Energy & Science

Fish is often considered one of the greenest meats to consume, but the soybeans used to raise them can lead to deforestation

Mining is destructive to everything around it but renewable tech requires more metal than ever. Now there may be a green solution to this conundrum.

Either the world is “heading in the right direction” or it’s hurtling toward “hell in a handcart.” It depends on who you ask.

Methane plume is worst detected in Russia in nearly a month attributed to oil and gas sector in European Space Agency satellite data analyzed by Kayrros.

Mark Siffin’s foray into the Permian Basin leaves behind financial and environmental wreckage that outlasts his presence in West Texas. 

Deletion of “2100” in the latest draft of the COP26 text goes well beyond what the G-20 agreed to prior to the Glasgow summit

Concentration of the super-potent greenhouse gas detected by satellite over a top coal-producing region.

A bet on `blue hydrogen’ could leave Appalachia with another set of stranded assets in boom-bust plagued shale country. 

Plant-based fuels are expensive and not entirely clean.

The nation is racing to stay cool as deadly heat waves travel through its cities

New net-zero pledges from nations promise to bring global climate agreement closer to 1.5 degree goal, but worse outcomes are possible if countries walk back goals.

World Weather Attribution is a research collaboration that looks for signs of human influence on extreme weather events nearly in real time. Here’s how scientists dissect a heat wave event.

The super potent greenhouse gas was detected in Liaoning near a pipe that runs from the Dalian LNG terminal to Shenyang.

A multimillion dollar research project will produce an open-access database of so-called blue carbon

As COP26 redoubles efforts against the gas, a new plant tackles plume visible from space

Super-thin membrane from startup Osmoses aims to cut pollution and improve CO2 capture economics

An early estimate of 2021 emissions shows that China has returned to historic levels of coal burning. 

China is planning at least 150 new reactors in the next 15 years, more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35.

New data offers an unprecedented chance to compare the environmental impact of BP, Exxon and other oil majors across the Permian Basin.

The country is the world’s third-biggest emitter and one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of global warming.

The seven warmest years in the past 170 are the last seven years.

London-based startup builds a small, modular unit that can trap emissions at a much lower cost than existing technologies

CNX’s DeIuliis makes a claim that environmentalists call greenwashing

It’s unclear whether developments that haven’t begun construction will go ahead after President Xi Jinping’s promise to stop building projects abroad. 

An epic surge in investment is needed to fill the gap left by fossil fuels.

On the eve of global talks in Glasgow, a new report outlines what countries need to do to drastically lower greenhouse gases

Is the industry green enough for the Green Zone? 

The United Nations issued its latest assessment of national climate pledges ahead of a high-stakes summit in Glasgow

The company faces accusations of greenwashing that could potentially be resolved if nations come to an agreement of how to define and use offsets. 

Operator says it wasn’t able to capture all the gas from disconnected section of pipeline during the work.