The hot button is contrails, skinny clouds that planes produce after they fly. Minimizing contrails means much less warming, and altering flight paths can cut back the quantity of contrail formation. Learn extra about how within the newest from my colleague James Temple. 

Maintaining with local weather  

New guidelines from the US Securities and Alternate Fee had been watered down, reducing off the very best likelihood we’ve had at forcing corporations to reckon with the hazards of local weather change, as Dara O’Rourke writes in a brand new opinion piece. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)

Sure, warmth pumps slash emissions, even when they’re hooked as much as a reasonably soiled grid. Switching to a warmth pump is best than heating with fossil fuels mainly all over the place within the US. (Canary Media)

Rivian introduced its new R2, a small SUV set to go on sale in 2026. The reveal indicators a shift to specializing in mass-market automobiles for the model. (Heatmap)

Toyota has targeted on promoting hybrid automobiles as an alternative of absolutely electrical ones, and it’s paying off financially. (New York Occasions)

→ Right here’s why I wrote in December 2022 that EVs wouldn’t be absolutely changing hybrids anytime quickly. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)

Some scientists suppose we must always all pay extra consideration to tiny aquatic vegetation referred to as azolla. They’ll repair their very own nitrogen and seize numerous carbon, making them candidate for crops and even biofuels. (Wired)

New York is suing the world’s largest meat firm. The corporate has mentioned it’ll produce meat with no emissions by 2040, a declare that’s false and deceptive, in keeping with the New York lawyer basic’s workplace. (Vox)

An enormous fireplace in Texas has destroyed a whole bunch of houses. Local weather change has fueled dry circumstances, and energy gear sparked an intense fireplace that firefighters struggled to include. (Grist)

→ Most of the houses destroyed within the blaze are uninsured, creating a tricky path forward for restoration. (Texas Tribune)