Climate Technology
All Stories
-
![]()
![]()
Solar plane crosses U.S., injects sexiness into the green conversation
Solar Impulse has the wingspan of Boeing 747 but weighs only as much as a Subaru Outback. It shows that environmentalism is anything but boring.
-
![]()
![]()
The key to turning urban youth into anti-government crusaders? Food trucks
They say the way to a young person's heart is through his stomach, but this one might be a bit of a stretch.
-
![ad:]()
![ad:]()
Canada’s government is spending millions to get you to like the Keystone pipeline
A big marketing campaign aims to convince Americans that Canada is a critical source of eco-friendly oil and that Keystone XL is a great idea.
-
![Nissan Leaf]()
![Nissan Leaf]()
More than 100,000 electric vehicles now on the roads in U.S.
Sales of the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S helped the industry reach this milestone. Meanwhile, Tesla plans to repay a government loan nine years early.
-
![]()
![]()
Utilities for dummies: How they work and why that needs to change
Utilities are boring and opaque, but central to any clean-energy future. So it's time to demystify them. Here's a plainspoken intro to how they work, and why.
-
![farmer]()
![farmer]()
Could the Monsanto Protection Act get repealed?
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is trying to roll back a provision that allows GMO crops to be planted even before they've been OK'd by the USDA.
-
![]()
![]()
Nation’s biggest uranium mine planned in New Mexico
Companies from Japan and Canada want to build the mine on land held sacred by Native Americans, and the U.S. Forest Service may just say OK.
-
![]()
![]()
Best switcheroo ever: Scientists could extract gold with cornstarch instead of cyanide
Any time you can switch out cornstarch for cyanide in an industrial process, you're doing well.
-
![]()
![]()
BP, Shell, Statoil accused of fixing oil prices
European officials have raided the oil companies' offices, and now a U.S. senator wants an investigation launched on this side of the pond.
-
![]()
![]()
BP wants U.S. government to reduce court-ordered oil-spill payouts
BP says it shouldn't have to pay so much to help companies hurt by the Deepwater Horizon spill. It wants the U.K. government to ask the U.S. government for help.
