Sustain Our Earth

The Ogallala Aquifer suffered its second-worst drop since at least 2000 in a 16-county swath of the Texas Panhandle, new measurements show. With the drought showing little sign of abating, farmers face another tough year.

Consumers do end up using more energy when energy-using technology gets more efficient, but these rebound effects are minimal, experts say

Ever wondered what the impact of electric vehicle is so far? Well, wait no longer. An infograph recently released from vroomvroomvroom.ca shows some interesting numbers.

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Engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications.

Renewable energy consultancy Natural Power has published the results of a post-consent ecological study, called the Marine Environment Monitoring Programme (MEMP), that monitored marine life on a UK offshore wind farm.

an interview with Mark Thoma, a macroeconomist whose research focuses on how monetary policy affects the economy

Sydney (UPI) May 21, 2013 -
If resource-rich developing countries can avoid the resource curse, they could reduce dependency on aid, an Australian government official said.

Moore, Oklahoma (AFP) May 21, 2013 - Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people.

The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time.

Renewable fuel standards are distorting the market for ethanol and other biofuels, panelists said at a conference on refining.

Ny plan til tre-fire milliarder kroner: København og Frederiksberg skal have flere små kanaler, vandbassiner og træer for at undgå oversvømmelser ved skybrud.

Trying to make sense of the Moore tornado, here are some of the things we know and don't know about tornadoes, and the role of climate change.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is rapidly losing its coral, to the point that UNESCO may soon place the natural wonder on its "in danger" list. Climate change is one culprit, but so is the country's booming extraction industry.

The GreenTouch consortium outlines energy efficiency measures that could reduce the net energy consumption of global data and communications networks up to 90 percent by 2020, compared to 2010 levels.

Wind only sets the market price if it is the most expensive resource on the system, and that almost never happens because wind has a zero fuel cost. If wind is setting the price, everything else in the area has been turned off.

Net zero energy = awesome. And homes or buildings that use no energy from other locations (net, not gross) are certainly a growing trend.

Washington (AFP) May 21, 2013 - Apple chief Tim Cook faced a grilling Tuesday by US lawmakers on sham subsidiaries and convoluted strategies to shift profits offshore, but denied the company uses gimmicks to cut taxes.

Tokyo (AFP) May 22, 2013 - Japan's nuclear watchdog said Wednesday that one reactor was sitting directly above an active tectonic fault, effectively ruling out a restart forever.

Geneva (AFP) May 21, 2013 - The world is unprepared for a massive virus outbreak, the deputy chief of the World Health Organization warned Tuesday, amid fears that H7N9 bird flu striking China could morph into a form that spreads easily among...