Energy

Carbon intensity fell 2.7 percent last year but a decline of 6.3 percent a year needed for climate goal

Mr. Fusion aside, this 1989 time-traveling comedy was spot-on about many devices that we now take for granted

Onshore wind power is “fully competitive” with gas and coal in some markets with solar not far behind, according to a report released today by Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Long-sought method could turn superthin material into usuable computer components

Though constitutionally outlawed, atomic energy is ripe for development in the central European country

On Sunday, Paris held une journée sans voiture—a day without car—closing down approximately 25 percent of the city center to vehicle traffic and reducing speed limits to 20 kilometers per hour in the surrounding areas

Royal Dutch Shell has abandoned its Arctic search for oil after failing to find enough crude in a move that will appease environmental campaigners and shareholders who said its project was too expensive and risky.

In the heart of U.S. oil country several dioceses and other Catholic institutions are leasing out drilling rights to oil and gas companies to bolster their finances

At the Alamo Beer Company’s new brewery and biergarten lies a Texas-size work of solar art. The Alamo-shaped solar array is located just a five-minute drive (or 15- to 20-minute walk) from the fort itself and around the corner from San Antonio’s new Pearl neighborhood development. In turn, the array can be seen from numerous downtown buildings, including the Tower of the Americas

Nothing but fear and capital stand in the way of a nuclear-powered future

Sluggish production of nuclear fuel could make solar power the preferred choice for the agency’s outer-planets missions

The Great Recession enabled bold steps to seed a clean-energy revolution