Articles tagged "fossil fuels"

Covering coal plants in living, creeping surfaces is a pretty good idea. But for the opposite reason the designers intend.

Where industrial pollution creates its own sunsets.

Despite the terror inspired by nuclear disasters like Fukushima and Chernobyl, the ledgers say nuclear power is way better for humanity.

Coal, nuclear, oil, wind, gas, solar—which one is going to kill you?

Scientists have determined that a 5.7 Oklahoma earthquake was manmade.

2010 was a brutal year for fossil fuel industry workers. The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon killed 11 rig workers, and an accident at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch claimed the lives of 29 coal miners. The fallout to the disaster, caused by an

The International Energy Agency has released its annual World Energy Outlook, and one finding in particular is making all the headlines: By 2035, the United States will be the world's largest oil producer. Yeah, thanks to fracking, we'll be able to g…

In September, not a single new fossil fueled power plant was brought online. No coal, no natural gas. No new carbon-spewers. Instead, we saw five brand new wind farms bring 300 megawatts of capacity online, and 18 new solar installations that clocked…

No new fossil fuel power plants. No new coal-fired plants, no new natural gas plants. Nuclear power plants? None of those, either. That's the big ask of a letter three high-profile scientists have published in Nature Materials; they want a morato…

The logic that anchors peak oil is beyond simple—there's a finite amount of the black stuff, and we'll eventually run out of it. The question of when, precisely, we'll hit bottom is the matter of intense speculation, and for good reason. No substance…

As a species, we’ve done alright. Technologically speaking, we’ve achieved so much in the last couple of centuries. We’ve flown to the moon, invented the Internet, I mean, we’ve even created invisibility cloaks and cloned shit. But there is one part…