The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of construction while the U.S. Bureau of Land Management assesses whether more than 3,000 acres of tortoise ha...

Solar power, magnetic cars and a green Big Brother. Does this experiment near Abu Dhabi work?Masdar City – in picturesA dusty construction site on the edge of an Arabian desert is an unlikely place for a model of green living. But this is Masdar City...

PENN STATE (US) — Inexpensive hydrogen for automotive or jet fuel may be possible by mimicking photosynthesis, but the process needs to overcome several hurdles first. “We are focused on the hardest way to make fuel,” says Thomas Mallouk,...

The Energy Department provided $27 million to nine new solar projects under a program to drive down the cost of solar power production.

America has an opportunity to rebuild its economic preeminence through scientific innovation. And given our scientific and technical expertise, solar energy conversion should be a high priority.

OSLO (Reuters) - Shrinking ice and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reflecting ever less sunshine back into space in a previously underestimated mechanism that could add to global warming, a study showed.