The air in Beijing is often very bad. The city sinks under a brown cover made of exhaust gases from industry, cars and coal fires, which blow a lot of harmful particulate matter, soot, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the air.

When deciding whether to participate in programs designed to conserve energy during peak hours, consumers appear to rely more on their intuition about how much money they’re saving rather than on proof their bills are smaller, a new study has found.

Professor Anthony O’Mullane said the potential for the chemical storage of renewable energy in the form of hydrogen was being investigated around the world.

New research on wind behavior in complex terrain, led by NOAA and the U.S. Department of Energy, will improve forecasts for wind energy firms by 15-25 percent, and improve wind forecasts for the entire country, scientists said.

MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated power. 

Researchers at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus are aiming to improve the efficiency of light electric vehicles (LEV) by developing next-generation ‘passive’ cooling solutions for the vehicles’ battery chargers. 

Pitt Engineering researchers study potential benefits in co-treating Pennsylvania's acid mine drainage and shale gas wastewater.

Chinese scientists shed light on the meteorological conditions responsible for the rate of icing growth on electric power transmission lines. 

The last few years have been turbulent for the global dam industry.

Wake effect from upwind wind farms can reduce the energy production of downwind neighbors.