It's Déjà Vu all over again: An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP's massive oil spill. In other green news this week, the US G...

'Sceptical environmentalist' previously argued that countering climate change should be a low priority for governments • Bjørn Lomborg calls for global climate fund • Climate change voice who changed his tune Self-styled "sceptical environmentalist"...

The all-new Ford Focus Electric, which debuts in the US late next year and in Europe in 2012, will be powered by a lithium-ion battery pack with cells from CPI/LG Chem ( earlier post ) that utilizes heated and cooled liquid to help maximize battery ...

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its chairman Rajendra Pachauri are under fire after the release of the InterAcademy Council’s investigation into IPCC. The report suggests several changes are needed including changes to ...

By David Belden If micro-inverters are the current craze in the solar industry, then I predict that solar energy monitoring systems will be the next big thing. Micro-inverters (and other parallel technology) are given lots of attention because they ...

Eco Factor: Prototype vehicle powered by an electric motor. Till date we’ve only seen bikes and e-bikes that can be folded to easy carriage. Researchers at the Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan have developed an all-electric vehicle that too l...

September 1 – As Hurricane Earl spins about 700 miles southeast off the coast of South Carolina, some residents and tourists along the eastern seaboard have begun fleeing the on-coming storm. Officials have ordered the first mandatory evacuation ord...

PLYMOUTH, England, Aug. 31 (UPI) — A “natural laboratory” in the Mediterranean revealing effects of carbon dioxide levels in oceans paints a bleak picture for future marine life, researchers say. Scientists from the University of Plymouth in England...

The newest project out of MIT: Seaswarm robots that are designed to act like a "legion of seagoing Roombas" that skim the ocean surface to pick up oil. The robots are each outfitted with a GPS and Wi-Fi…

American Samoa will make it illegal for stores to hand out plastic bags once a new law takes effect early next year. American Samoa - Plastic bag - Oceania - Law - Government