Dan Drollette

Jul 11, 2024 | thebulletin.org | Oliver Milman |Dan Drollette

Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas, July 8, 2024. Image courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hurricane Beryl, which slammed into Texas on Monday after wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, was supercharged by “absolutely crazy” ocean temperatures that are likely to fuel further violent storms in the coming months, scientists have warned.

May 30, 2024 | thebulletin.org | Erin Rode |Dan Drollette

By some criteria, 1290 Embarcadero in Morro Bay, Calif. seems like a prime site for a facility to store renewable energy. This swath of coastal land houses a power plant that was shuttered a decade ago and its still standing smokestacks. Vistra Corp.’s proposal for a 600-megawatt battery storage project on a portion of the site includes remediating the entire area and removing the plant and stacks, readying the land for future development.

May 27, 2024 | thebulletin.org | Phil McKenna |Dan Drollette

Inside a cinder block office building perhaps best known for the Hindu temple and table tennis club next door, a startup company in Medford, Massachusetts, is testing what may be one of the hottest new developments in clean energy technology. At the back of a small warehouse laboratory buzzing with fans and motors, an MIT spinoff company called Electrified Thermal Solutions is operating something its founders call the Joule Hive, a thermal battery the size of an elevator.

May 24, 2024 | thebulletin.org | Matt Simon |Dan Drollette

Image courtesy of Chil Vera/Pixabay Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Once again, vast expanses of Canadian wilderness are on fire, threatening towns and forcing thousands to flee. It appears to be a breakout of “zombie fires”: wildfires from last year that never actually went out completely but carried on smoldering underground, reigniting ground vegetation again this year.

May 20, 2024 | thebulletin.org | Oliver Milman |Dan Drollette

Smoke from wildfires in Quebec, Canada, shrouds Grand Central Station in New York City on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transit Authority under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0) Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.