Chicago had a new mayor and a progressive new transportation director, both fresh from D.C., in 2012 when it decided to launch Divvy, its city-owned bikeshare system. Since then the Divvy system has seen more than 10 million rides on 5,800 bikes tied…
2017
Prodded by renewables to embrace smart technologies, utilities are discovering ways sensors, data, and connectivity can save them millions of dollars.
Michael Reid, a general manager of technical programs for Duke Energy, said Wednesday the company…
Increased temperatures from climate change will reduce yields of the four crops humans depend on most—wheat, rice, corn and soybeans—and the losses have already begun, according to a new meta-study by an international team of researchers.
Humans…
Markets have proven more efficient than regulations and rebates at tackling the energy and climate challenge, a leading environmental economist argued recently in Aspen.
The most popular policies in the United States—rebates for appliance upgrades,…
Villagers walk past solar panels mounted on the roof of a building, part of a solar power microgrid,… [+] in the village of Dharnai in Jehanabad, Bihar, India, on Thursday, July 9, 2015. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambition has led…
Dogs and cats are responsible for a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions caused by animal agriculture, according a new study out Wednesday, which adds up to a whopping 64 million tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent emitted in the production of their…
New research seems to confirm what some have suspected: climate change is behind a surge in suicides in India over the last four decades, particularly of farmers.
Human-caused global warming has led to 59,000 suicides in India since 1980, according…
Like a rocket on a radar screen, small-scale solar energy has muscled its way into the government's meticulous portrayal of the energy landscape.
For many years, the U.S. Energy Information Administration only released annual estimates of solar…
Science has spoken the words that governments dare not say. Two scientists completed an extensive review of individual actions that can be taken to mitigate climate change, and they are not the actions governments and textbooks tend to urge upon…
Four green technologies are growing fast enough to do their part in a zero-carbon-emissions world by mid-century, an International Energy Agency official said this week in Chicago.
But they need a little help from other technologies, said Eric…
