Brick-sized device could power a home, says Bloom Energy


Vehicle-to-grid integration uses cars as batteries

An engineer at the University of Michigan thinks our cars just have it too easy. Instead of sitting idle for hours in parking lots, they should be earning their keep by helping store power for the electricity grid.

Ocean acidification fastest in 65 million years


'Gene-like' crystals could capture CO2


Sydney's 'ugliest building' to get solar skin


Climate could tip without warning, study finds


Commerce Department creates new climate office

The US Commerce Department is to set up an office to provide data on climate change to businesses and communities.

White roofs could cut city temperatures

Painting roofs white really could cool cities significantly and help mitigate global warming, a new study suggests.

US doesn't believe in global warming

Americans care less and less about global warming, according to a survey.

NASA gives global warming theory a boost

It's one of the most controversial subjects on earth, but if data from NASA is to be believed, the past decade on the planet has been the warmest ever.

Severe hurricanes 'set to double this century'

US hurricane damage will rise by a third this century, a new climate study concludes.

Study blames Asia for US ozone pollution

With what some may see as jaw-dropping cheek, a new government-funded study of ozone pollution in western North America has concluded that it's all Asia's fault.  

Fishy invasion threatens Great Lakes


Space agency plans satellites for solar energy and forest monitoring

EADS Astrium - Europe's biggest space company - is working on satellites to supply solar energy from space and monitor deforestation on Earth.

Sun, sea, sand and err, airplane fuel?

From the you couldn't make it up department comes news that you can make airplane fuel from seawater and sand.

Solar cells self-assemble in 'salad dressing'

Your salad dressing could become an electronics factory, if work from the University of Minnesota bears fruit.

Green Touch consortium promises major CO2 impact

A consortium led by Bell Labs is aiming to 'reinvent the network', making comms technologies a thousand times more energy efficient than they are today, and making a major impact on CO2 emissions worldwide.

McDonalds investigates cows' asses


Global warming put on hold for a few decades

Opinion That sound you can hear is climate scientists desperately scraping the bottom of the barrel in a failed bid to maintain the credibility of AGW.

Nokia gets a Greenpeace gong
