World:
¶ “High Seas Hopes Meet Hard Realities With 2026 Set To Become A Pivotal Year For World’s Oceans” • Euronews looks ahead to 2026, from deep-sea mining to EU marine policy. While 2025 saw tidal shifts in ocean governance, 2026 is the moment of reckoning, when promises to protect the most distant stretches of sea become reality. [Euronews]
The sea (Joydeep Sensarma, Unsplash)
¶ “Amid Massive Sewer Upgrade, Fishermen And Ecologists Hope For Revival Of London’s Thames River” • The River Thames winds 215 miles through England. For centuries, the river has been called “monster soup” and the “dirty old river.” A project beneath London will soon improve it. It is the £4.5 billion (about $6 billion) Tideway Tunnel. [ABC News]
¶ “Cypriot Fishermen Battle Invasive Lionfish And Turn Them Into A Tavern Delicacy” • Lionfish threaten native fish stocks, wreaking havoc on the livelihoods of fishermen in Cyprus. With warmer seas resulting from climate change, they could swarm the entire Mediterranean by the century’s end. They can be eaten, but there are other invasive fish. [ABC News]
Lionfish (Wai Siew, Unsplash)
¶ “EV Sales Are Booming In Bolivia As A New President Scraps The Fuel Subsidy” • Bolivia is ending fuel subsidies. It is not alone among South American countries doing that, as Ecuador did so with gasoline in 2024 and Venezuela has limited subsidies. Now Bolivia is quietly building a massive EV revolution as sales of traditional cars collapse. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Volkswagen Renaissance Begins In China” • Volkswagen has introduced the ID. Unyx 08 in China. It bears very little physical resemblance to any other battery electric car from Volkswagen. The car is maximized to appeal to Chinese customers, but the ID. Unyx 08 could offer a glimpse of where the company’s design language is headed in the future. [CleanTechnica]
Volkswagen ID. Unyx 08 (Volkswagen China image)
¶ “Egypt Inaugurates Djibouti’s Largest Solar Power Plant” • Egypt’s Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development and Minister of Industry and Transport, Kamel el-Wazir, inaugurated a solar power plant in the village of Omar Kaji in the Arta region of Djibouti. It is the largest solar power plant completed in Djibouti’s rural areas. [Egypt Independent]
¶ “Repairs Start Near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Plant After IAEA-Brokered Local Ceasefire” • Power line repairs have begun near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after another local ceasefire brokered by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the agency said, citing its Director General Rafael Grossi. The repairs may last several days. [Al Arabiya English]
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant (Ralf1969, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped)
US:
¶ “Gas Leak Outside Los Angeles Shuts Down Major Highway, Nearby Residents Told To Shelter-In-Place” • A reported leak from a rupture in a 34-inch gas line in northern Los Angeles County led authorities to urge nearby residents to stay inside and shut down a major Southern California highway for several hours, snarling traffic for miles. [ABC News]
¶ “A 15-Ton Rooftop Heat Pump Is Coming For Your Fossil Fuels” • Heat pumps are scaling up to tackle the tougher job of decarbonizing commercial buildings, with the Florida-based firm Carrier Global Corporation among the industry leaders demonstrating that US innovators can still move the needle on climate action. [CleanTechnica]
Buildings will get big heat pumps (Carrier image)
¶ “Four States Fight To Restore Offshore Wind Projects … Wait, Where Is Virginia?” • Last week Interior Secretary Doug Burgum cited new, classified information from the Defense Department when he abruptly halted work on five offshore wind farms. Now the governors of the affected states want to be let in on the secret. Well, almost all of them. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Massive Solar Plus Storage Facility To Replace Both Coal And Natural Gas” • After this year’s sharp U-turn in federal energy policy , the age of cleaner, more affordable 21st century energy solutions is still in full force in many places, as illustrated by the planned expansion of the Sherco Energy Hub in Minnesota, with 910 MW of solar plus storage. [CleanTechnica]
Have a plainly resplendent day.
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