The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing ...

European Union leaders sought Thursday to salvage ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and switch to renewable energy, despite a widening economic slump that has cast doubt on the continent's ...

The Governor rightly puts clean energy at the heart of the economic stimulus plan.

Napa Valley's Historic Bardessono Farmstead Morphs Into America's Greenest Luxury Hotel West Marin sawyer Evan Shively reclaimed wood for the Bardessono within a 100-mile radius of the Napa Valley.

Over the next 20 years or so, oil and natural gas will lose top ranking as the world's most affordable energy sources, according to a survey of energy executives released Wednesday.

Deeper wells in more inhospitable places, both political and geological, have altered presumptions of doing business in the oil patch.

Nearly three out of four executives and managers surveyed last month by Deloitte LLP said oil and gas is the cheapest available energy sources for now, though only 23 percent believe that will be the case in 25 years.

Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for energy secretary, has been a vocal advocate for more research into alternative energy, arguing that a shift away ...

East Africa is set to get a natural boost next year by tapping into the sizeable reservoir of geothermal energy in its Rift Valley, according to a statement released today by the United Nations Environment ...

CINCINNATI - An area of southwest Ohio that is about to lose a DHL air shipping hub is pushing for local control of the air park and considering ideas such as a "green enterprise zone," which could give tax ...

For more than 70 years, California's abundance of sunshine has enabled the Lundberg family to grow rice in the Central Valley north of Sacramento.

Now the sun is helping the family churn out myriad rice products, from chips to cakes to pasta.

Lundberg Family Farms, which bills itself as the nation's largest producer of organic rice and rice products, is among a small but growing number of California growers and processors who are turning to solar power to help them run their operations.

Phoenix is considering a plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to below 2005 levels.