January 2026

British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) has approved an amendment to the Centerra Gold-owned Mt Milligan copper-gold mine environmental assessment certificate, authorising the mine near Fort St James to increase…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. This is not a topic I ever thought I’d get a PR email about, but we do get all kinds of odd PR pitches these days. It’s about wear & tear on cars,…

For years, Ethereum ran a proof-of-work system, similar to Bitcoin. Then, everything changed. From mid-September 2022, developers switched to a proof-of-stake method where miners were replaced with validators. Nothing much changed, only…

On December 16, Chinalco Peru, operator of the Toromocho copper mine, inaugurated its 1,000 m2 Integrated Operations Management Centre or Centro de Gestión Integrada de Operaciones (GIO) in Spanish. It said: “Chinalco Peru becomes the…

Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum developers care, above everything else, how the mainnet scales. This mission is super important, and matters. Ethereum, if anything, could have been the home of meme coins was it not for scaling troubles. Solana…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Vancouver, Canada — Maritime leaders from Canada’s West Coast are urging federal and provincial governments to explore the creation of a Canadian-owned…

Aave Labs is preparing a revenue-sharing plan that could change how value flows to AAVE holders after a tense governance dispute over fees and brand control. Stani Kulechov, the founder and CEO of Aave Labs, said on January 2 that the…

Montage Gold has selected Metso to deliver all feeders for its Koné gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, a project that the OEM is already providing grinding equipment to. The delivery includes a complete range of feeders – apron, belt, and…

BONK crypto’s sharp rebound is turning the early-2026 crypto bounce into a fresh test of “meme season” risk appetite. Bitcoin and major altcoins climbed over the last day. That move pulled higher-beta corners of the market along with…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (“HASI”) (NYSE: HASI), a leading investor in sustainable infrastructure assets, and Sunrun Inc. (Nasdaq: RUN),…