Generating Power From Tidal Lagoons
By BETH GARDINER
Supporters of a proposed facility in Wales say that sea-based arrays could provide as much as 10 percent of Britain’s power within a decade.
Whether at household operations or at industrial facilities, a centuries-old technology is increasingly being used to extract energy from crop waste, kitchen scraps and sewage.
Supporters of a proposed facility in Wales say that sea-based arrays could provide as much as 10 percent of Britain’s power within a decade.
The effort, by Thomas F. Steyer, has turned the battle over the State Senate into one of the most expensive legislative elections in state history.
A historian of science imagines what future generations will make of our current handling of climate change.
Representative Nick J. Rahall II has defiantly held on to his seat in a district that faults White House policy for the area’s declining coal industry.
Mr. Piltz, a climate policy analyst, resigned from the administration of George W. Bush in 2005, accusing it of distorting scientific findings for political reasons and then releasing internal White House documents to support his contention.
Curbing emissions has long been a popular cause in the European Union. But leaders have to agree on how to generate and distribute energy.
Electricity demand has not met projections, but the cost of upgrading coal-burning plants makes this an opportune moment for the reactor to arrive.
The Pentagon on Monday released a report asserting that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages.
Scientists have probably underestimated warming since the 1970s, a study says. That could affect some climate change measures.
A group of writers recently made the trek to the summit of an unnamed mountain for a minor act of civil disobedience: a ceremony to name it for Thoreau.
A quixotic historian tries to hold oil and gas companies responsible for Louisiana’s disappearing coast.
A visit to the Aller-Leine-Tal, one of many energy cooperatives that have contributed to the success so far of Germany’s Energiewende, or energy transition.
The small German island of Heligoland, a popular tourist destination, is undergoing dramatic change as the wind industry takes over.
Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, the World Health Organization’s assistant director general, announced that the agency would endorse the use of drugs untested in humans to combat the Ebola virus in West Africa.
Colony collapse may be over, but the pollination squad needs help.