Congress should require the share of electricity from low-polluting technologies to increase steadily over time. By Justin Gillis, Jameson McBride.

Federal authorities halted work on the massive Mountain Valley Pipeline this month after an appeals court ruled that federal agencies neglected to follow environmental protections. By Kate Mishkin, Beena Raghavendran, Ken Ward Jr.

Lithium-ion batteries power everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars and e-cigarettes. But, with lithium close to breaking point, researchers are scrambling for the next battery breakthrough

For the past 12 years, a Calgary-based company has been planning to pump water from the river to an underground site 12 kilometres away, where it will be used to flush out salt deposits, creating huge caverns that will eventually store natural gas. By Michael MacDonald.

Fossil fuel proponents may claim that even renewables or “clean energy” have harmful impacts on the environment to justify continued drilling and mining — but that’s not the whole truth. Here’s the reality — all forms of energy production, and really any form of human development, can have impacts. But renewables like wind and solar are called clean for a reason. Their impacts are many times smaller than those of other energy sources. Scott Tinker’s recent commentary in The Hill arguing the environment damage renewable cause contains outdated and incorrect information about renewable energy.

The firm says tests at Japanese factories had "deviated from the prescribed testing environment".

A country getting all its electricity from a combination of wind, solar and hydro sounds like science fiction. It's not.

Despite tariffs that President Trump imposed on imported panels, the U.S. installed more solar energy than any other source of electricity in the first quarter.

Latest study suggests that emissions of the potent greenhouse gas could be coming from faulty equipment.

That’s profoundly concerning for climate change.

Operatives are installing malware that could give them remote control of parts of the country's power network.

More than six years after a tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan has yet to reach consensus on what to do with a million tons of radioactive water, stored on site in around 900 large and densely packed tanks that could spill should another major earthquake or tsunami strike.

One of the nation’s most significant cultural sites could be at risk from planned oil and gas extraction nearby. By Richard Moe.

Bitcoin has been viewed as a liberating path out of the corporate monetary system. But the process of 'mining' the cryptocurrency is a massive energy drain - and potential environmental disaster.

Critics have argued renewable energies could come with high hidden greenhouse gas emissions that would negate their benefits to the climate. A new study shows the opposite is true.

A laser-driven technique for creating fusion that dispenses with the need for radioactive fuel elements and leaves no toxic radioactive waste is now within reach, say researchers.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Frontal view of the Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport

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 global wind turbine industry has transformed from a collection of small companies in Denmark to corporations pulling off enormous feats of engineering.