June 2026

Why Did Gold Prices Drop? With gold experiencing one of the most remarkable rallies in modern history, many investors are now asking the same question: why did gold prices drop? After surging to record highs, gold has recently pulled back,…

In crypto news today (June 25), BTC USD crashed below $60,000 late yesterday but has since recovered to $61,500, with nearly $1Bn in liquidations piling up and $780M of that $994M figure coming from long positions. The Bitcoin crash…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. More and more heavy-duty electric trucks are hitting the roads in Australia. CleanTechnica has written about that here and here. Before we go any further, we…

Ontario’s mine rescue competition season ended June 12 in Sudbury, where Glencore’s Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations’ (INO) mine rescue team claimed the overall champion title for 2026. The crew successfully completed a mock emergency…

China delivered a two-part signal to the crypto market this week: Tencent began testing Xiaowei, a native AI agent embedded in WeChat’s 1.4 billion-user platform, while the PBOC (People’s Bank of China) published a sweeping…

Finning UK & Ireland has supplied its 10,000th industrial engine to McCloskey International, as demand for the company’s material processing equipment grows globally, it says. Finning has been supplying engines for McCloskey machines…

In XRP news today, Ripple has received a preliminary ‘Green Light Letter’ for its Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), the country’s…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Hyundai Motor and Kia introduce a first-of-its-kind ‘Plasma Care UVC’ technology, utilizing Far-UVC light for in-vehicle sanitization The advanced system…

As Thiess continues to deliver to production requirements at Lake Vermont, it has mobilised a fourth Liebherr R 9800 excavator to support ongoing operations. The deployment at Jellinbah Group’s mine in Queensland, Australia, reflects…

In XRP news today, withdrawal transactions on Binance accounted for 53.8% of total XRP transaction activity over a seven-day rolling period ending June 23, 2026, the highest reading since June 2024, according to CryptoQuant, the on-chain…