Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which a commonly used industrial yeast strain converts plant sugars to biofuel.
Every week, it seems, we learn more about the consequences of air pollution — and in particular of the smallest airborne particles, known to scientists by the name PM2.5, which are capable of traveling deep into the lungs and entering the bloodstream, and from there, causing havoc.
Tesla Motors reported just the second quarterly profit in its history as a public company, reversing a string of consecutive losses.
A hundred years ago, the electric motor lost out to the gas engine. A century later, electric vehicles are staging a tepid comeback: they now make up about 1% of global auto sales.
Oil prices tumbled Monday amid doubts over OPEC’s proposed output cut, after Iraq signaled it wants to be excluded from the pact.
Oklahoma’s oil and gas sector, one of the biggest in the country, is in bad shape. So bad that the state’s governor has called for divine intervention.
All it took was a pair of bolt cutters and the elbow grease of a few climate activists to carry out an audacious act of sabotage on North America’s massive oil and gas pipeline system.
We are nearing the beginning of what I’m calling the “second great electric-car extinction.”
“In the current situation, we think that a freeze or even a cut in oil production is probably the only proper decision to preserve stability in the global energy market.”
New oil discoveries have been hailed by the oil industry, but many environmentalists and independent energy experts say that the world needs to keep most of the remaining hydrocarbons in the ground to meet the broad targets of the Paris climate conference.
