April 18, 2026

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Canada’s revived high-speed rail (HSR) proposal deserves a serious hearing. It also deserves an outside-view assessment grounded in the history of rail…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. In a paper published by PNAS on March 23, 2026, researchers Earle Wilson, Lexi Arlen, and Ethan Campbell wrote in the introduction: “Antarctic sea ice is an…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. New IEA report highlights growing mismatch between accelerating use of rare earths across a wide range of technologies and slow pace of supply…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Despite the best efforts of US President Donald Trump to kill the domestic offshore wind industry in its cradle, the hits just keep on coming. In the latest…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The community solar movement has emerged as a significant source of new generating capacity in the US. Last year the sector passed the 10-gigawatt mark, and…

The SEC Division of Trading and Markets published a staff statement,  telling certain wallet-linked crypto trading apps they can operate without a broker-dealer license – for now – as long as they function as neutral software…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. In our April Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we expect U.S. hydropower generation will increase by 5% in 2026 but remain 1.8% below the 10-year average…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. During 2025, the U.S. electric power sector retired 2.6 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, the least since 2010. At the…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. It’s long been one of the most enigmatic things about this political era we’re in here in the United States. Well, since 2016 at least. How can someone who…

BHP Invent has deepened its engagement with China’s innovation ecosystem, signing two Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with leading Chinese research and engineering organisations, China ENFI and BGRIMM Technology Group. The agreements…