Against the odds, the BP chief executive has got his life back 'Was Tony Hayward right, after all?" These are words I would never have expected to read, least of all in the US, where BP's chief executive is hated as a bogeyman; yet they were indeed ...

Eco Factor: Concept car powered by an electric engine. The Enyoii electric concept car is the brainchild of designer Gerardo Delgado Martinez and has been conceptualized for young people, who love to drive and enjoy the elements of nature along the ...

Image via BBC The warming temperatures of the ocean are problematic for many species, but especially worrisome is the impact hotter water has on cornerstone species upon which many other marine animals rely. Usually we hear about changes in ocean te...

Boris Johnson's bike scheme launched London today. Follow live updates and post your views and experiences of Barclays cycle hire

by Daniel J. Weiss. This article was cross-posted from the Center for American Progress . The Senate has taken Americans on an energy and climate roller coaster over the past year as Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and others at...

MIAMI — Gulf beaches from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle were closed or slapped with health warnings nearly 10 times more often this summer than...

Eco Factor: Discarded car batteries to store power during off-peak hours. Japanese automaker Nissan believes that owners of electric cars might soon be able to power their homes using discarded electric car batteries. On an average a battery at the ...

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Chevrolet , GM It has long been apparent that the more successful a talk radio host is, the less relevant the facts become. Case in point is this week's apparent tirade by Rush Limbaugh against the 2011 Chevrolet V...

The past decade was the hottest ever recorded and global temperatures are now rising at a rate of about one-fifth of a degree Fahrenheit every decade, according to the annual “State of the Climate” report issued by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmos...

Government commits to just £43m of the original £230m promised for programme to subsidise the uptake of electric cars A government grant scheme to give motorists up to £5,000 off the cost of a new electric car has been cut by 80%, opposition politic...