The world has focused first on energy in its effort to stop greenhouse gas emissions, but former Energy Secretary Steven Chu puts agriculture at the top of his list of climate challenges—particularly animal agriculture.
The Nobel Prize winning…
Greenhouse-gas emitting is a lot like cigarette smoking, said former Energy Secretary Steven Chu: you can do it for decades before the cancer shows up, and then it's very difficult to recover.
The Nobel Prize winning physicist lamented in a…
Former Energy Sec. Steven Chu told a roomful of scientists in Chicago they should think now what they could do with renewable electricity that costs only 1.5¢ per kilowatt hour.
And, he suggested, those thoughts should include hydrogen.
"The cost of…
Los Angeles imagines transforming itself from a carpocalypse into a transitopia, with free public transit gliding past traffic in dedicated bus lanes. Two kinds of motorists will pay for it.
Long known for gridlock and air pollution, Los Angeles…
Scientists believe climate change will cause much more violent turbulence of the sort that broke the leg of a Turkish Airlines flight attendant this weekend and sent 28 passengers to the hospital.
Severe turbulence is expected to increase by several…
Dockless bikes are complementing their docking elders in some cities, bike-share experts said in Chicago last week, instead of—as some had feared—driving them to extinction.
"There’s a rising-tide-floats-all-boats effect that’s happening in cities…
Energy efficiency is widely regarded as the least costly source of additional energy, the most immediate way to reduce carbon emissions, a crucial part of any plan to achieve climate goals and advance a clean economy. It enjoys bipartisan…
2018 may have been the year of residential energy storage, according to a leading analyst, but grid storage was no slouch.
2018 was also the year that grid-level batteries broke out of early adopter states, said Dan Finn-Foley, a senior analyst with…
Scientists are close to monitoring the greenhouse-gas emissions of individual cities, according to the Stanford University professor who chairs the Global Carbon Project, and soon after should be able to trace emissions to individual sources.
"It’s…
Energy Department researchers see enough promise in the battery in your flashlight, and the one under the hood of that rusting junker in your front yard, that they've put them on the list of cheaper, safer, more reliable successors to…
