Water tender crews monitor a backfire during the Mosquito fire in Foresthill, an unincorporated area of Placer County, California on September 13, 2022. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images As a massive wildfire chewed through tens of thousands of acres in California over the past week, smoke and ash billowed into nearby towns including
PARIS — PLD Space, a Spanish company developing a small launch vehicle, says it is ready to proceed with the launch of a suborbital technology demonstrator after completing a static-fire test. The company conducted a 122-second test of its Miura 1 rocket Sept. 15 at a company facility in Teruel, Spain. That firing, called the
Contrails are created as jet engines burn fuel, and might have a greater effect on climate warming than does carbon dioxide.Credit: Richard Newstead/Getty Aviation is a big polluter. Globally, the industry generates roughly one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year — comparable to that produced by Japan, the world’s third-largest economy. Although many governments
Perseverance used its robotic arm to collect rock cores from an outcrop called Skinner Ridge, which is part of an ancient river delta on Mars.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Since July, NASA’s Perseverance rover has drilled and collected four slim cores of sedimentary rock, formed in what was once a lake on Mars. They are the first of
In this picture, I’m measuring the spectrum and intensity of the light in a room where my company, Ekonoke, is growing hops hydroponically. At our facilities, near Madrid, we have three rooms equipped with sensors that control lighting, temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide levels and photosynthesis, among other factors. Once a week, I manually check the
The ITER fusion reactor is currently under construction in France.Credit: ITER Organization Pietro Barabaschi, an electrical engineer who has spent his entire career in fusion research, has been selected to lead ITER, the world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment. Barabaschi is currently acting director of Fusion for Energy, the organization responsible for Europe’s ITER contribution, and
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been shopping for bargains amid the industry’s recent carnage and said he still has cash to spend if opportunity knocks. It may seem strange. Other multibillion-dollar crypto giants spiraled into bankruptcy this year. FTX’s main competitor, Coinbase, has seen its shares plunge 70% and has laid off a fifth of
PARIS — Intuitive Machines, a company developing lunar landers and related capabilities for NASA and other customers, will go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), it announced Sept. 16. Houston-based Intuitive Machines said it will merge with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp., a SPAC trading on the Nasdaq exchange. The merged
Biotechnology company Huue (pronounced hue) is on a mission to mimic and replicate nature’s rainbow without the use of toxic chemicals. “We wanted a name that would allow us to redefine how we think about color while being very simple,” Huue CEO Michelle Zhu told GreenBiz. “We thought Huue would put us on the path
Monkeypox patients have higher infection rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) amid the current global monkeypox outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report means that HIV and STIs are highly prevalent for persons infected by the monkeypox virus called poxvirus, which belongs to the
Football is finally back. This year you can expect to see plenty of electric vehicles race across your screen during breaks. To promote its new EV lineup, GM is launching a new, in its own words, “aggressive and significant” ad campaign, which will air during NFL Sunday Night Football. According to a report from the
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks to attendees while they take part in the New York Democrats for Election Night Watch Party with Governor Kathy Hochul and Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado during New York primary election 2022 in New York, U.S., June 28, 2022. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters At a private dinner Wednesday at
WASHINGTON — The Space Systems Command, the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency have formed a new program office to coordinate disparate procurements of satellites to detect ballistic and hypersonic missiles. The Space Systems Command (SSC), the procurement arm of the U.S. Space Force, announced the realignment Sept. 15. The combined program office
A rare “dinosaur mummy” with a preserved hadrosaur fossil of the best quality ever found, according to paleontologists, has been found in Canada. A Hadrosaur in Dinosaur Provincial Park Researchers discovered the fossil of the hadrosaur in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta. The hadrosaur was a duck-billed, large-bodied, and herbivorous dinosaur. the group of researchers
Equally important as adopting renewables is ensuring the buildings they power are also sustainable. Electrek spoke with Breana Wheeler, US director of operations at BREEAM, the world’s first green building certification program, about what the ideal decarbonized building looks like and how US real estate investors should see climate change as an opportunity. Electrek: What
In this article SHEL-GB Wael Sawan will become Shell’s next chief executive on Jan. 1. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images Oil giant Shell on Thursday announced that CEO Ben van Beurden will step down at the end of the year after nearly a decade at the helm. Wael Sawan, currently Shell’s director of
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington on Oct. 17, 2019. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Facebook hasn’t been this cheap since the beginning of the pandemic. After plunging 14% for the week to close at $146.29, shares of Facebook parent Meta are at their lowest point since March
PARIS — Viasat took a step closer to buying London-based Inmarsat Sept. 16 after the British government ruled it poses no risk to the U.K.’s national security. The government found sufficient measures in place to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access, and to continue the provision of strategic capabilities to the U.K. following the merger.
This week’s run time is 40:05. IN REVIEW (5:30) FEATURES A legacy of green building innovation (21:25) Meet Kath Williams, an early leader at the U.S. Green Building Council and World Building Council, and a pioneer in the field of sustainable design and construction. She’s the latest in our series of interviews with the 2022
The Block Island Wind Farm, photographed in 2016, is located in waters off the east coast of the United States. DON EMMERT | AFP | Getty Images The White House said Thursday it was targeting 15 gigawatts of floating offshore wind capacity by the year 2035, as it looks to compete with Europe and Asia
In this article UBER TWTR Uber said it is “currently responding to a cybersecurity incident” after reports that a hacker compromised its systems. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Uber on Thursday said it is investigating a cybersecurity incident following reports that the ride-hailing company had been hacked. “We are currently
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