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Geo-engineering (the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the environment to combat anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry) has long been touted as a way to counteract the catastrophic effects of global warming,...

The COP17 Durban Climate Change Conference ended with the failure to institute a binding emissions agreement, so it seems that the world’s efforts to avoid the effects of climate change are at a crossroads...

While companies around the world (but mainly in Japan) have made massive leaps in robotics over the past few years, there has always been something unnatural about the way they walk...

As Japan’s recent Fukushima disaster and the boycott of nuclear power in Germany has shown, nuclear energy is a controversial and potentially dangerous energy source...

There are a lot of famous Star Trek fans out there — Olivia Wilde, Mila Kunis and yours truly — but none of us are as rich as King Abdullah of Jordan...

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It seems that the title of World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm is a fleeting thing – at the moment it is held by Thanet Wind Farm in the North Sea, but soon it could belong to Bohai Bay in China...

The US Department of Energy has approved the partial guarantee for a $1.3 billion loan to support the construction of the world’s largest wind farm, located in eastern Oregon. Known as the Caithness Energy LLC’s...

One of the problems with electrical vehicles is having to charge them, especially since there just aren’t many charging stations readily available yet...

Shweeb is an innovative form of alternative transportation that places people in plastic tubes so that they can cycle to their destination whilst hung upside down from a rail...

The concept of a plug-free electric-car is not a new idea, and with the rise in popularity of green automobiles, it comes as no surprise that a number of companies are investing big bucks in self-powered vehicles...

Reminiscent of James Bond’s fold-away Acrostar mini-plane, the Cri-Cri is the world’s smallest electric plane and this week made its official maiden flight at Le Bourget airport near Paris. Jointly developed...

Out of all the sports in the world, NASCAR is the one that involves pushing fossil-fuel powered vehicles to their limits over and over again — but recently the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing announced...

It’s generally agreed the world over that transportation is the largest contributor to global warming. As such, governments have begun heavily investing in high-speed rail projects and other transport schemes in order...

Firefighters at New York’s Bellevue Fire District No. 9 station are looking forward to a bright future in solar energy as they recently unveiled a large photovoltaic installation. Funded by the New York State Energy...