ROWE — The nuclear plant deep in the woods of this Western Massachusetts town stopped producing power 27 years ago when George H.W. Bush was still president. It was dismantled, piece by piece. Buried…
NASA found a giant underground cavern two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall – growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica –one of several…
The past week has seen some brutal weather hitting the US and Canada. With cold Arctic air plunging south down to the US midwest, six states have seen temperatures lower than the south pole and at…
Let’s get one thing straight: Weather is not climate.
Look, I get it. It’s easy to conflate the two. After all, climate is the average of all the weather recorded over a period of time. But it’s …
BRUSSELS — Tens of thousands of children skipped school in Belgium on Thursday to join demonstrations for action against climate change, part of a broader environmental protest movement across Europe…
What will the U.S. grid mix look like in 2050? It depends on which models you follow.
The future according to the Energy Information Administration's latest report: Wind will stop growing, coal will…
January was Australia’s hottest month on record, with the country’s mean temperature exceeding 30C for the first time since records began in 1910.
The Bureau of Meteorology released its climate…
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk says the Tesla big battery in South Australia has been so successful it will likely pay for itself within a few years, and has prompted interest from other governments…
New wind, solar and biomass power generation displaced hard coal last year – especially in Germany, France and the UK – according to a 2018 review of European electricity statistics by two leading…
Many people believe that the reason why there’s spring, summer, autumn, and winter is due to our planet’s proximity to the sun. According to this intuitive (but flawed) line of reasoning, Earth is…
Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan, Kyushu Electric Power and Tokyo Gas said on Thursday they have given up their plan to build a 2 gigawatt (GW) coal-fired power station in Chiba, near Tokyo, as it would not be…
Signed PPAs hit new heights in 2018 in cutthroat power market, says American Wind Energy Association.
US wind developers built 7.6GW of new capacity in 2018 as the industry gears up for the boom…
A new study by the University of Exeter has found microplastics in all marine animals washed up on British shores.
The team, including researchers from Plymouth Marine Laboratory, examined 50…
According to a new report from Agora Energiewende and Sandbag, the EU solar market grew around 60%, or 10 GW, last year. The analysis also predicts that total solar demand across all EU PV markets…
Climate change is revealing Arctic landscapes that haven't been seen in over 40,000 years.
Arctic temperatures are increasing faster than the Northern Hemisphere average due to strong positive…
Waitrose and Partners have launched a £1 million fund which will be used to target plastic pollution.
The initiative is aimed at awarding money to projects that can demonstrate an impact on plastic…
Rome — An investor group managing some $6.5 trillion on Tuesday called on six of the world's largest fast food restaurants, including McDonald's, KFC and Burger King, to reduce their planet-harming…
New York — Food shocks, or sudden losses of crops, livestock or fish, due to the combination of extreme weather conditions and geopolitical events like war, increased from 1961 to 2013, said…