Climate

In the central Israeli town of Kfar Sava, a team meets every few weeks at city hall to discuss a utopian-sounding project to recycle nearly all of the city’s garbage. In Eilat, 350 kilometers to the southeast, officials are...

Rays of sunlight try to break through darkening clouds over a wind farm near Waverly, Kan., on Nov. 28. (Chris Neal/Topeka Capital-Journal via Associated Press) A changing climate is beginning to change wind energy’s potential to provide power...

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, picked by former President Barack Obama to lead the international lender, will mark the two-year anniversary of the Paris climate change agreement next week by pledging to help countries meet the pact's obligations...

Iceland is cold. But it sits atop one of the world’s hottest underground regions, giving the country the ability to tap into a massive store of geothermal energy held by live volcanoes beneath Icelanders’ feet. Drill down only a...

In the next 50 years or so, we are going to run out of fossil fuels. This and the continued global warming due to climate change drive the transition to renewable sources to produce electricity. The energy industry has seen...

A new type of window developed by scientists works sort of like transitions lenses—the ones you can wear indoors or outdoors without scrambling between clear and tinted glasses in order to see—but the device generates electricity. And, it could help power...

Exclusive: Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance to this good news is doing real damage in the fight against global warming, reports Jonathan Marshall. With petrochemical billionaires Charles and...

Diplomats from 200 nations agreed Saturday to launch a process to meet in 2018 and review greenhouse gas emission standards as part of a long-term effort to cut down on carbon emissions worldwide, Reuters reports. The talks come despite President Trump's...

Coal emerged as the surprise winner from two weeks of international climate talks in Germany, with leaders of the host country and neighboring Poland joining Donald Trump in support of the dirtiest fossil fuel.While more than 20 nations, led...

All energy, all the time. Depending on the day I might be negotiating a renewable energy contract, conducting a financial analysis of a transmission line or substation project for one of our data centers, or working with our finance...