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3 takeaways about climate tech right now

On Monday, we published our 2025 edition of Climate Tech Companies to Watch. This marks the third time we’ve put the list together, and it’s become one of my favorite projects to work on every year.  In the journalism world, it’s easy to get caught up in the latest news, whether it’s a fundraising r...

‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say

Calls for reform to allow people across the Pacific threatened by climate crisis to more easily migrate, particularly to New Zealand

Tour operator Intrepid drops carbon offsets and emissions targets

Firm will instead invest A$2m a year in ‘climate impact fund’ supporting renewables and switching to EVs

Trio wins chemistry Nobel Prize for metal organic framework

The work that won Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry could help tackle challenges such as climate change and lack of fresh water.

Natural disasters are a rising burden for the National Guard

New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission.

The Download: introducing the 10 climate tech companies to watch for 2025

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: 10 climate tech companies to watch Every year, the MIT Technology Review newsroom produces a list of some of the most promising climate tech firms on...

How we picked promising climate tech companies in an especially unsettling year

MIT Technology Review’s reporters and editors faced a dilemma as we began to mull nominees for this year’s list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch. How do you pick companies poised to succeed in a moment of such deep uncertainty, at a time when the new Trump administration is downplaying the dangers...

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pairwise and its climate-adapted crops

Climate change will make it increasingly difficult to grow crops across many parts of the world. Pairwise is leveraging CRISPR gene editing to develop plants that can better withstand adverse conditions. Pairwise uses cutting-edge gene editing to produce crops that can withstand increasingly harsh c...

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Traton and its electric trucks

As Europe gradually phases out heavy-duty diesel trucks, Traton is gearing up production of its electric models. The company is also helping to install hundreds of public chargers to aid the growth of electric freight transport across Europe.  Every day, trucks carry many millions of tons of cargo d...

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Cemvision and its low-emissions cement

Cement is one of the most used materials on the planet, and the industry emits billions of tons of greenhouse gasses annually. Cemvision wants to use waste materials and alternative fuels to help reduce climate pollution from cement production. Today, making cement requires crushing limestone and he...

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Cyclic Materials and its rare earth recycling tech

Rare earth magnets are essential for clean energy, but only a tiny fraction of the metals inside them are ever recycled. Cyclic Materials aims to change that by opening one of the largest rare earth magnet recycling operations outside of China next year. By collecting a wide range of devices and rec...

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Ather Energy and its premium e-scooters

More than 70% of the 200 million registered vehicles in India are two-wheelers. Ather Energy builds e-scooters for the rising middle class that could help commuters ditch highly-polluting, gas-guzzling models. While sales of Tesla or BYD cars drove electric vehicle adoption elsewhere in the world, t...

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Kairos Power and its next-generation nuclear reactors

Like many new nuclear startups, Kairos promises a path to reliable, 24/7 decarbonized power. Unlike most, it already has prototypes under construction and permits for commercial reactors.  Kairos made last year’s list because of a safer design for small modular reactors that produce power from nucle...

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch

Bill Gates: Our best weapon against climate change is ingenuity

It’s a foregone conclusion that the world will not meet the goals for limiting emissions and global warming laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Many people want to blame politicians and corporations for this failure, but there’s an even more fundamental reason: We don’t have all the technological...

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: HiNa Battery Technology and its effort to commercialize salt cells

HiNa Battery Technology is a trailblazer in developing and mass-producing batteries using sodium, a widely available element that can be extracted from sea salt. The startup’s products—already powering small vehicles and energy storage plants in China—provide a valuable alternative to lithium-based...

Banking industry’s net zero alliance shuts down amid faltering climate commitments

NZBA had nearly 150 members but banks began leaving when Trump was re-elected on promise to ‘drill, baby, drill’

Online attacks threaten major climate-friendly diet report

A major scientific update to one of the most influential food and planetary health reports of the past decade is in the crosshairs of a pro-meat misinformation campaign.

There Is No Green Transition Without Consequences

A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis.

The EPA Is Ending Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?

With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function.

'Alternative Nobel Prize' goes to Pacific climate activists

A student group that took the issue of climate justice to the world's top court has received a prestigious award for its work. Activists from Myanmar, Sudan and Taiwan were also honored with the Right Livelihood prize.

Right Livelihood prize goes to Pacific climate activists

A student group that took the issue of climate justice to the world's top court has received a prestigious award for its work. Activists from Myanmar, Sudan and Taiwan were also honored with the Right Livelihood prize.

Toyota adds another $1.5B to its bet on startups at every stage

Toyota made two announcements that reflect the automaker's growing interest in startups working on mobility, climate, AI, sustainability, and industrial automation.

Gli Usa dell’era Maga negano il climate change, ma ora un rapporto sfida il conformismo istituzionale

Nonostante gli Stati Uniti siano trionfalmente entrati nell’era MAGA, negazionista climatica per missione divina come direbbe il grande John Belushi, la National Academy of Sciences sfida il conformismo istituzionale, pubblicando un rapporto poco confortante*. Lo sguardo è rivolto agli Stati Uniti,...

Powering HPC with next-generation CPUs

For all the excitement around GPUs—the workhorses of today’s AI revolution—the central processing unit (CPU) remains the backbone of high-performance computing (HPC). CPUs still handle 80% to 90% of HPC workloads globally, powering everything from climate modeling to semiconductor design. Far from b...

Trump’s Energy Department forbids staff from saying ‘climate change’ or ‘green’

A Trump appointee emailed Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy employees last week with a long list of banned words.

Environmental damage threatens prosperity in Europe

Despite progress in climate change action, Europe's environment is being seriously degraded, according to a new report. Researchers say environmental damage threatens competitiveness and quality of life on the continent.

The Download: AI to detect child abuse images, and what to expect from our 2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. US investigators are using AI to detect child abuse images made by AI Generative AI has enabled the production of child sexual abuse images to skyrocket. Now the...

Coming soon: Our 2025 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch

The need to cut emissions and adapt to our warming world is growing more urgent. This year, we’ve seen temperatures reach record highs, as they have nearly every year for the last decade. Climate-fueled natural disasters are affecting communities around the world, costing billions of dollars.  That’...

The current war on science, and who’s behind it

A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.