For truck drivers on Siberia’s ice highways, climate change is terrifying

With highways made of ice, including the frozen tops of lakes and rivers, warmer and earlier springs have added risk to truck drivers’ already-dangerous jobs.  
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2018/04/27/for-truck-drivers-on-siberias-ice-highways-climate-change-is-terrifying.html
Article courtesy of The Star by Andrew E Kramer The New York Times

New York City Aims for All-Electric Bus Fleet by 2040

NYC has more than 5,700 MTA buses. Taking the fleet electric would reduce climate-warming emissions and cut fuel, maintenance and health costs.  https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26042018/nyc-air-pollution-electric-bus-public-transportation-mta-clean-technology

Article courtesy of Inside Climate by Phil McKenna

(CNN)For anyone who used to play with slot cars as a child, Sweden's new electrified road might bring back some memories.

In the first of its kind, the Scandinavian country is trialling the world's first public road which allows electric vehicles to recharge while driving. Similar to a slot-car track, vehicles are able to connect to an electric rail that's embedded into the road.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/26/motorsport/sweden-electrified-road-intl-spt/index.html

Article courtesy of CNN by Bianca Britton

Puerto Rico Is Hit by a Total Blackout

Almost seven months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is experiencing a complete power outage. The island’s electricity provider said it will take from 24 to 36 hours to bring power back across the U.S. territory.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/04/puerto-rico-is-hit-by-a-total-blackout/558380/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29&utm_content=FeedBurner
Article courtesy of City Lab by Martin Echenique

End of the Road: Are Diesel Cars on the Way Out in Europe?

For two decades, environmentalist Jürgen Resch has locked horns with Germany’s mighty automobile industry, the backbone of Europe’s most powerful economy. And Resch has shown that he will do what Berlin’s top politicians won’t: hold carmakers — and German municipalities — to the letter of the law when it comes to the high levels of pollution spewed from diesel automobiles.  https://e360.yale.edu/features/end-of-the-road-are-diesel-cars-on-the-way-out-in-europe

Article courtesy of Yale Enviroment 360 by Paul Hockenos

These huge new wind turbines are a marvel. They’re also the future.

The declining price of solar power gets more press, but there are big things happening in wind technology too. And I mean big.

The math on wind turbines is pretty simple: Bigger is better. Specifically, there are two ways to produce more power from the wind in a given area.

The first is with bigger rotors and blades to cover a wider area. That increases the capacity of the turbine, i.e., its total potential production.  https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/3/8/17084158/wind-turbine-power-energy-blades

Article courtesy of VOX by David Roberts

The world is scrambling now that China is refusing to be a trash dumping ground

• For decades, China was the world's largest importer of waste but that's changing after Beijing banned 24 types of scraps from entering its borders starting January.  https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/16/climate-change-china-bans-import-of-foreign-waste-to-stop-pollution.html
• Article courtesy of CNBC by Yen Nee Lee