Case study of weather triggering the 2017 crisis points to how atmospheric rivers are impacted by global warming

Renewable energy that feeds into the main power grid could destabilise the system and potentially cause power failures according to a new study.

Identifying a malfunction in the nation’s power grid can be like trying to find a needle in an enormous haystack. 

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, have previously shown that biological catalysts, or enzymes, can produce fuels cleanly using renewable energy sources, but at low efficiency.

The study highlights that the large-scale offshore wind farms can entail “serious environmental risks to the seafloors

In the mid-1990s, a few energy activists in Massachusetts had a vision: What if citizens had choice about the energy they consumed?

Look up over the white sand beaches of Mauritius and you may see a gigantic sail, much like the kind used by paragliders or kite surfers but the size of a three-bedroom apartment, looping figure-eights overhead.

In a new University of Michigan study, researchers set out to understand the air pollutant emissions impacts of electrifying motorcycle taxis in Kampala, Uganda.

The world’s second-largest ice sheet is melting from the bottom up – and generating huge amounts of heat from hydropower.

The Thar desert’s abundance of open space and sunshine make it an ideal place for solar power.