Energy

Trump's transition team asked for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society memberships of lab workers

Offshore wind is one of the nation’s largest untapped energy sources

See the high-voltage lab in Denmark exploring how to safeguard turbines from electrical surges

Electrochemical cells could suck carbon out of the atmosphere and turn it into electricity

There are many reasons to not let those Thanksgiving leftovers go to waste, including the energy savings

Scientists have created a technology capable of turning wet sewage into bio-crude - achieving in minutes something that takes Mother Nature millions of years - according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Despite the fact that wind energy is already one of the cheapest electricity resources available, experts in the wind industry anticipate larger turbines will drive costs down 24 percent by 2030

The incoming administration could quickly withdraw the U.S. from international climate change agreements, but domestic change is likely slower

How much electric energy storage would it take to run the average home for 24 hours? When will it be economical to locally store several days of electric energy for our homes? These two questions were explored earlier this month on the new “CrowdScience” podcast by the BBC World Service.

David Biello's new book is The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age.

The field, now called low-energy nuclear reactions, may have legit results—or be stubborn junk science

Hard-won reductions in the environmental toxin could be erased if Trump proceeds with plans to resuscitate the coal industry and abandon climate initiatives