Climate Technology
All Stories
-
![]()
![]()
Carrotmob helps you give businesses a reason to make positive changes
It works like an inverse boycott. Rather than influence businesses by withholding money, customers can influence businesses by giving them money.
-
![]()
![]()
Youngstown, Ohio, voters on fracking: “Yes, please”
A ballot measure that would have outlawed fracking in the city went down in defeat after a business group heavily outspent anti-fracking activists.
-
![Robert Murray]()
![Robert Murray]()
Coal companies have gotten good at wrangling their way out of federal fines
Firms hit with safety citations routinely manage to get fines reduced, raising questions about the mine-safety system's effectiveness.
-
![]()
![]()
Grow your own glow-in-the-dark rose
Researchers who fantasize about using trees as street lights have already made smaller plants that glow.
-
![]()
![]()
Should America export its fracked gas? Why greens say no.
The rest of the world is eyeing the cheap natural gas produced by fracking in the U.S. Obama will soon decide whether we should share.
-
![]()
![]()
In the Gulf, a long history of oil spills and cover-ups
When the Deepwater Horizon spewed millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, we were horrorstruck. But wait, there’s more …
-
![San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station]()
![San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station]()
One nuke plant in Wisconsin will shutter, another in California might not be switched back on
Low-priced natural gas doomed the Wisconsin plant, while maintenance problems plague the San Onofre nuke facility along the Pacific coast.
-
![]()
![]()
Phone-charging, wifi-providing, levitating bike is one of the coolest concept bicycles we’ve seen
It charges. It hovers. It has batteries. It's a bike. It's a miracle.
-
![]()
![]()
Canadian tar-sands exec: ‘We do need Keystone’
Contrary to what the U.S. State Department says, the head of an oil-sands company insists that the industry needs the pipeline to help it expand.
-
![]()
![]()
This cellphone charger runs on water
Soon, you will be able to charge your cell with water. Oh, and this contraption that costs like 200 bucks.
