For decades, scientists have searched for effective ways to remove excess carbon dioxide emissions from the air and recycle them into products such as renewable fuels.

University of Alberta chemists have taken a critical step toward creating a new generation of silicon-based lithium ion batteries with 10 times the charge capacity of current cells.

An American coal company is suing the Canadian government over Alberta's plan to combat climate change.

Perhaps more than in other parts of the world, in the Middle East energy and water are closely intertwined. 

While global coal demand looks set to rise for the second year in a row in 2018, it is forecast to remain stable over the next five years, as declines in Europe and North America are offset by strong growth in India and Southeast Asia, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest coal market report, Coal 2018.

Britain will get more of its electricity from renewable energy sources than fossil fuels as early as next year, according to a new report from the energy analysts group EnAppSys.

The piezoelectric materials that inhabit everything from our cell phones to musical greeting cards may be getting an upgrade thanks to work discussed in the journal Nature Materials released online Jan 21.

Rocks in the seabed off the UK coast could provide long-term storage locations for renewable energy production, new research suggests.

The primary component of natural gas, methane, is itself a potent greenhouse gas.

They call it “magnetic boron nitride (MBN)” but what a team of engineering researchers at the University of Calgary has developed, to put it simply, is a super sponge for soaking up aquatic oil spills.