Adele Peters

In a small village in Senegal, almost no one has electricity, but that’s about to change. Last year, a 40-foot-shipping container rolled into town, unfolded an array of solar panels on its roof, and crews began running wires to connect […]

Filling an empty gas tank in an SUV might take five or six minutes. A new electric SUV from China’s BYD can charge its battery in roughly the same amount of time, using one of the company’s new EV chargers.

At a remote elementary school in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, until recently, access to safe drinking water was a daily challenge. The school tried to use groundwater, but there wasn’t enough supply; the water was also contaminated with salt

A cute new electric hatchback from Volkswagen, out next year, will cost €25,000, or around $27,000. Another tiny VW model coming in 2027, with Rivian software inside, will start at only €20,000. But neither will be available in the U.S.

A typical RV has to plug in at a campground to run the power inside. But Airstream’s newest Basecamp 20Xe trailer is designed to power itself in remote locations: If you want to spend a week in the wilderness, you

If you’re feeling a little apprehensive about your next flight because of Trump administration policies, that’s not unreasonable—and not just because Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency fired hundreds of workers at the FAA, including some whose

Over the past month, as Elon Musk began to chaotically dismantle government agencies through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), federal workers started to mobilize to fight back. One step is happening today, February 19: In a national day

Last Monday, inspired by reading about a small protest of Elon Musk and DOGE that happened at a Tesla charging station in Maine, Joan Donovan decided to make a digital flyer inviting people to join her at a protest this

2024 was the hottest year on record, but it was also a turning point for climate tech. Climate change keeps getting harder to ignore. Phoenix lived through 113 consecutive days above 100 degrees last summer. A record number of fires

If you want to buy a sleek new heat pump or home battery before tax credits might disappear, here are some of the choices. A handful of purchasing decisions in your own life can make an outsized difference for the