Chinese construction crews have completed encircling the Tarim Basin – one of the most forbidding places on Earth – with an extra-high voltage “energy ring”. The project, which has taken 15 years to build, transforms the vast inland basin – home to China’s largest desert – into a massive new-energy transmission hub. The 4,197km (2,608-mile)…
A few days after Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill that ended most subsidies for renewable energy, among many other things, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, Nvidia Corporation, became the first to pass $US4 trillion ($6.08 trillion) in value. And a few days after that, on Thursday, Bitcoin hit a new record…
Q: The tornado sirens once again wailed recently, warning the city when the threat was actually to the south of Mankato and moving east. There is nothing wrong with being overly cautious about severe weather conditions, but I suspect many people might be ignoring the siren or at minimum seeking localized information from the National…
Beijing’s 22 million residents were asked to stay indoors on Saturday, as powerful winds swept across northern China. The winds toppled trees, disrupted travel and sports, and caused dust storms across the region. The winds, which in Beijing reached 101 miles per hour on Saturday afternoon local time, stemmed from a polar vortex in Mongolia…
Lo más probable es que varios tornados extremadamente fuertes arrasen partes del centro de Estados Unidos el miércoles, antes de que inundaciones que podrían ser únicas en la vida azoten la misma región del Medio Oeste y el sur, dijeron los meteorólogos. Las oficinas del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional advirtieron de la posibilidad de un “brote…
Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall on Friday afternoon in northwestern Australia, bringing intense rain and destructive winds to a sparsely populated region of the country that is home to ports and mines critical to the global economy. The authorities ordered residents to stay indoors. Australian meteorologists said the storm had made landfall at 12:30 p.m….
Hong Kong is set to record its coldest day of this winter on Sunday, with the Observatory forecasting temperatures will fall to a low of 9 degrees Celsius [48.2 Fahrenheit] under the influence of an intense monsoon. The coldest day recorded so far this winter was January 12, when the mercury fell to 11 degrees…
Happy Saturday, everyone! Make sure to enjoy the “warmer” temperatures today and tonight while they last. We have arctic air on the way that will make temperatures plummet starting Sunday night. Temperatures will remain BELOW FREEZING between Sunday night and Tuesday night – this includes both high and low temperatures. The high today will be…
A fire erupted at a shipyard in Aberdeen on Friday, sending dark clouds billowing into the neighbourhood, a Hong Kong government spokesman said. The fire escalated into a No 3 alarm within half an hour at the shipyard on Shum Wan Road at 4.11pm, according to the spokesman. “Members of the public who are being…
Startup floating wind technology company Aikido Technologies is ready to launch the first demonstration of its unique folding floating wind platform. The company promotes its technology as providing a faster and more cost-effective solution to the deployment of floating offshore wind turbines. Aikido Technologies was founded in 2022 with the support of Breakthrough Energy…