Climate & Energy blogs

Microsoft's corporate blog, with company announcements on AI, OpenAI, carbon goals, products, and policy commitments.

Top post: Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030

Low-tech Magazine covers older and low-energy technologies, and runs on a self-hosted solar-powered website.

Top post: This website has 81% battery power remaining

Bill Gates writes about global health, climate change, technology, and books he has read, including reviews and annual letters.

Top post: The Deadliest Animal in the World

A news blog on emerging technology covering energy, space, batteries, nuclear power, and longevity, with frequent data-driven posts.

Top post: Deaths per TWH by Energy Source

Skeptical Science is a site run by volunteers that rebuts common climate change myths using published scientific research.

Top post: Global Warming & Climate Change Myths

Green design and sustainability news site covering architecture, clean energy, environmental technology, and eco-friendly products.

Top post: The Fallacy of Cleaning the Gyres of Plastic (2013)

Tom Murphy, a physics professor at UCSD, runs numbers on energy, resources, and economic growth to test whether they can continue.

Top post: Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012)

Watts Up With That? is a climate-skeptic blog that disputes mainstream climate science and publishes posts on warming, sea levels and related claims.

Top post: Tesla Battery Swap Is The Hoax Of The Year

Digiconomist, run by Alex de Vries, tracks the energy use and electronic waste of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Top post: Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

Casey Handmer, a physicist and founder of Terraform Industries, writes about Starship, solar power, and space industrialization.

Top post: Starship is still not understood

Brian Potter writes on construction, manufacturing, housing costs, infrastructure and industrial history.

Top post: A Cycle of Misery: The business of building commercial aircraft

RealClimate is a blog by working climate scientists that explains climate research, model projections and common misconceptions.

Top post: Links to climate data, codes, model outputs, reconstructions, paleo-records, ...

BloombergNEF's blog shares analyses of battery prices, electric vehicles, energy transition, and data center power demand.

Top post: Behind scenes take lithium ion battery prices

Yale Climate Connections publishes climate science explainers and fact checks on topics like heat pumps, flying versus driving, and carbon footprints.

Top post: Evolving climate math of flying vs driving

Cliff Mass, a University of Washington atmospheric scientist, writes about Pacific Northwest weather, forecasting models, and climate claims.

Top post: Was Global Warming the Cause of the Great Northwest Heatwave? Science Says No

Tomas Pueyo writes Uncharted Territories, long essays on geopolitics, economics, technology, climate, and pandemics.

Top post: Seaflooding

Andy Masley writes a Substack arguing that AI's water and energy use is small next to everyday activities, and criticizes misleading coverage.

Top post: The AI water issue is fake

Bill Gates's personal site, with book reviews, reading lists, and posts on global health, climate, and his foundation's work.

Top post: Bill Gates - Bookshelf

George Monbiot is a British journalist who writes on ecology, farming, capitalism, and politics.

Top post: The Gift of Death

The Breakthrough Journal, from the Breakthrough Institute, publishes essays on energy, nuclear power, agriculture, and technology's effect on the environment.

Top post: Livestock dont contribute 14 5 of global greenhouse gas emissions

The Center for Global Development's blog, covering global poverty, foreign aid, health, and development economics, with data-driven analysis.

Top post: Why Are Geniuses Destroying Jobs in Uganda?

What Is Nuclear is an educational site explaining nuclear energy, reactors, waste, costs, and the history of reactor development.

Top post: Waste

Grady Hall's Practical Engineering explains civil engineering and infrastructure, such as power grids, landfills, dams, and building failures, in text and video.

Top post: Repairing Underground Power Cables Is Nearly Impossible

The Equation is the blog of the Union of Concerned Scientists, covering climate, energy, electric vehicles and nuclear weapons policy.

Top post: Are Electric Vehicles Better for the Climate? Yes.

Stuart McMillen is an Australian cartoonist who makes comics on addiction, energy use, media and ecological limits.

Top post: Rat Park drug experiment cartoon

Engaging Data builds interactive charts and calculators, covering topics like California energy and reservoirs, maps, and early retirement planning.

Top post: Rich, Broke or Dead?

Sightline Institute is a Pacific Northwest think tank writing on housing, zoning, transportation, and low-carbon cities.

Top post: Yes, You Can Build Your Way to Affordable Housing

Judith Curry, a climatologist who left academia, writes about climate data, models, uncertainty, and the politics of climate science.

Top post: Climate Scientists versus Climate Data

David Roberts's newsletter and podcast covers clean energy, climate policy, and the technologies and politics of decarbonization.

Top post: Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly

An energy and climate newsletter that uses data to examine topics like coal, nuclear construction, EVs, and AI energy demand.

Top post: China is building more coal plants but might burn less coal

The Oil Drum was a community site on oil, energy supply, and energy futures, which has since closed.

Top post: The Energy Trap

Columbia University's Earth Institute publishes articles on climate, energy, water, and sustainability topics such as cement emissions, fog harvesting, and planetary boundaries.

Top post: The Fog Collectors: Harvesting Water From Thin Air

Google X's company blog, covering moonshot projects like Loon balloons, Makani energy kites, Glass, and Dandelion geothermal heating.

Top post: Alphabet Winds Down Loon

Ramez Naam, an author and energy technologist, writes about falling costs of solar, wind, batteries, and electric vehicles.

Top post: Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap

Streets.mn is a Minneapolis–St. Paul community blog on streets, transit, walkability, land use, and urban planning.

Top post: Chart of the day vehicle weight vs road damage levels

Doomberg is an anonymous author writing a Substack on energy, chemicals, commodities, and financial markets.

Top post: Dollars Ex Machina

The Urbanist is a Seattle-based publication on urban planning, transit, housing policy, and density.

Top post: Visualizing Compatible Density

EnergySage News is the blog of a solar marketplace, explaining solar panel costs, efficiency, lifespan, batteries and policy.

Top post: How much does the average solar panel installation cost in the u s

Energy Post is a European site covering energy policy, renewables, nuclear power, and the energy transition.

Top post: Dispelling the nuclear baseload myth

The American Geophysical Union's blog network covers landslides, earthquakes, carbon dioxide, and other geoscience topics.

Top post: The final days of sub-400 ppm carbon dioxide

Company blog of Ecosia, the tree-planting search engine, covering finances, ownership, AI features and its European search index with Qwant.

Top post: Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index

Jason Hickel, an economic anthropologist, writes about global inequality, poverty, degrowth, and critiques of claims of progress against poverty.

Top post: A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty

Shopify's corporate news site with announcements on layoffs, compensation, acquisitions, logistics, and its climate and carbon removal spending.

Top post: Shopify lays off 10% of staff

Visual Capitalist's Elements section turns energy, metals, and climate data into charts on solar, batteries, EVs, gold, and nuclear power.

Top post: How much land power us solar

A magazine on low-tech solutions from the past and present, such as fermentation, pigeon towers, water johads and off-grid refrigeration.

Top post: Fermentation and Daily Life

Austin Vernon writes about energy, nuclear power, geothermal, storage, and defense, drawing on his engineering background.

Top post: Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?

DeSmog is a news site investigating climate science denial, fossil fuel industry lobbying, fracking, and the funding behind think tanks.

Top post: EQT CEO Says Fracking Revolution Has Been 'A Disaster' for Drillers, Investors

Deep Sea News is a blog by marine scientists covering ocean life, science, and environmental issues.

Top post: How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline

A nuclear power advocate who writes about reactors, regulation and the history of the anti-nuclear movement.

Top post: South texas project unit 1 tripped at 0537 on feb 15 2021

Euan Mearns' energy blog, with data-driven posts on nuclear, solar, wind, storage, EROEI and atmospheric CO2.

Top post: How long does it take to build a nuclear power plant

Gail Tverberg, an actuary, writes about energy limits, economic growth, peak oil, and why she thinks green energy and growth are constrained.

Top post: Speech from 1957 Predicting Peak Oil

Heatmap is a news outlet covering climate and energy, including EVs, the grid, heat pumps, carbon removal, and energy policy.

Top post: Reconductoring: An easy way to expand the grid

Funranium Labs is a blog by a radiation safety and laser professional on nuclear topics, lasers, regulation, and safety stories.

Top post: Laser Products I Hate

Tony Heller disputes mainstream climate science, claiming NOAA temperature records are tampered with and that extreme weather and sea level trends are misreported.

Top post: 100% of US Warming Is Due to NOAA Data Tampering

The Last Driver License Holder tracks autonomous vehicles, analyzing California disengagement reports, Waymo's finances, and the shift from oil to electric vehicles.

Top post: Disengagement Reports 2018 – Final Results

Eli Dourado, an economist and technology writer, covers cargo airships, supersonic flight, geothermal energy, geoengineering, and AI.

Top post: Notes on Technology in the 2020s

Roy Spencer, a climatologist known for satellite temperature records, blogs about global temperature data and skeptical views of climate models.

Top post: Latest global temperatures

GE's corporate news site covers its engineering work, including 3D printing, turbines, medical imaging, and indoor farming.

Top post: Japanese Farmer Builds High-Tech Indoor Veggie Factory

Ludens documents self-built projects from a rural home in Chile, including a microhydro plant, engines, transformer winding and a Geiger counter.

Top post: The microhydro plant

Building Science Corporation, a consultancy founded by Joseph Lstiburek, publishes guidance on how buildings handle moisture, heat, air and ventilation.

Top post: The Perfect Wall