Wind farms don’t operate in isolation. As they grow larger and more powerful, the invisible wakes they cast — corridors of slowed, turbulent air stretching miles…
Inverted perovskite solar cells check nearly every box for next-generation solar power: low manufacturing costs, compatibility with large-scale production, and efficiency numbers in the lab that…
Millions of wind turbine blades are approaching the end of their useful lives with nowhere to go — too tough to break down, too large to…
As solar energy infrastructure expands across New York state, finding space for it is becoming increasingly complicated. On April 22, researchers from Cornell University, The Nature…
Off the coast of southern China, a structure taller than most skyscrapers now floats in waters too deep for any conventional wind turbine to stand. Its…
Animal cells run on food and oxygen — never sunlight. That’s always been one of the cleaner dividing lines in biology: plants and algae photosynthesize; animals…
Offshore wind, floating solar, and wave energy each have their limits alone. But combined on a single platform, they may perform substantially better — and cost…
China is racing to expand wind power as a cornerstone of its push toward carbon neutrality by 2060 — and that ambition runs directly into a…
Perovskite solar cells are riddled with impurities and structural flaws — exactly the kind of material that textbook physics says should struggle to convert sunlight into…
Heavy-duty trucks are a small fraction of what’s on the road — roughly 5% of all vehicles — yet they generate nearly a quarter of automotive…
Hundreds of turbines are going up off the US East Coast, part of a build-out that could eventually deliver gigawatts of offshore wind power to the…
Wind turbines are supposed to help slow climate change — but in the farm country of Brandenburg, Germany, they may be making it harder for bats…
India has committed to reaching 500 GW of non-fossil fuel capacity — but the land to build it is running out. Flat, grid-connected terrain is already…
Solar flares rank among the most violent events in our solar system — sudden eruptions that release enormous amounts of energy and superheat parts of the…
A hummingbird hovers in a breeze with an almost uncanny stillness — its wings bending and flexing dozens of times per second, constantly adjusting to shifts…
For millions of apartment dwellers across New York and the U.S., rooftop solar has never been an option. They rent. They live in multi-unit buildings. Their…
When haunting images of corroded metal barrels on the deep seafloor off Los Angeles surfaced in 2020, they captured the public’s attention — and raised an…
Miles beneath a small Bavarian town south of Munich, a Canadian startup spent years attempting something the energy industry had never pulled off at scale: a…
Deep in the Botswana savanna, about 20 kilometers from the small town of Letlhakane, the Karowe Diamond Mine has spent years pulling some of the world’s…
India’s solar project pipeline has crossed 200 GW for the first time — more capacity in active development than the country has ever had at once.…
Deep in Serbia’s Jadar Valley, exploration geologists pulled up a dull white crystal during routine drilling in 2004 — and it didn’t match anything in the…
Two island nations, thousands of miles apart, have just made a $12 billion bet on the wind blowing off Britain’s coastlines. Under a new Offshore Wind…
Every morning, grid operators must decide how much wind power to count on — hours before the turbines actually spin. The AI models they rely on…
Every time rain hits a rooftop and runs off, it carries something most people never think about: a faint electrical charge, born the moment water touches…
Africa holds some of the world’s most abundant renewable energy resources — yet across much of the continent, unreliable grids and surging industrial demand remain a…
Mountain ridges offer some of the strongest, most consistent wind in the world — and some of the most stubborn engineering headaches. Predicting how air actually…
A modified speargun, fired not at fish but into the ocean floor, is at the center of a new engineering approach to one of offshore wind…
America needs to triple its geothermal drilling workforce by 2050 — and a Massachusetts city just launched the country’s first training center. Geothermal networks are quietly…
Modern concrete lasts about 100 years. Roman concrete has lasted over 2,000. And the material we’ve built the modern world with is responsible for roughly 8%…
Across the American West and beyond, thousands of federal reservoirs sit quietly under open skies — their surfaces catching sunlight hour after hour, year after year.…
A battery that stores energy and pulls carbon dioxide out of the air sounds like a clean-energy fantasy. For years, lithium-CO₂ “breathing” batteries promised exactly that…
Every conversation you have, every passing car, every hum of a crowded room — that sound is energy, and almost all of it simply disappears. Scientists…
Across the United States, hundreds of hydropower plants have been generating electricity for decades — some for more than a century — quietly keeping lights on…
Beneath Canada’s ancient rock formations, scientists may have found something the energy world wasn’t expecting: a naturally occurring hydrogen resource so vast it could theoretically supply…
Every spring, heating systems switch off and the question of staying warm fades from daily life. The warmth that carried us through winter simply seems to…
A North Sea oil well was supposed to produce for 20 to 30 years. It ran dry in two. Engineers had the seismic maps. The data…
Every day, without effort, plants do something chemists have spent decades trying to copy: they catch sunlight and lock its energy into chemical bonds. Replicating that…
On a sun-baked rooftop in midsummer, keeping the building below cool can consume staggering amounts of energy — a problem that grows harder to ignore as…
Something strange is happening just beneath the surface of America’s reservoirs. Thousands of dark panels now sit on the water, humming faintly with electricity. Nobody planned…
Somewhere between a beach sport and a billion-dollar engineering problem, a team of Australian researchers found an unlikely answer. Their tool of choice: a modified speargun.…
The equations guiding wind turbine and propeller design have been in use for more than a century. Engineers have long known they do not hold up…
It begins the way the best nature stories do, with a disappearance almost nobody noticed. A hundred and fifty years ago, the floor of the North…
Carnarvon Energy has contracted the Transocean Equinox semi-submersible rig for an exploration drilling campaign in Australia’s Bedout Sub-basin, with operations set to begin from April 2027.…
On June 1, a battery installation in California’s sun-scorched Kern County quietly rewrote what the American grid can do after dark. The Tumbleweed project became the…
Every day, cities around the world flush away a problem they can barely manage: sewage sludge. More than 100 million tonnes of it accumulate globally each…
U.S. total energy exports reached a record 31 quadrillion British thermal units in 2025, up 2% from the previous record set just a year earlier, according…
The U.S. EPA has proposed revising a 2014 Obama-era Federal Implementation Plan that would have forced the closure of PacifiCorp’s Dave Johnston Unit 3 coal-fired power…
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a metal alloy that does what materials science has long struggled to achieve: it stays ductile at…
Kathairos Solutions announced on June 1 that its liquid nitrogen pneumatic systems have cumulatively eliminated one million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent from oil and gas…
The Bureau of Land Management’s Vernal Field Office has approved an Environmental Assessment authorizing four drilling permits for Anschutz Exploration Corporation to develop gas wells on…
