Alternative Energy Technology

Internal disarray could be the key to longer-lasting batteries that can unleash more energy

Can China find a fuel alternative for its swelling number of transportation vehicles?

Despite international agreement to craft an agreement that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the climate negotiations in Paris would just be another step in a long process

The temperature outside governs most people's response to climate change. David Biello reports

China will look into establishing a nation-wide trading system for pollution permits as part of efforts to use market mechanisms to help clean up its environment, the country's top environment official said.

Quinone could make flow-battery technology competitive with current storage methods

China pledged further support support for its ailing solar power industry on Saturday as the government seeks to revive a sector struggling with overcapacity and falling prices.

Small reactors in kit form are the latest idea aimed at reviving the fortunes of the nuclear power industry

It was a year when people were fed up with pipelines from Canada, fracking, coal trains and other environmental messes

David Biello looks back at the big environmental stories of the year covered on 60-Second Earth

China is struggling to meet its 2011-2015 targets to reduce pollution, cut greenhouse gas growth and introduce cleaner sources of energy, a report submitted to the country's parliament said on Wednesday.

Photovoltaics proved so successful in Hawaii that the local utility, HECO, has instituted policies to block further expansion