From a distance, the northern shores of Baffin Island in the Arctic appear barren — a craggy world of snow-capped peaks and glaciers surrounded by a sea of floating ice even in the midst of summer. Yet beneath the forbidding surface of the world's fifth-largest ...
U.S. diplomats should sidestep questions from foreign governments on what it will take for the Trump administration to re-engage in the global Paris climate agreement, according to a diplomatic cable seen by Reuters. The cable, sent last Friday by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ...
As President Donald Trump touts new oil pipelines and pledges to revive the nation's struggling coal mines, federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase of heat waves, droughts and floods in the United States. The disconnect is the ...
A federal climate report says the United States is already feeling the effects of climate change, with temperatures rising dramatically over the last four decades. That's according to The New York Times, which acquired a draft copy of the report by scientists from 13 federal ...
A decade ago, utilities were persuading politicians around the country to let them spend big to go nuclear. Expanding nuclear energy capacity was a sure bet, they said. Natural gas prices were rising, energy needs were skyrocketing and the federal government was poised to cripple ...
The Trump administration on Friday officially told the United Nations that the U.S. intends to pull out of the 2015 Paris climate pact. But the State Department's announcement doesn't formally start the process of the U.S. getting out of the voluntary agreement. That's still to ...
When Rani's husband died by drinking pesticide, he left the family in debt. But even if they could pay off the loans, Rani said their farming days are over. "There are no rains," said the 44-year-old woman from drought-stricken Tamil Nadu, one of hundreds of ...
A New Mexico startup is betting on automakers to develop hydrogen cars and wants to provide material for them as nations and companies scramble to bring pollution-free vehicles to drivers. The Albuquerque-based Pajarito Powder is developing material for hydrogen fuel cells that CEO Tom Stephenson ...
French President Emmanuel Macron said he was hopeful that U.S. President Donald Trump would reverse his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, according to weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) on Sunday. "(Trump) told me that he would ...
The chief executive officer of Denmark's Vestas Wind Systems A/S says the world's biggest wind turbine maker wants to expand in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region as it taps into growing demand for renewable energy in new markets. Vestas intends to be a ...
U.S. President Donald Trump pitched a new concept to his supporters Wednesday for the wall he intends to erect on the Mexican border: Cover it with solar panels — and use the energy to cover construction costs. "Yes, we will build a wall," he told ...
Building the 428 hydroelectric dams proposed for Brazil's Amazon basin — three times the existing number — would devastate the environment and could even disrupt regional weather, an international team of researchers warned Wednesday. Writing in the journal Nature, the scientists unveiled a Dam Environmental ...
