Headline News:

• “Cracks In The Future Of Arctic Ice-Breaking” • Any plan for Greenland has to take ice into accout. It chokes the harbours, entombs minerals, and threatens ships all year. But the US has only three ice breakers. The country has entered agreements for more, but can only source the ships from adversaries or allies it has recently rebuffed. [Euronews]

Icebreaker (NOAA, Unsplash)

• “Judge Clears Vineyard To Restart Construction” • Vineyard Wind has been allowed to resume work after a Boston District Court judge granted a stay against the US administration’s lease suspension and construction pause issued on 22 December 2025. The order was “likely arbitrary and capricious,” Judge Murphy said in his ruling. [reNews]
• “The Trump Administration Has Secretly Rewritten Nuclear Safety Rules” • The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating. And it did this without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents that were obtained exclusively by NPR. [MTGamer]
• “Sea Levels Are Rising Across The World, But Scientists Say They’re About To Fall In Greenland” • Rising temperatures are causing sea levels to rise around the world. But in Greenland, the opposite is happening. Researchers warn that sea levels around the autonomous island are projected to fall despite heat-trapping emissions melting the ice. [Euronews]
• “100 GW Of CdTe Thin Film Solar By 2030, But How To Get There?” • Despite the sudden U-turn in US energy policy, US solar innovators keep pushing the renewable energy transition forward. The latest example comes from Ohio, where a research team outlined a way for the US to produce 100 GW of CdTe thin film solar per year by 2030. [CleanTechnica]

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