China's emissions of carbon dioxide fell last year for the first time in 13 years - a drop of 2 percent during a year when their GDP was still growing by 7.4%. This decoupling of economic growth from emissions is significant and should buoy clean energy efforts around the world.
Iran has halted its most disputed nuclear activity under a ground-breaking deal with six world powers, a confidential U.N. atomic agency report obtained by Reuters showed, paving the way for the easing of some Western sanctions against Tehran.
The Fernald Preserve was closed as a contaminated nuclear weapons plant in the 1990s, but now it is a place where birders and photographers and casual hikers roam among thick wildlife.
In Libya, the oil is once again flowing. Libya's oil industry is now back up to 90 percent of its pre-war production, earning the income that gives many Libyans confidence that, despite hardship, they do have a shot at a better future
In some African countries, a lack of reliable electricity is to blame for hundreds of deaths each year during childbirth. Dr. Laura Stachel witnessed this tragic truth during a trip to Nigeria five years ago and with the help of her husband, a solar energy educator, started delivering a solution: solar energy in a suitcase.
Aidan Dwyer is just 13 years old but is already a patented inventor of solar panel arrangements. He noticed a pattern one day in the tangled mess of branches above him and began to investigate whether there is a secret formula in tree design and whether the purpose of the spiral pattern is to collect sunlight better.
This plant will turn trash into coal replacement, reducing West Virginia CO2 emissions by 28,000 tons every year.
After reading an article in the local newspaper, Cassandra Lin of Westerly, Rhode Island discovered that many residents could not afford to heat their homes. Inspired to do something, she formed a team of five seventh graders to recycle waste cooking oil and turn it into biofuel for distribution to needy families. Started in 2008, TGIF (Turn Grease Into Fuel) works with local biofuel companies to recycle the grease from residents and restaurants, and refine it into biodiesel. The award-winning project has been collecting more than 36,000 gallons of waste cooking oil a year, bringing an estimated value of $60,000 of alternative energy that keeps 92 needy families warm in the winter.
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin is encouraging other agencies to follow the lead of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority that recently bought 53 hybrid buses and upgraded 10 trolleys to run on a hybrid system.
A Formula 1 race car builder has its designs on slashing supermarket energy usage, saving money and reducing carbon emissions.
Japan's abandoned and bankrupt golf courses are getting a second life as solar power stations.
Would you believe gas prices dropped down to 47 cents per gallon last night in Michigan? GasBuddy.com has the photo to prove it.
Increased Solar and wind energy use in Europe is causing greenhouse gas emissions to plummet by more than a billion tons of CO2 emissions per year.
An Egyptian high school student has discovered a new process that cheaply turns mountains of plastic trash into tens of millions of dollars in biofuel.
Pour a glass of water and two spoonfuls of salt into this lamp and it will burn all night and it can even charge your cellphone.
Electric car maker Tesla Motors has rolled out a new battery for homes and businesses that they say could end electric bills while creating a cleaner world.
Oil and mining companies have signed on to support a global agreement being worked out by almost 200 nations at the Climate Conference in Paris.
China is setting a world record by already reducing its CO2 emissions by an amount equal to what the entire United Kingdom produced in that same period.
The billionaire inventor of the energy drink is spending his fortune on the poor, and a pedal-powered generator to make free electricity.
The U.S. added more solar power capacity than natural gas in 2015, for a record 7.3 gigawatts of electric power.
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