--- description: Alejandro de la Garza is a staff writer at TIME. He covers climate technology from EVs to geoengineering. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Alejandro de la Garza  ## Alejandro de la Garza Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Alejandro de la Garza is a staff writer at TIME. He covers climate technology from EVs to geoengineering.  ## Alejandro de la Garza Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jan 8, 2024 ### [Inside the Nuclear Fusion Facility That Changed the World](https://time.com/6344755/nuclear-fusion-nif/) TIME followed government scientists in the year after they achieved the biggest scientific breakthro... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Dec 12, 2023 ### [The EV Battery Innovation That Could Usurp Solid-State Technology](https://time.com/6358257/lithium-ion-solid-state-ev-battery-innovation/) Despite the solid-state battery hype, the lithium-ion batteries powering today’s EVs are pretty good... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Dec 4, 2023 ### [The Strategic Ambiguity of Toyota's EV Play](https://time.com/6341071/toyota-slow-ev-transition/) Toyota's overhyped solid-state battery is the latest feint in its slow-moving, abundantly-hedged EV ... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Nov 22, 2023 ### [The Climate Impact of Your Thanksgiving Travel vs. Turkey](https://time.com/6339053/climate-impact-thanksgiving-turkey-vs-travel/) TIME introduces the 'Turkey Threshold': the point at which travel emissions exceed those of the meat... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Nov 22, 2023 ### [Alt-Meat Companies Are Grappling With A Harsh Reality](https://time.com/6339050/plant-based-meat-movement-harsh-reality/) At a meat-reduction conference in Denver, some people showed flagging spirits amid a year of bad new... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Nov 22, 2023 ### [How Oil and Gas Companies Can Help Build Geothermal Energy](https://time.com/6338438/oil-gas-geothermal-energy/) Geothermal energy is critical to the clean energy transition. And some say oil companies have the te... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Nov 13, 2023 ### [Affordable Carbon Removal May be Here](https://time.com/6333975/startup-graphyte-trap-carbon-emissions-affordably/) Graphyte, a Bill Gates-backed startup, says it can remove carbon from the atmosphere for $100 per to... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Nov 2, 2023 ### [James Hansen Calls for Geoengineering as a Climate Solution](https://time.com/6330957/james-hansen-climate-warning-geoengineering-study/) James Hansen alerted Congress to climate change in 1988\. Now, in a controversial new paper, he has a... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Oct 31, 2023 ### [Meet the Company Leading The Carbon Capture Race](https://time.com/6328318/charm-industrial-peter-reinhardt-carbon-capture/) All eyes are on Silicon Valley startup Charm Industrial to see if its carbon capture model will make... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Oct 26, 2023 ### [DOE Is Spending $36 Million On Ocean Carbon-Capture Research](https://time.com/6328555/energy-department-funding-ocean-carbon-capture-research/) Companies want to store CO2 in the ocean. The U.S. Energy Department is funding new projects to help... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Oct 24, 2023 ### [This Company Wants To Replace Fossil Fuel Heating With Batteries](https://time.com/6328052/antora-energy-thermal-batteries-factory/) Antora Energy is building its first factory to produce thermal batteries. It could be a big move for... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Oct 23, 2023 ### [Artificially Cooling Rivers Could Protect Fish From Climate Change](https://time.com/6327355/artificially-cooling-rivers-protect-fish-climate-change/) Researchers in Canada are experimenting with ways of creating cold spots in warming rivers to help m... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Oct 12, 2023 ### [McCarthy is Blaming Climate Policy for the Attacks in Israel](https://time.com/6322995/kevin-mccarthy-israel-attacks-biden-climate-policy/) Former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sought to blame Biden Admin. policy, including emissi... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Oct 12, 2023 ### [Gaza's Energy Crisis Could Turn Hospitals into 'Morgues'](https://time.com/6322986/gaza-electricity-crisis-hospital-impact/) The day after Gaza's only power station ran out of fuel, the enclave's situation is growing increasi... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Sep 25, 2023 ### [How to Fix Carbon Offsets](https://time.com/6317130/can-we-fix-carbon-offsets/) Nature-based carbon offsets have taken a great deal of criticism. Kelly Kizzier at the Bezos Earth F... 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