To slow climate change, India joins the renewable energy revolution.

On June 3, two days after President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Indian Prime Minister Narendra...

Virginia Tech team’s software fills important niche in building efficiency.

Software developed by a Virginia Tech team that can cut energy use by small and medium-sized commercial buildings is gaining traction in the private...

California’s Delta poised to become massive carbon bank.

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US bucks trend amid increases for clean energy research.

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India’s answer to Trump on climate is nuclear power.

Business has been slow at a Larsen & Toubro Ltd. factory in western India that makes parts for nuclear power plants. The Mumbai-based construction...

UK may get subsidy-free power from offshore wind farms.

Britain may soon join Germany in harvesting subsidy-free electricity from offshore wind farms, giving government ministers new options in securing power supplies that don’t...

Low-cost catalyst powers solar conversion of carbon dioxide to liquid fuels.

One way to reign in climate change is to capture carbon dioxide and convert it into liquid fuels. To do that, the gas has...

Tokyo nights may soon be lit up by a country 1,700 miles away.

The lights of the high-end boutiques and bars of Tokyo’s Ginza neighborhood may someday be powered by coal burned more than 1,700 miles away...

Business is leading the transition to renewables while politicians dither.

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Trump's pitch for making the Mexico border wall 'beautiful': Add solar panels.

Mexico The president’s ‘put a solar panel on it’ policy to fund the wall may be expensive, impossible to build – and it’s unclear what...

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