Central American Gyre likely to form fueling late-season tropical development off Central American coastline

As we get further into October, tropical activity becomes less focused on the tropical Atlantic Basin and more focused in the Caribbean and Gulf. And this year is no exception as many computer forecast models show the potential for a Central...

Why Fossil Fuels Are Having Such A Hard Time Competing With Renewables

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The 3 reasons fossil fuels have such a hard time competing are: It keeps getting harder to find and extract fossil fuels. Renewable technology lowers costs far faster than...

Four key climate components are losing stability

Summary: Four of the most critical components of the Earth’s climate system are showing clear signs of destabilization, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience. Using observation-based data, an international team of scientists has...

Carbon footprint: The comeback of sails in shipping sees huge environmental and economic benefits

But the hit to Jourdan’s pay is buying him peace of mind. When his 3-year-old son, Marcel, grows up, the burly French mariner wants to be able to explain what he did to make a dent in the the shipping industry’s huge carbon footprint. The...

Brazil Tops Latin America’s Crypto Charts with $318.8 Billion in Activity

Brazil has become Latin America’s dominant crypto market after logging $318.8 billion in cryptocurrency transaction volume between July 2024 and June 2025, accounting for about one-third of the region’s total crypto activity. That figure...

China's distant-water fishing fleet is engine of environmental destruction, labour exploitation: Report

Colombo, October 5 (IANS): China's distant-water fishing fleet is an engine of environmental destruction and labour exploitation, which, if continued, will keep on destroying ecosystems, undermining food security and violating human rights, a...

The mother of Colombian corals

SAN ANDRÉS, Colombia — Nearly 50 years after she first put on a wetsuit, Elvira Alvarado still remembers coming upon a coral reef off Colombia's Caribbean coast. "Everything was alive. And it was green and bright orange. And there were fishes. And...

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

Six years after Donald Trump allegedly wrote a suggestive birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, the current US president put his name to something that now seems almost as shocking: a letter calling for action on the climate crisis. In 2009 Trump,...

Brazilian town of Atafona suffers from severe coastal erosion

Residents talk in front of a house eroded by the sea in Atafona, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Oct. 4, 2025. In recent years, Atafona, a coastal town in northern Rio de Janeiro state, has been gradually swallowed by the sea due to severe coastal...

Prince William Considers His Children's Futures Before 2030 Climate Pledge

Prince William referenced his three young children’s futures to mark the halfway mark to his 2030 climate crisis activism pledge. The royal, 43, shared a short film via Instagram on Saturday, October 4, in advance of his upcoming Earthshot Prize...

Has climate change created the first grue jay?

A rare hybrid bird identified in a suburb of San Antonio, Texas (center panel, credit: Brian Stokes) is the result of mating between a male blue jay (left, credit: Travis Maher/Cornell Lab of Ornithology/Macaulay Library) and a female green jay...

Meet Carmen Portinho, the pioneering engineer who shaped Brazilian architecture

You may not be instantly familiar with the name Carmen Portinho, yet her work stands out. Perched imperiously on the hill that gives it its name, the Pedregulho housing complex rises like a modernist temple. Its sumptuous, sinuous form cuts a...

Why Venezuelan gas matters

IN the world of Caribbean energy politics, the Dragon gas deal is a sharp example of ambition undercut by poor diplomacy. Conceived in 2018 under the Rowley administration, the agreement between Trinidad and Tobago, Shell and Venezuela’s PDVSA...

Growing resilience: Community farming fortifying T&T against climate change

As Trinidad and To­ba­go com­mem­o­rates World Food Day on Oc­to­ber 16, three UN agen­cies–FAO Trinidad and To­ba­go, GEF SGP Trinidad and To­ba­go and WFP Caribbean–have col­lab­o­rat­ed to ex­plore the ways a re­vival of house­hold and...

Environment prize nominees 'heroes of our time', says William

Daniela RelphSenior royal correspondent ShareSave The Prince of Wales has described those in the running for his environmental Earthshot prize as "heroes of our time". Prince William will travel to Rio de Janeiro next month for the ceremony - the...

Brazil holds 6th strategic dialogue with NSA Doval

New Delhi, Oct 4: India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met Celso Luis Nunes Amorim, Special Advisor to the President of Brazil, in New Delhi on October 3 for the 6th India-Brazil Strategic Dialogue. Ambassador Amorim was accompanied by a...

Union Minister Hardeep Puri holds talks with Brazililian officials on Indian investments

New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri held talks with Special Advisor to the President of Brazil Celso Luis Nunes Amorim and distinguished senior Brazilian government officials and...

Our favourite hotels on the tiny, idyllic Caribbean island of Grenada

It can be hard knowing where to start in Grenada. Sipping cocktails under swaying palms? Dining on jumbo seafood to a soundtrack of steel pan drums? Eating some of the world’s finest chocolate at its source? Though small in size — just 133 square...

Hardeep Puri holds talks with Brazilian officials on biofuels, energy transition, and investments

Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri held talks with Special Advisor to the President of Brazil Celso Luis Nunes Amorim and distinguished senior Brazilian government officials and advisors at a dinner hosted by...

Is China climate good or bad — or both?

You could tell me that China still gets most of its electricity from coal and is building more new coal power plants than anywhere else in the world. And you’d be right. You could also tell me that China (with a sixth of the world’s population) is...