The climate crisis demands action — and action is happening. This archive tracks real progress: policy wins, clean-energy milestones, community resilience, and scientific advances that show meaningful change is possible. Stories here come from every corner of the world.
Residents who live within city limits can request to have a public electric vehicle charging station installed in front of their home or residential property. Installations are expected to begin early next year.
They will then invest an estimated $3.8 billion by 2030 into a generation of renewables and storage, mostly wind and batteries, to ensure Western Australia has affordable and reliable power into the future.
Space solar power just cleared a milestone that researchers once thought was still years away. China’s test tower at Xidian University is the first facility anywhere to run the complete chain — concentrating sunlight, converting it to electricity, and beaming that power wirelessly to a ground receiver — all in one integrated system, completed roughly three years ahead of schedule. It’s a research milestone, not a power plant, but proving the full system works in one place gives scientists a permanent platform to push the technology forward.
These “CO2 batteries” can store renewable energy over long periods and release it quickly, at less than half the cost of big lithium batteries.
During future tests, developer IHI Corp is hoping to generate two megawatts, with the hopes of kicking off commercial operations in the 2030s, Bloomberg reports.
Finland’s parliament recently passed a new Climate Change Act which legally binds it to its commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2035 and negative emissions by 2040.
Indigenous and environmental groups led a campaign against drilling in the refuge, and 29 banks and 14 insurers now say they won’t fund drilling in the refuge.
The Tokyo Metropolitan University team’s new technology promises unprecedented performance and robustness in direct air capture systems.
Each Heimdal can pull 1,000 tons of carbon out of the ocean per year at just a fraction of the cost of air-capture methods.
New Zealand’s sweeping 15-year emissions plan shows what climate legislation can look like when it’s built to last — with near cross-party backing making it harder for future governments to unravel. Central to it is a “scrap and replace” program giving lower- and middle-income families real help trading older vehicles for electric or hybrid ones, tackling the equity problem that typically leaves cleaner cars out of reach. Greener buses, trams, and cycling infrastructure round out the approach, recognizing that fewer car trips matter as much as cleaner ones. It’s a model other countries will be watching closely.
