Modified natural materials will be an essential component of a sustainable future, but first a detailed understanding of their properties is needed.

Eight years after an earthquake and tsunami transformed Fukushima into the site of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters, plans are underway to turn the Japanese prefecture into a hub of renewable energy.

Just 13 out of the largest 132 coal, electricity, and oil and gas companies have made commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, research published today has revealed (PDF).

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have taken a giant stride towards solving a riddle that would provide the world with entirely renewable, clean energy from which water would be the only waste product.

University of Oklahoma Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy assistant professor Xiaowei Chen and a group of geoscientists from Arizona State University and the University of California, Berkeley, have created a model to forecast induced earthquake activity from the disposal of wastewater after oil and gas production.

How do you store renewable energy so it’s there when you need it, even when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing? 

Satellite technology helps scientists locate methane sources.

IIASA researchers explored optimal pathways for managing groundwater and hydropower trade-offs for different water availability conditions as solar and wind energy start to play a more prominent role in the state of California.

Researchers from UCLA, Oxford and other institutions analyze 10 different industrial applications for greenhouse gas emissions.

New technique unexpectedly finds that black carbon in rivers and oceans differs significantly.