Keeping Up with the Joneses A Factor in Solar Installation
You might think that solar roof owners tended to be upper middle class liberals, but a study shows that that might not be the...
Canada Planning to Increase Hydro Power to 88.5 GW
Canada is preparing to increase its hydro-electric resource usage to 88.5 GW. The country's hydropower industry plans to allocate up to $70 billion on...
US Energy Secretary Announces Green Technology Partnership With China
It was about time the US and China collaborated on anything but pollution... the reduction of pollution. The scientific partnership announcement has been made by the US Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Wednesday, launching one of the largest collaborations of this kind in the world.
Volkswagen CEO Resigns After Emissions Scandal
The chief executive of one of the world's leading automakers, Volkswagen, has resigned after admitting to knowing about 11 million cars falsely passing emissions...
Coastal Seagrasses Store Two Times More Carbon Than Forests
Although they're easily ignored, seagrasses have been found to be one of the greatest carbon sinks on the planet. The study, published in Nature...
The Nuclear Era Will End Before 2030
A parliamentary group, called "The Greens" has released a report on Wednesday in which they underline the lack of nuclear development during the latest...
Dying Salton Sea Able to Generate Renewable Energy for 6.5 Million Households
The Salton Sea is dying out and this is no new phenomenon: for decades now, the sea is slowly but surely losing its salt levels, affecting the fauna in and around it. That makes the Salton Sea Authority face a pressing issue: that of finding ways to save it. So its members have been thinking about tapping into its clean energy resources to come up with the money.
Chinese Oil Company Cleaned Up 1,500 Metric Tons of Spilled Crude
Maybe this is not the typical alternative energy article we've gotten you used to, but it may look like BP could use some Chinese people in their fishing boats to clean up the spill.
MIT Finds How Carbon Dioxide Could Be Sunk Into the Ground Forever
Deep saline aquifers in the U.S. could be the solution for storing the CO2 outputted from coal power plants in the long run, thus...
China Continues to Pursue Its Nuclear Dream
When China announced recently that it plans to change its 2020 target for nuclear power the world dared to hope. But don't hold your breath: it hasn't announced how much they will change and whether it's for the long run!
