Much hope for an affordable clean-energy solution has been placed on the potential of biofuels like ethanol. Stanford University's Chris Somerville, director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology, shares that optimism-but...

Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds has signed an agreement to buy 140 wind turbines, the largest ever for offshore wind turbines, from Siemens for its wind farm off the British coast. They're expected for delivery in 2009 and 2010.

Toyota has developed a new type of hybrid that plugs into a home socket for a longer ride as an electric car, raising the stakes in the race to develop the vehicles.

The crisis of mass honeybee die-off is affecting commercial, not organic, beekeepers. Honeybee die-off, or "Colony Collapse Disorder," is a frightening event given that bees pollinate one-third of our food supply. Why are organic bees OK? Report:

An 80 megawatt (MW) solar power plant - the world's largest and big enough to power nearly 21,000 homes - will be built near Fresno, California.

As part of a drive to make the big apple greener, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that the city's fleet of taxis will be converted to hybrid models by 2012.

The Subaru assembly plant in Indiana has now gone three years without creating trash. All the waste in the SIA plant is either reused, recycled or used to generate electricity that is fed into the grid for the city of Indianapolis.

Ceravision has just announced that they have developed a lightbulb that is 50% efficient (more than twice the efficiency of CFLs) and is expected to outlast whatever device the bulb is put in, so apparently your lamp will break before the bulb does.

Google Inc. aims to voluntarily cut or offset all of its greenhouse emissions by the end of the year, by investing in energy efficiency, renewable energy (like solar), and purchasing carbon offsets, the company said Tuesday.

Search for "Largest corporate solar installation in the U.S." and you'll see Google pop up in the results. As of yesterday, the search engine giant became a lot less dependent on the grid by flipping the switch on nearly 9,212 solar panels.