customs and Border Protection alerted the FDA that possible radioactive Cesium-137 was detected in shipping containers at four US ports, the FDA said. No shrimp in the US food supply were found to be radioactive. The source of Cs-137 in the shrimp is not known. [ABC News]
Dinner with shrimp (Pirata Studio Film, Unsplash)
¶ “Ford Is Doing What Has To Be Done: Leading On EVs And Innovating Are Imperative” • Ford says it is investing billions of dollars into advanced manufacturing, EV batteries, and a whole new vehicle platform in Kentucky and Michigan. It is all about creating affordable, competitive EVs. It makes one think, what else could we expect from Ford? [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Washington Blocks Funding For Solar On Farmland” • US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced that the US DA will no longer fund solar panels on productive farmland or allow equipment made by foreign adversaries to be used in USDA-backed projects. She said that subsidised solar projects displace farmland. [reNews]
Brooke Rollins, at center (USDA image)
¶ “New Nissan LEAF Adds Range And Features, For Under $30,000” • The Nissan LEAF is a classic among EVs. But it’s not done and collecting dust in history books. Nissan is launching the 3rd-generation LEAF, and it just keeps getting better. The starting MSRP of the 2026 Nissan LEAF is $29,990, the lowest of any EV in the US. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “US Extends 50% Tariff To Wind Turbines” • The Department of Commerce added 407 product categories to Section 232 steel and aluminium tariffs, which carry a 50% duty rate. The scope now covers wind turbines and components, along with other equipment such as mobile cranes, bulldozers, compressors, pumps, and railcars. [reNews]
Attaching a blade (Enercon image)
¶ “Coal Power Plant Demolished For Nuclear Fusion Prototype” • We have seen such things as solar arrays on former landfills. Now comes another reversal of technologies. This one is about getting rid of a coal power plant for a cleaner source of electricity. Chris Mowry, CEO at Type One Energy, answered some questions about the project. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Nuclear Waste Could Provide Fuel For Fusion Energy, Says Los Alamos Physicist” • Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have unveiled simulations showing how radioactive nuclear waste could be repurposed to generate tritium, the rare hydrogen isotope that fuels nuclear fusion. Tritium is rare and expensive. [NucNet]
Have a comfortably constructive day.
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