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From a wet winter in the Southwest to fewer Atlantic hurricanes, this is what to expect as a potential super El Niño takes shape.

Alt Carbon said the agreement followed more than a year of scientific review and due diligence, with Microsoft requiring additional verification and data-sharing measures.

SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy.

It’s a tale of two nuclear industries. In China, large reactors are coming together at a stunning pace. The country has nearly doubled its nuclear fleet since 2016, reaching nearly 60 gigawatts of total power capacity. The new facilities are nearly all gigawatt-scale pressurized-water reactors. Meanwhile, the US has built just two reactors in that…

In 2018, after nearly two decades working in Big Pharma, chemist Tim Cernak was ready to put his skills to a new use. For Merck, he’d developed precision therapies for cancer, HIV, and diabetes that could target disease while minimizing harm to healthy cells. But as a lifelong nature lover, he was increasingly concerned about…

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.

Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees C.

Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts worth by 2030.

GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.

Machine learning has its limits—how is it being used?

Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Don't wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at San Francisco's Moscone West.

GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned. This building is key to making that happen.

The actual eco-friendliness of ecotourism varies considerably. One research station in the Peruvian Amazon is out to prove it can bring visitors to the area without disrupting the environment.

Hotels and other service providers pitch themselves as eco-friendly when they’re not. Here’s how to call their bluff.

Meta may have found one way to slash its massive data center bill: tents.

Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.

Would you take a payment to ramp down your electricity use? Would it change anything if you were doing so to help power a local data center? Google just signed a new deal to help pay for a virtual power plant (VPP) in the largest power grid in the US. The agreement is with Voltus,…

Fusion startup Xcimer fired up the world's largest privately owned laser.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research won't be losing its supercomputer.