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What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

More EVs reaching the end of their life means more batteries to recycle. But waste management companies have yet to catch up to the new reality.

Heat waves are simultaneously hitting Europe, North America, and Asia, driven in part by the hot waters in the tropical Pacific—and climate change.

Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.

Startup Zanskar has created one of the most productive geothermal wells in the US at a power plant that had been in decline for years.

Extreme fire conditions on the ground have created unprecedented conditions in the atmosphere.

Climate change is upping the odds of major wildfires, creating a need for new tools to combat them.

Overview mise is one of the cleanest ways to make a repository's tool environment explicit. It can tell contributors, CI, and agents which runtime versions and command environment a project expects. That matters. But a resolved environment is not the same thing as accepted repository execution. mise helps answer: Which tools and versions should this repo use? Ota answers a different question: Is the selected repo path ready, safe, canonical, and verified? Those two layers work well together because they solve different parts of the same operational problem. For modern repositories, especially ones touched by AI agents, that distinction matters. The failure is not always "wrong Node version" or "missing Python". Many repo failures happen after the right tools are already present. The repo still needs to declare setup, task truth, readiness, verification, agent safety, runtime mode, and proof boundaries. That is Ota's layer. What mise Is Good At mise is good at environment and tool resolution. It gives a repo a compact way to declare things like: which Node version should be used which Python, Go, Ruby, or other tools matter which tool versions should be installed or activated which command environment should be entered which repo-owned task aliases should exist That is valuable for contributors and agents because it reduces host guesswork. Without a tool manager, a new contributor may have the wrong runtime, a stale global binary, or an old package manager sitting on PATH . With mise , the repo can make more of that explicit. That is a strong foundation. Where Environment Resolution Stops The problem starts when teams treat environment resolution as repository acceptance. They are not the same thing. The right tools can be installed and the repo can still be ambiguous about: which setup path is canonical whether dependencies have been hydrated whether services are required whether test , check , ci , or verify is the accepted lane whether local and CI execution agree

More electric vehicles are becoming capable of providing backup power at a time when the US is increasingly in need of more electrons.

Scientists identified the first known cancer transmissible among freshwater fish in a lake that spans the US and Canada.

This climate phenomenon could cause a massive global temperature spike and cause economic losses of $10 trillion by 2032.

The EPA has proposed a rule change that would let states decide how much input the public has on air pollution permits. It would be a huge boon for data centers increasingly reliant on fossil fuels.

Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co.

Michigan has been at the epicenter of the wildfire smoke and explosive diarrhea outbreaks. The progressive Democrat talks to WIRED about how he would tackle the forces behind them if he’s elected.

How does AI make you feel? Are you excited to “vibe-code” your smart home? Or anxious about all the added pollution and billions of gallons of water used by data centers? Dig a little deeper and you’ll start to question the actual value of the GPUs that underpin all the leaps and promises of generative […]

The latest estimates reveal that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale events such as the FIFA World Cup stem from spectators traveling to host cities.

On July 19th, dozens of teams of high school students will begin a five-day, 630-mile road race from Fort Worth to Fort Stockton in Texas. But this is not your typical contest. The students design and build the cars themselves, using off-the-shelf parts and 3D printed materials. The winner is the team that accumulates the […]

This year’s World Cup has faced sweltering heat and humidity. Now it may need to deal with wildfire smoke.

The US is home to some of the most polluted air on the planet as smoke from 120 out-of-control Canadian wildfires drifts across the border.

We consulted preparedness experts and WIRED’s team of testers for the essential gear to keep on hand in case of wildfires, earthquakes, and lord knows what else.