Nicolás Rivero - The Washington Post

Nicolás Rivero

Washington, D.C.

Climate solutions reporter

Education: Northwestern University, BS in Journalism

Nicolás Rivero joined The Washington Post as a climate solutions reporter in 2023. Previously, he covered climate change in South Florida for the Miami Herald and was the Knight Foundation innovator-in-residence at the Florida International University Lee Caplin School of Journalism & Media. Before that, he covered technology and transportation at Quartz, where he also wrote newsletters and created news chatbots.
Latest from Nicolás Rivero

5 tips to avoid getting stranded on an EV road trip this summer

With a little planning, you can pull off a summer road trip in an EV without stressing about battery range or finding a charger.

June 2, 2024
EV charging stations at Port City Fuel Center in Port Wentworth, Ga.

Hybrids vs EVs: What Americans are picking and why

Hybrids offer some of the benefits of electric vehicles — lower fuel costs, less pollution — but don’t trigger Americans’ anxieties about charging.

May 27, 2024
Jeep Wrangler 4Xe plug-in hybrids on a sales lot in Richmond, Calif. U.S. car companies are shifting focus from electric vehicles to hybrids as sales of gas-electric hybrid vehicles are surging past sales of electric vehicles.

Why you should rethink how you shave

Americans throw out billions of disposable razors and blade cartridges a year. There’s a better way to shave that doesn’t create tons of plastic waste.

May 19, 2024
Razors at Giant Food in Bowie, Md., in May 2023.

Bar soap or body wash: Which is best for your skin and the planet?

Depending on its ingredients and packaging, your soap could cut as much as a third of the carbon emissions from your next shower.

May 16, 2024
True soaps are made from animal fat or plant oil and an alkali material such as lye.

The world’s largest carbon-capture plant just switched on

Experts say we’ll need carbon capture to offset stubborn emissions that can’t easily be cut with existing green technology.

May 9, 2024
A Swiss start-up unveiled its second plant sucking carbon dioxide from the air and stocking it underground, scaling up its capacity tenfold with the aim of eliminating millions of tons of CO2 by 2030. Dubbed Mammoth, the plant, in Hellisheidi, Iceland, lies just a few hundred yards from its little sister Orca, a pioneering facility that Climeworks opened in September 2021 in the middle of a moss-covered lava field about a half-hour drive from the capital Reykjavik. (Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty)

You can now get a $7,500 upfront discount for buying an EV

Car buyers can now claim the $7,500 EV tax credit as an upfront discount.

April 27, 2024
2023 Volkswagen electric ID. 4 sports-utility vehicles are lined up at a Denver dealership on March 17.

These 150-foot-high sails could help solve shipping’s climate problem

Ships burn some of the dirtiest fuels and generate 3 percent of global emissions. Mechanical sails could help solve their environmental problem.

April 22, 2024
The WindWings sails by BAR Technologies look and work a lot like airplane wings.

If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable

New Google Maps features address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge.

April 17, 2024
A truck drives by an electric vehicle charging station last month in London, Ohio.

The Olympics are usually a sustainability disaster. Can Paris be different?

Organizers of the Games have set a goal of generating no more than half the planet-warming emissions produced by other recent Summer Olympics.

April 11, 2024
Workers build stands for the upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris, on the Champ-de-Mars just beside the Eiffel Tower on April 1.

Don’t trash those eclipse glasses. Do this instead.

Eclipse glasses don’t expire, so you don’t have to throw them away. Here are easy ways to recycle, reuse or donate them.

April 9, 2024
Ticketholders gather eclipse glasses as they enter Saluki Stadium at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill., on Monday. Carbondale was on the center-line of the path of totality again. The totality of this year’s eclipse was expected to last 4 minutes and 9 seconds, nearly double what was seen in 2017 when the same area experienced a total solar eclipse. (Jessica Koscielniak/The Washington Post)