The next generation of ethanol plants, including one that opens Friday in Nevada, Ia., could play a large role in reducing the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, industry and environmental leaders said.
Technologies that combine electricity with traditional engines are becoming commonplace. Within a few years, you’ll be hard-pressed to find an engine that doesn’t shut off when you’re idling at a stop light, recapture energy from braking and get an battery-assisted boost for passing.
Rising global temperatures could soon push the sun-baked cities of the Persian Gulf across a threshold unknown since the start of civilization: the first to experience temperatures that are literally too hot for human survival.
How did Patricia get to be so strong? The answer, quite simply, involves human-caused climate change.
Collaborating with the Bush-Cheney White House, Exxon turned ordinary scientific uncertainties into weapons of mass confusion.
A team of MIT scientists has completed a study of using methanol as a gasoline substitute, and they’ve concluded that “methanol is a viable transportation fuel.”
Traffic pollution near the home – and specifically, benzene in the air – increases the risk of one type of childhood leukemia, according to a nationwide study in France.
In a new analysis released as the Paris climate change summit nears, the International Energy Agency says countries’ collective pledges to reduce emissions would lead to a dramatic disconnect between using energy and emitting greenhouse gases.
Just one year after 2014 set a record as the hottest year in the historical record, 2015 is on track to beat it by a substantial margin, possibly signaling a return to a sustained period of rapid global warming.
A North Dakota oil well owned by Oasis Petroleum Inc blew out over the weekend and has yet to be capped, leaking more than 67,000 gallons of crude so far and endangering a tributary of the Missouri River, state officials said.
