The Naylors’ four-bedroom home in Milton Keynes acts like a mini-power station after retrofitting solar panels, a battery and a heat pump.
Solutions
The “plug and play” simplicity that creates balcony solar’s appeal might not yet work safely with most household electrical systems, experts and utilities say.
Senior public servant says bureaucrats will speak up about misinformation that risks policy progress.
The world’s largest producer of oat milk, Oatly, is pushing its customers and their governments to act on climate change, in a new milk carton campaign that's taking off in Europe and is expected in the United States within the next few months.
Ethiopia is trying to restore its native forests through one of the world's most ambitious and well-funded tree-planting campaigns, but experts question whether the trees will survive.
Frozen food worldwide is still kept at −18°C (0°F). Raising that by just three degrees could avoid 17 million tons of emissions a year, and an 18-month study found most foods stay safe and tasty.
Winds are stronger at higher altitudes, allowing for twice as much energy to be produced.

Britain won’t dim sunlight to fight climate change
30 September
Government confirms it will not deploy controversial technologies designed to cool the planet.
Electric cars have become mainstream in the past decade, making up one in four new car sales.

Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
29 September
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
More than a year after the law was signed, the state has made little progress and appears poised to miss a December deadline for a required report.
The partners behind a project in suburban Denver think they’ve found a way to accelerate the adoption of residential geothermal heating and cooling.
Democrat Rob Bonta is preparing to fight the president’s rollback of a regulatory keystone on climate.
Many choices we ask people to make to help the climate don’t reveal immediate results, but we found that changing diets can have a climate benefit and quickly reduce some health risks.
Germany has become the third country in Europe to unveil a national roadmap away from fossil fuels. But experts say targets still 'fall short'.
Panama’s center-right president called on world leaders to adopt a new non-binding treaty, building on his nation’s own national rights of nature laws.
The former U.S. vice president still has optimism for climate advocacy two decades after groundbreaking documentary.
As Michigan continues to examine its options for meeting its 100% clean energy goal, members of the state House gathered to consider a slate of bills to give the state authority over efforts to capture and store carbon emissions.
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