Energy

an overhead shot of land split in three. the left side is dry and dusty. the middle has some vegetation, and the right side has a lot.

Desertification is destroying fertile land. Here’s how we’re fighting it.

a female presenting person in a lab coat holding a solar cell

New “tandem” solar cell breaks world record

A new tandem solar cell containing layers of silicon and perovskite has demonstrated an unprecedented efficiency of 33.7%.

Kristin Houser

Clean Energy

These 4 charts show the unstoppable growth of solar

Solar is growing fast enough to displace fossil fuels from the entire global economy before 2050, but infrastructure needs to keep up.

Andrew Blakers

Clean Energy

This startup wants to build a radically powerful new kind of wind turbine

Norwegian startup World Wide Wind wants to build offshore wind turbines based on a completely different design from traditional models.

B. David Zarley

Clean Energy

This rock-bending tech may change clean energy

A technology that stores energy underground could make enhanced geothermal systems more cost competitive.

Kristin Houser

Clean Energy

Heat pumps can cut your energy costs by up to 90%

Heat pumps are becoming all the rage around a world that has to slash carbon emissions rapidly while cutting energy costs.

Alan Pears

Clean Energy

Wave energy generator passes 10-month test at sea

A wave energy generator has completed a ten month open ocean trial.

B. David Zarley

Clean Energy

New solar device can pull hydrogen straight from the air

Researchers have created a solar-powered device that can pull water from the air to create hydrogen.

B. David Zarley

Food

This strange fruit could feed the world during climate change

Ensuring food security over the coming century will be a major challenge. A new study suggests that breadfruit may be the answer.

Sam Jarman

Transportation

Electric school buses are taking students back to school

Can electric school busses bring cleaner air and lower maintenance costs to school districts across the country?

Andrea Marpillero-Colomina

Clean Energy

Today’s coal plants could be converted to run on clean hydrogen

Australian startup Star Scientific has developed a tech it says makes it easy to use hydrogen fuel at existing coal-fired power plants.

Kristin Houser

Clean Energy

Researchers have found a way to pull more than 95% of uranium from seawater

Seawater contains millions of tons of uranium, but it’s too expensive to extract. A new material may change that.

B. David Zarley

Agriculture

The challenges of wireless farming technologies – like transmitting data through mud

The Agricultural Internet of Things involves technologies such as wireless underground communications and antennas in soil.

Abdul Salam

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