One of the most pressing climate issues we are facing is the vast amounts of energy used by data centers. This new technology claims to have a solution.

In 2023 a British tech company, SatVu built a satellite, called Hotsat-1, that measures heat radiating off buildings to determine whether they are energy efficient. We wrote about that in 06.23, and now we're revisiting it. CLIMATE NEWS MEDIA 53.006.1 This piece is part of our Throwback Series, where we revisit early CNM articles and rebuild them with new reporting, new context, and a clearer understanding of the climate story. Hotsat-1 was la

A Note The very first version of this article — written sometime in the early days of CNM — vanished into the digital void. A broken link, a corrupted draft, a CMS glitch… who knows. All that remains is the memory that it existed. So here it is again, rebuilt from scratch. A second chance for a story that deserves one. When talking about the future of clean energy, we picture solar farms, wind turbines, and battery packs the size of shipping containers. Almost nobody pictur

Recently I wrote an article about the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on climate change. I mentioned at the end of that article that AI might also be a valuable asset in combating the climate crisis. If you haven't read my original article, I recommend you do so before reading the rest of this one. You can find that article HERE Now, here is a shot list of 3 ways that AI can help and will help climate change: Mapping AI can help map out areas, and is being used

AI is everywhere, in the news, on your computer and smartphone, it seems as though we can’t escape it. AI can be a useful tool that can do many things to help us in our day-to-day lives and has the potential to help us solve big scale problems too. However, AI is also having a devastating impact on the environment. Generative AI chatbots are asked to process hundreds of millions of queries each day. This takes a lot of energy. In fact, it takes 5 times as much energy for AI t

In a year, a large tree can take around 40 kilograms of CO₂ out of the air. Now scientists at UC Berkely have made a carbon-capturing powder that can achieve the same feat. With half a pound of this fluffy yellow powder, the researchers say that they can capture the same 40 kilos. This powder, called COF-999, has been designed to trap greenhouse gas particles, and then release them in a safer place, for example injecting the carbon into the ground, something already done at c

This month I’ve been reading about how innovative satellite technologies are being used as important tools for scientists leaders in monitoring and addressing climate change. Recently, the British technology company, SatVu, built a satellite that can measure the heat radiating off buildings and determine whether or not they are energy efficient. This incredible satellite is named Hotsat-1 and was launched with a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in

There has been a lot of climate news in the past two months. In early April an important new report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that we are not doing enough to curb global warming to only 1.5 degrees Celsius, the goal set in the Paris Agreement in 2015. The report which was written by hundreds of leading scientists says that despite some efforts to curb emissions, greenhouse gas emissions did, in fact, increase globally from 2010 to 2019 and c

In February, the Colorado Legislature agreed to move forward with a study to determine whether biochar could effectively help to cap orphaned oil and gas wells. There are estimated to be over three million abandoned oil wells nationwide, many of which leak climate warming gasses into the atmosphere. The gasses can also have negative effects on the health of people and animals living near the wells.  Biochar is made through a process called pyrolysis in which wood and other or