Latest Energy Stories
Even with international protections, the Galápagos Islands are becoming more vulnerable to humans
Latin American environmentalists face unprecedented violence in defending their land
Natural gas extraction is booming—and so are harmful methane leaks
Keystone Pipeline spills 383,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota wetlands
Switching to renewable energy is actually cost-effective
Three ways environmentally conscious countries can conquer the fossil fuel industry
How microgrids could protect California from blackouts during fire season
You can expect more blackouts as the country heats up
California’s massive power outages is a wake-up call for the whole country
Does Hyundai’s rooftop solar panel change the fuel-economy equation?
Everything you need to know about uranium
New York is passing its own Green New Deal
How a foreign country hacks a power grid
Snow might be the next clean energy source
Plastics are hurting the planet in another unexpected way
Freight trains are our future
Thomas Midgley, Jr. may have been the most environmentally disastrous person of all time
Carbon capture could keep global warming in check—here’s how it works
Meet the experts trying to keep nuclear material out of the wrong hands
Game of Thrones isn’t a fantasy, it’s a warning
Flying cars will only be eco-friendly if we use them right
Wind turbines do not cause cancer
Coal ash, earthquakes, and other hazards posed by fossil fuels
The Green New Deal is more feasible than you think
Everything you need to know about the Green New Deal
Canadians found a safer way to transport oil and, yes, it looks like a hockey puck
Ocean warming is making waves stronger—and that’s a problem
Tree resin could replace fossil fuels in everything from printer ink to shoe polish
Air pollution is choking solar energy around the world
Your future smartphone could fix its broken screen by pulling carbon from the air
Scientists want to put ‘speed bumps’ in hurricane alley to slow down storms
Ethanol is renewable, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for us
This machine could turn your power walking into usable energy
The government just made it easier for oil companies to leak methane on public land
California is set to go carbon-free by 2045
Adding clean energy to the Sahara could make it rain (and not just figuratively)
New fracking wells are using many times more water than their predecessors
This bacteria could boost solar panels on cloudy days
Russia floats new nuclear power station—and new risks
What it really takes to power your home for a day
Why don’t we put power lines underground?
What is a horsepower?
Future offshore drilling could wreak havoc on deep sea ecosystems
If we’re going to capture our carbon emissions, we might as well put them to use
With wind farms, bias is in the eye of the beholder
This 18-mile stretch of Georgia highway is a living laboratory for clean energy
We consume a lot of food and beer on Super Bowl Sunday, but not a lot of electricity
In photos: updating New York’s vast and fragile telecom backbone
Nuclear reactors the size of wastebaskets could power our Martian settlements
Hackers are attacking the electric grid
Inside the country’s biggest nuclear power plant tear-down
Scientists are making carbon fiber from plants instead of petroleum
Can we actually stop using fossil fuels?
Why can’t we decide what to do about nuclear energy?
This is the most powerful moment in Olympic sport
This is how a molten salt nuclear reactor works
Greek yogurt creates a ton of wheyst—but wheyt! There may be a whey forward for all that whey.
Tesla actually built the world’s biggest battery. Here’s how it works.
The Keystone pipeline just spilled another 210,000 gallons of oil
E=mc² became famous for all the wrong reasons
Scientists use light to purge defects from solar cells
This yarn makes its own electricity
Almost every country in the world can power itself with renewable energy
This paper battery is powered by bacteria in your spit