The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would shift $1.3 billion a year in oil and gas royalties to state wildlife conservation measures.

Fantasies about new power sources for human ambitions go back a century or more. Could these past visions energise our own future? By Iwan Rhys Morus.

The turbines withstood some serious gusts.

Evo Morales’s new allies are political alliances, and they lack the revolutionary fervor of his old ones. By Jessica Camille Aguirre.

High-speed drilling and tunneling machines could revolutionize geothermal energy and enable Hyperloop trains

Frontal view of the Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport

Seawater is a complex cocktail of useful minerals, but it’s hard to separate the ones we need. Now a team of scientists from Australia and the US has developed a new water desalination technique that can not only make seawater fresh enough to drink, but recover lithium ions for use in batteries.

The fossil fuel era won't last forever. And a new set of countries will find their reserves of lithium, copper and rare earth metals are in high demand. By Andrew Barron.

The push to provide nuclear power to Saudi Arabia has divided U.S. policymakers. By Steven Mufson.

Current EV batteries could be charged much quicker, researchers say.

Renault aims to prove you can live without fossil fuels with its "smart island" experiment.

A rechargeable battery that works at –70° C could be used in some of the coldest places on Earth or other planets.

Eastern Washington had cheap power and tons of space. Then the suitcases of cash started arriving. By Paul Roberts.

Congressional Republicans allowed a tax on oil companies that generated hundreds of millions of dollars annually for federal oil-spill response efforts to expire this week — a move that amounts to another corporate break in the wake of lawmakers’ sweeping tax overhaul late last month.

The law that requires America to turn some of its soybeans into diesel fuel for trucks has created a new industry. But it's costing American consumers about $5 billion each year.

Following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami of 2011, selfless Japanese workers battled nuclear-reactor meltdown, and thousands of US troops provided disaster relief. Today, many are counting the cost to their mental and physical health. By Rob Gilhooly.

Researchers from the University of Washington have devised a new way to charge a smartphone from across the room using lasers.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is the latest to be caught short.

Russia's Energy Ministry said on Saturday that gas giant Gazprom's intention to terminate contracts with Ukraine poses no immediate threat to natural gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine.

A filmmaker travels the U.S. and Canada to speak with Indigenous women about the constant threats to their safety and their lives. By Riayn Fergin.

When a drilling platform is scheduled for destruction, it must go on a thousand-mile final journey to the breaker’s yard. As one rig proved when it crashed on to the rocks of a remote Scottish island, this is always a risky business. By Tom Lamont.

It's named after a Nordic god and drills deep into the heart of a volcano

Two billion years ago parts of an African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission. The details of this remarkable phenomenon are just now becoming clear. By Alex P. Meshik on (Jan. 26, 2009)

Scientists warn that hydroelectric dams in the Amazon could have a significant impact on the environment. By Rebecca Morelle.

The Science Team of the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has cancelled the first leg of the 2017 Expedition due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice, caused by climate change.

The long range of airborne drones helps them perform critical tasks in the skies. Now MIT spinout Open Water Power (OWP) aims to greatly improve the range of unpiloted underwater vehicles (UUVs), helping them better perform in a range of applications under the sea. By Rob Matheson.

In a windsurfers’ paradise, turbines capture gusts that pick up at exactly the right time - or the wrong time, if you're trying to sell natural gas.

A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining. By Eliza Griswold.

Anxiety over “wind-turbine syndrome” stems from a decades-old misunderstanding of inaudible noise. By Philip Jaekl. (June 19, 2017)

Imagine a lamp, any lamp. Now imagine having to water it. Dutch product designer Ermi van Oers created Living Light: plants that double as lights. Or lights that double as plants – whichever way you prefer looking at it. The lighst run on electricity generated by bacteria in the soil.

Donald Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department’s budget is now on the chopping block. But does anyone in the White House really understand what the Department of Energy actually does? And what a horrible risk it would be to ignore its extraordinary, life-or-death responsibilities? By Michael Lewis.

The road to cleaner, meltdown-proof nuclear power has taken a big step forward.

or a glimpse into the future of coal power in Australia, go west. The country’s last major investment in coal-fired electricity was in Western Australia in 2009, when Colin Barnett’s state government announced a major refurbishment of the Muja AB station about 200km south of Perth, far from the gaze of the east coast political-media class.

The U.S. Energy Department on Thursday released 1 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and a White House adviser said more could flow after Tropical Storm Harvey inundated Gulf Coast refineries and drove up motor fuel prices.

In this brief, entitled “The Energy Sector Hacker Report: Profiling the Hacker Groups that Threaten our Nation’s Energy Sector” the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology offers a detailed analysis of the expanding threat landscape within the energy sector as well as profiles on the most prominent actors targeting our Nation’s energy grid. Specifically, the report discusses: