Alternative Energy Technology

The Environmental Protection Agency will propose, later on Friday, a new federal target for U.S. biofuel use in 2014, attempting to prevent a projected fuel-blending crunch next year.

Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

Of the more than 150,000 car fires in the U.S. this year, one got all the attention

The Montreal Protocol aimed to fix the ozone hole but it also delayed global warming. David Biello reports

From funding the enemy to driving instability via climate change, fossil fuels are a problem for the military

Unique turbines that float on the surface rather than rest on the seafloor can be placed in deeper waters

A billion-dollar scheme to reduce household emissions in the Czech Republic costs five times as much per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) as some European industries need to spend to achieve the same cuts, government data showed.

By Alister Doyle and Nina Chestney OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) - World governments are likely to recoil from plans for an ambitious 2015 climate change deal at talks next week, concern over economic growth at least partially eclipsing scientists' warnings of rising temperatures and water levels.

Can helium improve the capacity and efficiency of hard drives?

(Release at 2301 GMT, Sunday Nov 3) Simple measures to reduce pollution from cooking stoves in developing nations could save a million lives a year and help slow global warming, a World Bank study showed on Monday.

What if we could tap vast deposits of methane-rich brine deep beneath the ocean and use the energy to cut carbon emissions?

Opposition complicates the White House plan to move toward clean energy