A new thermoelectric generator could bring light to one billion people who live without power...if market forces will let it.

Calcium could replace lithium in batteries that store solar and wind power.

Lithium is being mined in Chile to make batteries, but at what cost to the local environment?

Our planet Earth has an abundance of fuels such as coal, petroleum, which sadly is diminishing at an alarming rate .

A research team from India's IIT (Institute of Technology) Madras has officially developed the world's first iron-ion battery.

A startup that spun out of Cambridge University claims a battery breakthrough that can charge an electric car in just six minutes. It’s something we heard before, but the difference here is that they claim that they can commercialize the new battery as soon as next year.

A new report released by the U.S. Department of Energy projects installed battery storage capacity to reach 2.5 GW by 2023. Florida and New York are set to pave the way, as massive projects in each of those states will account for nearly half of the coming capacity.

Europe is home to some of the world's most ambitious and innovative wind energy projects.

Sierra Energy’s new blast furnace, which heats trash to 4,000 degrees and then harvests the gas to make plastics and fuel, was just funded by the Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

Researchers at Uppsala University have successfully created the world's first paper battery.

After California passed first-of-its kind legislation mandating solar panels on all homes built starting in 2020, a new poll finds that people across the country want to see that policy go national.

More than 40 percent of the world's coal plants are operating at a loss due...

Reuters investigates how a U.S. ‘clean coal’ program that costs taxpayers a billion dollars annually regularly fails to deliver on its environmental promises.

BP's investment in next-generation technology just paid off to the tune of a billion barrels of oil. The British energy company has discovered 1 billion barrels of crude at an existing oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico. BP also announced two new offshore oil discoveries and a major new investment in a nearby field. BP is the Gulf of Mexico's biggest producer, and it's making strides to hold that title.

The prospect of permanent daylight saving time in the U.S brightened after President Trump extended support to the move by some lawmakers. But the pitch of energy savings tagged to it is looking doubtful.

Magnets made of rare-earth metals like neodymium are commonly used in the generators found in offshore wind turbines. Turbines with neodymium magnets generally need less maintenance than those without them—an advantage when your turbine is a few miles out from land. But neodymium is costly, it almost all comes from China (which has restricted export in the past to drive prices up), and the environmental impact of extracting it from the Earth is not super.

The absence of the tiniest creature can shape the world in the biggest way. By Robert Krulwich.

A research team at Princeton University has harnessed sunlight to isolate hydrogen from industrial wastewater. By Molly A. Seltzer.

It is a cliché that the United States and Britain are obsessed with Middle East oil, but the reason for the obsession is often misdiagnosed. By Tom Stevenson.

Some 18 million barrels of oil transit through every day. The economic impact would be catastrophic. By Scott Ritter.