Energy & Environment Editor, Lonic
Elias covers energy systems and industrial decarbonisation, with a background in grid planning for a European transmission operator.
Seasonal hurricane outlooks are probabilistic tools, not predictions of where storms will strike. Here is what the hurricane season 2026 forecasts are and are not telling coastal communities.
Crude has traded in a wide band all year, pulled between production restraint, geopolitical risk premiums and a demand picture that refuses to follow the historical script.
A cargo vessel was struck by an unidentified projectile transiting the Strait of Hormuz, hardening fears that the US-Iran conflict could disrupt the world's single most important oil and gas chokepoint. Trump says reopening could come 'literally by tomorrow'.
The transmission from a Strait of Hormuz disruption to oil and gas prices, inflation expectations and central bank policy is neither instant nor uniform. Here is how the mechanics actually work, and why Asian economies are the most exposed.
The World Meteorological Organization forecasts El Nino intensifying through October 2026, with hotter-than-normal conditions likely across nearly every land area on Earth.
Brazil's Amazon deforestation figures for January to June hit their lowest point in ten years, though experts warn that degradation from fires and drought is outpacing the improvement.
Hungary is closing the Paks nuclear plant for the first time in 44 years after record-low Danube levels left its cooling system unable to draw water from the river.
France and Spain are carrying the worst of a summer that arrived weeks ahead of schedule. The damage is severe, but the more important story is how the season is changing shape.
Heat domes, vapour pressure deficit and fuel moisture sound technical. They are also the three numbers that decide whether a spark becomes a headline.
Most evacuation failures are not dramatic. They are ten minutes lost looking for documents. A practical, evidence-based checklist for households in fire-exposed regions.
Solar and batteries won on price. The remaining emissions live in industrial heat, cement, steel and transmission — and they need different tools.
Fabs caught up. Grids did not. The binding constraint on computing has quietly moved from silicon to electricity.