The Panama Papers’ tax haven list features exotic locales like the British Virgin Islands, the Seychelles – and the US state of Nevada. Experts aren’t surprised and say the US has become a top destination...
Stand in the surf and you feel it: the push of a wave, the rush of a current. Now, engineers are finding ways to turn that power into electricity. The European Marine Energy Center in...
Dark solar paneling covering the streets and harnessing the power of the sun to produce electricity – is this a vision for the future, or just science fiction? According to reports, French environment minister Segolene...
The nordic country saw more registrations of zero emission cars than any other nation in the world last year. Norway beats neighbor Sweden – and environmentally-minded Germany – by a wide margin. In 2015, almost...
In the global climate agreement on the verge of being concluded, nations are committing to limiting global warming to “well below” two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, “and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature...
In December, the first plant of a gigantic thermal solar power complex on the edge of the Sahara will go online. But this does not fulfill a former dream of exporting such power to Europe...
Even the most modern water treatment plants are unable to remove traces of organic compounds, like pharmaceuticals or pesticides. Now, a young chemist has found a way to do the job – with an electric...
Frank Richert was on a construction team for an offshore wind farm when he first came up with the idea. Looking at the colossus made of steel, the German engineer and inventor thought to himself:...
The solar market is gradually maturing in India, with installations seen across different states. Not only are western companies investing and expanding in India, the Indians are also trying to close the gap to achieve...
India’s eastern state of West Bengal has become a laggard in the installations of solar energy, despite being a pioneer in the solar energy manufacturing and installations. The state government owned WEBEL was one of...
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, has launched Tesla Energy’s Powerwall – a project he hopes will speed the world’s adoption of solar power by making reliable household energy storage battery packs widely affordable. Musk...
Jerome Michaud-Lariviere was sitting in a garden on a seemingly windless day when he first came up with his novel idea. For all the stillness around him, he noticed the leaves on the trees moving....