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.

CLEVELAND -- Gov. Ted Strickland says the wind energy industry is emerging in Ohio.

A New York company finds that Nikiski is a good spot to develop wind power. After collecting data for a year, BQ Energy finds that Nikiski has favorable conditions for a 10-tower complex near the Tesoro ...

Modern day concentrations of ground level ozone pollution are decreasing the growth of trees in the northern and temperate mid-latitudes, as shown in a paper publishing today in Global Change Biology .

SCOTLAND will need 10billion spent on windfarms and other new electricity sources over the next 12 years, experts said yesterday.