With the war in Ukraine causing oil prices to soar, US President Joe Biden's administration is treading a fine line between staying true to its commitment to clean energy, while seeking to ramp up petroleum production.
Future tokamak fusion power reactors will generate heat beyond what current materials can withstand.
In the endless quest to pack more energy into batteries without increasing their weight or volume, one especially promising technology is the solid-state battery.
Despite fears that the energy price shock unleashed by Russia's war in Ukraine will put climate ambitions on the back burner, the transition to green fuels is more relevant than ever to reduce dependence on Russian hydrocarbons.
The Fukushima region affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster has invested heavily in renewable energy -- a sector Japan was slow to embrace, but now considers key to reaching carbon neutrality.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company has agreed to spend $118 million to upgrade petrochemical plants in Texas that allegedly violate air pollution laws, the US Justice Department said Wednesday.
Like the charged power suit worn by Black Panther of Marvel Comics, UCF researchers have advanced NASA technologies to develop a power suit for an electric car…
Solid-state batteries, currently used in small electronic devices like smart watches, have the potential to be safer and more powerful than lithium-ion batteries for things such as electric cars and storing energy from solar panels for later use.
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose by six percent in 2021 to a record 36.3 billion tonnes, their highest ever level, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, will sell off its stake in China's Li Ning over suspicions of forced labour use in the Xinjiang region, the fund's manager said.
Yemen's Huthi rebels have signed a UN agreement hoped to help stop a rusting oil tanker in the Red Sea becoming an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe, officials said Monday.
Researchers from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), belonging to the CMT-Motores Termicos research institute, are working on different national and…
Renewable energy that feeds into the main power grid could destabilise the system and potentially cause power failures according to a new study.
Bill Suan bought his family's cattle farm in the mountains of West Virginia a decade-and-a-half ago with little thought for the two gas wells drilled on the property -- but then they started leaking oil onto his fields and sickening his cows.
Australia's biggest carbon emitter AGL said Monday it had rejected an upped takeover bid from billionaire green activist Mike Cannon-Brookes, who wanted to shutter the energy firm's coal-fired power plants.
In the oilfields of southern Iraq, billions of cubic feet of gas literally go up in smoke, burnt off on flare stacks for want of the infrastructure to capture and process it.
