Alternative Energy Technology

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 physics prize for the invention of the blue light–emitting diode

On October 2, the Boundary Dam power plant in Saskatchewan became the first full-sized coal-fired boiler to capture the copious carbon dioxide that had previously billowed from its smokestack, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere.

Can economic incentives evolve to combat climate change?

Historian of science Naomi Oreskes, now at Harvard, first came to my attention 20 years ago, when she and two co-authors argued in Science that “verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible.” In The End of Science, I cited the Oreskes et al.

A more heat- and alcohol-tolerant yeast could transform fermentation and biofuels

The U.S. is on track to become the world’s leading liquid petroleum producer. According to IEA, domestic production of oil was about 11.5m barrels a day in August, and the Financial Times reports that we are likely to surpass Saudi Arabia’s production for the first time in 23 years.

At the U.N. summit last week, climate economists tackled the role of innovation in fixing the world’s climate

Half of Japan's electric utilities have blocked additional solar for fear of destabilizing the grid

Smog and soot top the list, even though there are remedies for both

Carbon dioxide that escapes from storage underneath the seafloor is not likely to harm the environment, based on a recent experiment

The new concrete would contribute less to global warming and be stronger

The peak of the season in Tornado Alley in the U.S. has shifted seven days earlier in the past six decades