As demand for low-carbon electricity rises around the world, nuclear power offers a promising solution. But how many countries are good candidates for nuclear energy development?

In Brazil, researchers are puzzling over socioeconomic and environmental indicators that do not add up.

Lakes store huge amounts of methane. In a new study, environmental scientists at the University of Basel offer suggestions for how it can be extracted and used as an energy source in the form of methanol.

India has set ambitious targets for renewable power, with plans to quintuple its current wind and solar energy capacity by 2030. 

Perhaps the best hope for slowing climate change – capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions underground – has remained elusive due in part to uncertainty about its economic feasibility.

University of Texas at Dallas researchers have discovered that a novel surface they developed to harvest water from the air encourages tiny water droplets to move spontaneously into larger droplets.

Floating solar farms could help to protect lakes and reservoirs from some of the harms of climate change, a new study suggests.

The world needs more electricity. As populations grow, standards of living increase and more people gain access to modern conveniences, countries will need to expand their energy generation capacity.

After eight months of research, deliberation, discussion and numerous town halls, the Academic Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Divestment and Strategic Reinvestment Investigations has published a preliminary draft report detailing recommendations for the University of Utah to divest its holdings in the fossil fuel industry and reinvest in renewable resources.

UC Santa Cruz researchers published a new study—in collaboration with UC Water and the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced—that suggests covering California’s 6,350 km network of public water delivery canals with solar panels could be an economically feasible means of advancing both renewable energy and water conservation.