There are now 800 carbon removal startups. How many is too many?
Tackling climate change now requires not just reducing planet-warming emissions to zero, but also finding a way to draw down existing carbon dioxide from the air. Over the past few years, tech compani...
2 Juli 202431min
Why Bill Gates is investing big in nuclear power
Earlier this month, tech billionaire Bill Gates broke ground on a new nuclear plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming– a historic coal town. Gates tells Zero why he hopes the plant, which uses sodium for cooling, ...
25 Juni 202425min
Making sense of “compound” climate impacts in a time of global weirding
We are living through the hottest year on record. That’s not news, but growing climate impacts make bigger and bigger news. At 1.3C of warming beyond pre-industrial levels, people are reckoning with a...
20 Juni 202420min
The 21st century will be shaped by fire
The 2016 fire that encircled the oil-producing town of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, forced more than 80,000 people to evacuate and left billions of dollars in damage in its wake. It was a disaste...
13 Juni 202430min
Big Take Asia: Will the world's biggest nuclear power plant get a restart?
All of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors were shut down after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. As the country's energy needs soar, debate is heating up over whether to bring the world’s largest nuclear plan...
10 Juni 202416min
Is Tesla on the road to irrelevance?
Over the past 18 months, Tesla has missed its sales goals, seen its share price fall and waded through a series of dramatic decisions from Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who cut car prices, fired ...
6 Juni 202427min
Searching for climate solutions amid the AI hype
Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to save the world or end it. The technology’s capacity for data-crunching and problem-saving can help predict weather events, making it easier to optimize ...
30 Maj 202430min
Microsoft wanted to be carbon negative. Then it went big on AI
Microsoft’s recent push to capitalize on artificial intelligence has made it the world’s most valuable company. But according to new figures, that ambition is coming at the expense of its climate goa...
23 Maj 202423min
