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‘Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,’ by Avi Loeb (2021)In 2017, a telescope in Hawaii noticed a strange object careering through the solar system. Was it just a weirdly behaving comet? Loeb, a prominent…

So-called green bonds have become more popular in recent years, and this fast-growing segment of the $128.3 trillion global bond market could grow even more.When an issuer sells a green bond, they're making a nonbinding commitment to…

A traveler leaves a test center at Heathrow Airport in London on January 17, 2021.Hollie Adams | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLONDON - UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Friday the 'green list' of countries UK residents…

Atop a long-dormant volcano in northern Nevada, workers are preparing to start blasting and digging out a giant pit that will serve as the first new large-scale lithium mine in the United States in more than a decade — a new domestic supply…

Two South Korean electric vehicle battery manufacturers who are building plants in the US announced on Sunday that they had reached a $ 1.8 billion deal in a trade secret dispute that threatened domestic battery supplies and thus the Biden…

Wind power has more than tripled in the past decade and now generates nearly 8 percent of the country's electricity. Solar energy, which generated less than 1 percent of the country's electricity in 2010, now generates about 2 percent and…

The world's lithium is mined either in Australia or in salt marshes in the Andean regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. Large amounts of groundwater are used to pump out the brine to suck up the water available to indigenous farmers and…

The device is in a converted shipping container.RICE, Energy Security Research Institute, Swansea UniversityA subsidiary of the multinational building materials company HeidelbergCement is working with researchers from Swansea University to…

From geopolitical tensions to the coronavirus pandemic to trade disputes, modern life can often feel confusing, unsafe, and disjointed.One area where there seems to be a new sense of oneness is the environment. Just last week, US President…

Tali Aiona | EyeEm | Getty ImagesThe Danish energy company Orsted is advancing plans to develop a demonstration project using offshore wind energy to produce "green" hydrogen. In an announcement on Wednesday, the company said it had made…