Kelly is an experienced writer with 15 years of experience exploring the big stories that shape our world, from tech breakthroughs and space exploration to climate, energy, and the fascinating quirks of science. She has a talent for turning complex ideas into sharp, memorable insights that stay with readers long after they’ve finished reading.
Princeton, Iowa, spent nearly $800,000 building a backup well—then had to shut it down. Testing in September 2024 found nitrate levels of 12.1 mg/L in the…
The Bureau of Land Management has issued its final decision approving the Dewey-Burdock uranium in-situ recovery project in Fall River County, South Dakota. The ruling, which…
Wheat and rice feed hundreds of millions of people across India — and for years, something invisible has been quietly cutting into those harvests. Coal-fired power…
Kazakhstan has formally moved its 2.5 billion cubic meters per year gas processing plant at the Kashagan field into active implementation, with a Chinese consortium appointed…
European Energy has completed the sale of Trinity Hall Solar Farm—a 15 MWac operational solar park in Bedfordshire, UK—to Elm Solar Holdings Limited, an entity established…
BW Offshore has announced that the BW Opal FPSO has successfully completed the Interim Performance Test (IPT), a defined milestone in the commissioning program for the…
The Bureau of Land Management’s Vernal Field Office has approved nine Applications for Permit to Drill at the Lestrange 24-1-722 Well Pad in Uintah County, Utah.…
Every day, light from office lamps, phone screens, and windows pours into rooms and disappears — absorbed by walls, furniture, and floors without generating a single…
Thea Energy has announced a collaboration with Nvidia, Synopsys, Argonne National Laboratory, and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to build a digital twin of Helios, its stellarator…
China’s nuclear power capacity has grown 87 percent over the past decade, rising from 31.4 gigawatts in 2016 to 58.7 gigawatts as of May 2026, according…
For the first time in decades, the federal government under President Donald Trump is moving to open California’s coastal waters to new oil and gas drilling.In…
Grain LNG has launched a formal Expression of Interest process, inviting market participants to register non-binding interest in regasification capacity set to become available at its…
Taiwan spent two decades building a wind energy fleet ambitious enough to anchor its clean power future. Turbines now dot its coastlines and hillsides, humming through…
The Bureau of Land Management has accepted winning bids on 47 geothermal lease parcels in New Mexico, covering 152,381 acres and generating $16,581,926 in total receipts.…
MPC Energy Solutions has announced that its 66.1 MWp San Patricio solar PV plant in Guatemala has secured its final permit and entered the testing and…
Salt River Project and Aypa Power have brought the Pediment Battery Energy Storage System online in Mesa, Arizona — a 250 MW / 1,000 MWh facility…
Britain’s offshore wind industry has spent years pushing further out to sea, chasing stronger, steadier winds in waters too deep for conventional fixed-bottom turbines. Now a…
NB Power CEO Lori Clark told a legislative committee in Fredericton that a proposed 500-megawatt natural-gas-and-diesel plant remains the best available option to prevent blackouts in…
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a microwave-based process to recover cathodes from spent lithium-ion batteries and remake them into new ones that meet current…
Aker BP and DeepOcean have completed what they describe as Norway’s first fully shore-controlled advanced subsea operation — stabilizing a well at the Idun Nord field…
Woodside Energy Group moved quickly Monday to distance itself from takeover speculation, saying it is not aware of any incoming bid from ExxonMobil and has not…
Crude oil inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma, have fallen below 25 million barrels—less than 2 million barrels above the storage hub’s operational floor, according to Wood Mackenzie.…
The UK’s offshore wind sector needs to more than double its workforce — from 40,000 workers today to as many as 94,000 — by the end…
Biological systems are constantly generating electrical signals – bacteria digesting waste, enzymes breaking down glucose – but those signals have always been frustratingly faint. Capturing them…
TGS, through its Prediktor division, has been contracted to deliver its PowerView™ Plant SCADA solution for Scatec’s Grootfontein solar power project in South Africa’s Western Cape.…
Venezuela and Shell signed five formal energy agreements on June 11, 2026, in a ceremony broadcast on state television – a milestone that signals how quickly…
Beneath every offshore oil rig and wind farm lies a sprawling network of pipelines, anchors, cables, and risers — infrastructure worth billions, built on seabeds that…
Japan’s JERA, the world’s largest LNG buyer, has signed a 20-year supply agreement with Malaysia’s Petronas — the country’s second-largest LNG supplier. Under the deal, deliveries…
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, has acquired Apparition Geoservices GmbH — securing exclusive access to a proprietary simultaneous source seismic acquisition and…
SLB OneSubsea has secured an engineering, procurement, and construction contract from bp to supply a subsea boosting system for the Thunder Horse deepwater project in the…
Nuclear energy has long been synonymous with power plants feeding the electrical grid. But at the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference on June 1, a panel…
Under the open sky, a small reactor does something quietly unusual: it coaxes carbon dioxide straight from the air into a specialized liquid solution. Then, it…
German energy company Uniper has signed a letter of interest with Canada’s Ksi Lisims LNG for a possible offtake agreement of 2 million tonnes of LNG…
On June 1, at the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference in Denver, engineers from Idaho National Laboratory laid out what it actually took to build MARVEL…
Mineral dust drifting off the Sahara and other arid regions is one of the atmosphere’s most abundant — and least understood — climate forces. Depending on…
Most people picture fossil fuel pollution at its edges — the drilling rig punching into the earth, the smokestack exhaling above a power plant. But between…
Scientists at Idaho National Laboratory have published findings identifying an unusual quantum behavior in plutonium hexaboride, a compound known as PuB6. The material, they report, is…
General Atomics and the Department of Energy have launched the development of design concepts for a facility that would do something fusion research has never done…
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its cleanup contractor, United Cleanup Oak Ridge, have cleared their first-year target for processing legacy…
Molten salt reactor developer Natura Resources announced on June 15, 2026, that it has entered into a formal agreement to establish a framework for a long-term…
On June 9, 2026, Tennessee became the first U.S. state to put its own regulatory framework for nuclear fusion machines into effect. The rules — an…
Solar thermoelectric generators have been a quiet frustration for decades. They can pull electricity from virtually any heat source — not just sunlight — yet standard,…
Energy Dome and Salt River Project (SRP) have announced an agreement to deploy a 19 MW, 10-hour CO2-based battery energy storage system at SRP’s Coronado Generating…
Solar flares are among the most violent events in our solar system—sudden eruptions in the Sun’s outer atmosphere that flood Earth with X-rays, threaten satellites, and…
Kansas State University brought back its standalone bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering in fall 2024 — nearly 30 years after the program was absorbed into mechanical…
The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order on June 11, 2026, allowing Duke Energy to run its power plants at maximum output across the…
Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly toured natural gas production facilities in the West Delta Deep Marine area of Beheira Governorate this week, accompanied by Petroleum Minister…
Japan and the United Kingdom have signed an Offshore Wind Compact committing Japan to facilitate up to £9 billion ($12.08 billion) in investment for 5.9 GW…
South Korea’s Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy Kim Jung-kwan traveled to Riyadh on June 13–14, 2026, and signed a Memorandum of Understanding on crude oil…
Wind farms across Ireland are set to contribute €74.87 million in commercial rates to local authorities in 2026 — up from €69.27 million in 2025, an…
