Climate Change Driving Food Insecurity In Small Islands, Study Finds

The report from the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change highlights the growing relationship between climate change and food insecurity

Fashion CFOs Are Turning Sustainability Into A P&L Issue

As sustainability costs rise, fashion CFOs and supplier finance leaders are tying climate, materials and factory investments to margin and resilience.

Gritt raises $32M for AI robots that bolt onto existing construction equipment to build solar farms faster
Gritt raises $32M for AI robots that bolt onto existing construction equipment to build solar farms faster

San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with solar farms. The $26 million Series A was led by Obv…

Sila raises $300M to fast-track gigascale anode production and shore up US battery supply chains
Sila raises $300M to fast-track gigascale anode production and shore up US battery supply chains

Sila, the battery materials company formerly known as Sila Nanotechnologies, has raised $300 million in a private equity round led by Atreides Management and Sutter Hill Ventures to expand its silicon anode manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, Washington…

A cloud tenant could rattle the power grid with nothing but a rented GPU, researchers say
A cloud tenant could rattle the power grid with nothing but a rented GPU, researchers say

AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at Zhejiang University set out the idea in a preprint called Bit2Watt, accepted to a leading h…

Circular Materials secures €11.8M to scale critical raw material recovery technology

Italian cleantech company Circular Materials, which developstechnology to recover critical and strategic raw materials from industrialwastewater, has secured €11.8 million in Simple Agreement for Futu…

A rare bird appeared in Brazil. AI had put it there.
A rare bird appeared in Brazil. AI had put it there.

A rare bird turned up in central Brazil, or so it seemed. A photo on the wildlife platform iNaturalist showed a red-winged blackbird. That North American species had never turned up in that part of Brazil. It would have been a notable first. It was not…

Clean Energy Tech Deals Are Booming—Powered By Data Centers

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how the U.S. EV market is about to get quirkier and the bipartisan appeal of recycling.

Rodale Institute Breaks Ground On Ambitious New Center For Regenerative Organic Innovation, Part Of $139 Million Farmland Transition Campaign

Rodale Institute leans on its foundation of transformational research to advance regenerative organic agriculture with new education center

Hyperlocal Supply Chains Are Emerging As Hospitality’s Next Big Asset

Hyperlocal supply chains are helping hospitality businesses build resilience, protect against climate shocks and reduce price and supplier-related volatility.