NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! What if your old bottle of cooking oil could help save the planet and your smartphone? That’s the big idea behind a groundbreaking discovery by researchers in Finland. Scientists from the University of Helsinki and the University of Jyväskylä have found that you can recover silver from…
After a historic drought that paralyzed vessel transits through the Panama Canal, the Panama Canal Authority is moving ahead with major investments in new infrastructure to mitigate future droughts and the risk of low water levels that in recent years plagued the key global trade gateway. The Panama Canal depends on fresh water for its…
Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng speaks to reporters at the electric carmaker’s stand at the IAA auto show in Munich, Germany on September 8, 2025. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Germany this week played host to one of the world’s biggest auto shows — but in the heartland of Europe’s auto industry, it was buzzy Chinese electric…
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin makes a water policy announcement and holds a signing ceremony with members of the West Virginia Congressional Delegation at the EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 18, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday a rule to end a mandatory program requiring 8,000 facilities…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Tired of dragging your bins to the curb and waking up to the roar of garbage trucks? A new robot called HARR-E could change that routine. Built by American manufacturing giant Oshkosh Corp., this autonomous trash collector comes to your door when you call it, just like…
Twelve years have passed since China launched its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ to connect the Asian powerhouse to the rest of Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Much of the hype around the mega investment and infrastructure project has now died down. The idea was to boost China’s economic and trade partnerships in…
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump intends to withdraw federal approval for US Wind’s offshore wind farm off the coast of Maryland, according to a filing in the U.S. District Court in Delaware on Friday. In the filing, attorneys from the Department of Justice asked the court to stay a lawsuit challenging the Interior Department’s…
Witthaya Prasongsin | Moment | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s attack on solar and wind projects threatens to raise energy prices for consumers and undermine a stretched electric grid that’s already straining to meet rapidly growing demand, renewable energy executives warn. Trump has long said wind power turbines are unattractive and endanger birds, and that…
A woman takes pictures of the waves before Hurricane Erin’s near approach, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S. August 20, 2025. Maria Alejandra Cardona | Reuters Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster storm slowly…
Hurricane Erin, the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season, in a composite satellite image on Aug. 16, 2025. Cira/noaa | Via Reuters Hurricane Erin weakened to a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, its outer bands lashing the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, as forecasters warned the storm was rapidly growing in size and would…
