
Cooler Buildings Save Energy
How can a new office building cut energy costs and stay chic?

Cooler Buildings Save Energy
How can a new office building cut energy costs and stay chic?

How to Prevent More Deaths When the Earth Quakes
The solutions are simple but not easy to adopt, as the Nepal example shows


Turning to Bacteria to Fight the Effects of Climate Change
Recently the United Nations warned that the world could suffer a 40 percent shortfall in water by 2030 unless countries dramatically cut consumption.

A Nation Divided On Keystone XL
The new results from the nationally representative UT Energy Poll are out today, highlighting the way so many energy issues have become politicized.

For Its 40th Birthday, Let's Retire Newsweek's Global Cooling Story
Last month, Senator Ted Cruz matter-of-factly told an interviewer that he just happened to glance at a four-decade-old article from Newsweek that very morning.

EIA Updates “Top 100 U.S. Oil and Gas Fields” Rankings
Both crude oil and natural gas reserves in the United States increased in 2013, according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

What to Wear to Swim in America's Most Polluted Waters [Video]
A swim with sewage aims to call attention to cleaning the Gowanus Canal, and other polluted waters in the U.S.

Can the U.S. Go All-Electric?
New homes wired with the latest smart gadgets cluster together around shared park spaces. Blue-black panels that transform sunshine into electricity grace a majority of roofs.

What about Earth’s Microbiome?
The latest temperature readings from Antarctica are giving the world pause, along with the finding that 70 percent of the western Antarctic ice shelf has melted.

Can Small Solar Deliver Cheap Light?
Entrepreneurs aim to bring electricity to the world's energy poor without fossil fuels

Foods On The High End: Exploring Haute Cuisine Cannabis
Inside and outside the kitchen, chefs have been known to get into the weeds–but the majority of culinary cannabis creations have been mainly limited to a few cakes, cookies, and of course, the archetypal pot brownie.

Indian Railways and Military Go Solar
There's been no shortage recently of big companies going big on solar, nor of middlemen trying to pave the way for bulk buying of solar power, but when the beast that is national procurement gets involved, the ante is upped.