A roof is more than a way of keeping the rain off. Nowadays many people think of a roof as a place to put solar panels to collect all of that free sunshine. The problem is that not all roofs are created equal. Scientists from the University of Gothe…

The ship, which has spilled hundreds of tons of oil off the New Zealand coast, has developed a serious structural crack.

Green energy is one of the most rapidly expanding industries in the world right now due to so many people looking to do their part to help save the planet. With so much focus on solving global warming and reducing air pollution, smarter and cleaner for…

It is far cheaper, per watt of capacity, to put a solar panel on a commercial roof or out in the open desert than on a house, which explains the market’s changing shape.

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — With fields of solar panels and a pilot microgrid project, the sprawling Marine base here is at t…

A recent industry analysis projects the amount of solar power installed to grow to 15.5 percent per year, but revenues are to stay flat until 2016. Lux Research provided the report. A report from Navigant Consulting discovered that the price of solar p…

FLANDERS, N.J. — A giggling Kyle Bartz used the new rooftop solar panels as a trampoline atop the sprawling Toys “R” Us dist…

Powered by sunlight in the proximity of the equator, a 102-foot vessel sails the seven seas to prove the viability of solar energy as a transportation tool.

You can find permaculturists setting up worm trays and bee boxes, aquaponics ponds and chicken roosts, composting toilets and rain barrels, solar panels and earth houses.

Modern electronics as we know them, from televisions to computers, depend on conducting materials that can control electronic properties. As technology shrinks down to pocket sized communications devices and microchips that can fit on the head of a pin…