The Unstoppable Rise of the Heat Pump: Why the US Market Survived the Death of Federal Tax Credits
Executive Overview Amidst the scorching heat waves that routinely punish urban centers like New York…
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Powering the Metropolis: Inside North America’s Longest Underground Transmission Line and Its Rocky Road to Grid Integration
Executive Overview An underground power line may not sound like the stuff of technological revolution,…
Laser-Driven Renaissance: How Advanced Optics Are Reshaping the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Executive Overview Outside the small, historic town of Paducah, Kentucky, millions of pounds of radioactive…
Breathing New Life Into Deep Earth Energy: How a Tech-Driven Startup Revived a Failing Geothermal Plant
Executive Overview As the global energy transition accelerates, the search for reliable, round-the-clock, emissions-free electricity…
Scorched Earth: How Climate Change and a Rapidly Developing El Niño Are Pushing Global Temperatures to the Brink
By Global Climate Investigations Desk Published in partnership with The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly…
Navigating the Polycrisis: How Gen Z Is Confronting Eco-Anxiety and Finding Collective Resilience
Executive Overview Sometime in the late 2000s, a six-year-old Pim Sullivan-Tailyour sat in the back…
The 21st-Century Underground Gold Rush: How Geologic Hydrogen Could Rewrite the Global Clean Energy Playbook
Executive Overview The quest for clean energy has driven humanity down many technological avenues over…
The Climate Squeeze: Why Europe’s Historic Heat Waves Pose an Existential Threat to the Modern Power Grid
Executive Overview As summer temperatures breach historic thresholds across the Northern Hemisphere, the devastating impacts…
Cracking the Code on California’s Carbon Market: Why the State’s Lucrative Dairy Digester Program May Be Locking In Millennia of Warming
Executive Overview California has long postured itself as the vanguard of global climate policy—a legislative…
Worms, Waste, and Warming: Inside California’s High-Stakes Battle Over Dairy Manure
Executive Overview In the agricultural heartland of California’s Central Valley, beneath the baking sun of…
