Solar projects at desert military bases could produce 7,000 megawatts of solar energy -- a huge amount.

EVs have more than enough range to make 95 percent of the trips we take by car.

Scotland aims to source 100 percent of its power from renewables by 2020, but to reach that goal, it needs the price of offshore wind power to drop.

A hedgehog survey is the most British endeavor ever, right?

This video from National Geographic will make any self-respecting maritime predator think twice before attacking a hagfish, an eel-like creature that secretes slime from its pores. Also, fair warning, you may not want to watch this with food in your mouth. (Click the image below to watch the video on the NatGeo site.)

Guess what will happen if orangutans' habitats are compromised to the point where there isn't sufficient fruit? THEY WILL EAT SLOW LORISES, THAT'S WHAT. Dude, we need to do everything we can to prevent this from happening.

In a rare example of scientists being vaguely funny and no more than six or seven years behind the times, Australian scientists have named this gold-butted horsefly after Beyoncé. 

Dirt is great stuff: You can grow things in it, which means that in the future when the only thing left is climate change, zombies, and Terminators designed to look like Kardashians, it will be a kind of wealth. So you should probably be hoarding it like a Ron Paul fanboy hoards gold. The cool thing is that, unlike gold, you can produce your own dirt -- even if you live in a city.

It’s not news that utilities can be budget-killers, and apparently people are getting wise to the fact that energy-efficiency means lower utility bills. A recent Yahoo survey found that energy efficiency is the one feature everyone can agree on when they imagine their "dream home" -- ahead of water views, a custom build and all the other things Americans usually aspire to.

There's tons of evidence in the fossil record that as earth's climate has changed in the past, species have moved around in order to avoid dying out. Before there were humans on this planet, disrupting migration pathways with our cities, roads and expanses of concrete, animals could simply move north or south to keep up with a warming or cooling climate. In fact, this is probably the reason that many past climate changes did not coincide with mass extinctions.

Remember Andrew Hyde, the guy who owned only 15 things? Weeeeellll it turns out he has slightly more than 15 things now. Actually he has 39 things. Still doing better than you, bucko!

In Sweden, city planners and the country's traffic authority are looking into building a four-lane bike superhighway between the university town of Lund and Malmö, Sweden's third-largest cities and one of its most diverse.

Cities like London have invested in protected lanes that they call “bike superhighways,” but this one would be one of the first to connect two cites (you know, like an actual highway). The designs for the trail have it following the path of railway tracks, protected from wind by fences and hedgerows.

Speaking of Bond villains and energy sources, here's an idea with no possible drawbacks: Turning a dormant volcano into a roiling cauldron of geothermal energy.