Sustain Our Earth

Insurance industry criticised for blocking recovery of highly potent greenhouse gases.

After a record cold spring, all-time high temperature records were broken in Alaska during the past few days as a "heat dome" took control.

The southern half of the U.S. has been rapidly depleting its groundwater over the last decade, according to new scientific research

The Obama administration is making a second attempt to systematically account for the dollar damage from greenhouse gas pollution, even with no consensus on how to forestall global warming or whether to do so.

How can our cities function like healthy ecosystems?

Solar Decathlon Team Las Vegas designed DesertSol - a super resilient solar-powered home in the Mojave Desert

The failure of the mainstream media to note that it is the growth in oil consumption that fell, and not actual oil consumption -- leaves many with a false impression that perhaps the world is beginning to wean itself off of oil, notes Robert Rapier.

The top electric car city in the US... San Francisco? LA? New York? Portland? What do you think?

The Mapdwell Project is a collaborative effort by researchers, academics, and professionals at MIT to develop a community resource of research-driven and tested information on sustainable practices.

Brown kelp macroalgae — the strange, foul-smelling seaweed so often found washed up on the Pacific Northwest’s volcanic sand beaches — could ultimately offer an almost unlimited global supply of commercial-quality ethanol or biomethane.

International Finance Corporation has released a new report called “Success of Geothermal Wells: A global study” with data taken from both public and private sources.

When it comes to honey bees, more mates is better. A new study from North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland and the U.S.

If you want to understand the massive gulf between Democrats and Republicans on climate change, look no further than the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Australia's rush to acquire airconditioners and fridges is creating a greenhouse gas time bomb, which the Greens and environmental groups say existing regulations, including the carbon tax, are ill equipped to defuse.

Invests in mitigation as Asian cities, African farmland are seen at risk over the next 10 to 20 years.

Electric vehicles like the Nissan Leaf and Honda Fit EV used to languish on dealership lots for months. A pricing war with aggressive incentives and cheap lease deals has changed all that.

What if you could grow and sell food in the same place? That is the radical idea behind Ben Greene's The Farmery project. Can this revolutionize our current food transportation system?

There is substantial opportunity to incorporate next-generation nuclear energy — through either large, advanced reactors or emerging SMR designs or both — more significantly into a productive strategy for reducing carbon emissions in the long and...

Nearly all the money has been spent, and the California Solar Initiative is winding down. The direct CSI subsidy for installing PV panels on your house, which started at $2.50 per watt is now just $0.20 per watt.

The Kudankulam nuclear power plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has finally begun operations following a landmark Supreme Court of India ruling approving the project.

The cost of photovoltaic solar panels is expected to drop another 36 cents per watt by 2017, according to new research by cleantech market research firm GTM Research.

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By 2020, swapping aging wind turbines with more powerful modern units will have raised annual electricity generation at refurbished sites from 1524 GWh to 8221 GWh.

Warsaw (AFP) June 18, 2013 - Poland could delay building its first nuclear power plants as natural gas, including shale gas, becomes less costly, the prime minister of the central European heavyweight said Tuesday.