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ScienceNews: The next generation of solar cells will be small. About the size of lint. But the anticipated impact: That's huge. Some of these emerging electricity-generating cells could be embedded in windows without obscuring the view. Engineers envision incorporating slightly larger ones into resins that would be molded onto the tops of cars or maybe the roofs of buildings. One team of materials scientists is developing microcells that could be rubber-stamped by the millions onto a yard of ...

Four of the world's largest freshwater fish species - including a catfish 10 feet long - face extinction if dams are built on the Mekong River, the WWF warned Tuesday. Must see pic!

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Here are the top ten countries in the world according to installed photovoltaic (PV) solar energy capacity. Think you know the order? You might be surprised?see if you can name all ten countries in the right order before continuing on.

A new supercomputer model has taken a leap forward in predicting whether or not a storm system will grow into a hurricane.

Other companies would not just have racked up a multibillion-dollar loss, they would have suffered the corporate equivalent of a public lynching and gone underOne chief executive overboard, a $17bn loss over the past three months and $32bn in clear-up costs. No doubt about it: BP has got off lightly

The Government has revealed plans to abolish the Health Protection Agency.

UK GHG emissions from waste are five times higher than in Germany.

Almost a quarter of China's surface water remains so polluted that it is unfit even for ANY purpose, while less than half of total supplies are drinkable, data from the country's environment watchdog showed on Monday.

5 years ago, the three-story-tall, 14-story-long luxury yacht Summerwind maneuvered above the celebrated barrier reef that lines the coast of the Central American nation of Belize. There it dropped anchor- and plunged into controversy over severe damage to a coral reef system officially recognized by the United Nations as one of the world's most

Business Green: Rising energy prices and the Government's climate change policies will drive energy intensive industries overseas, warns a report published jointly today by the Energy-Intensive Users Group (EIUG) and the TUC. The Cumulative Impact of Climate Change Policies on UK Energy Intensive Industries cites steel making, ceramics, paper, cement and lime manufacture, aluminium and basic inorganic chemicals as industries based in the UK which face increases in their energy costs of up to 141 per ...

As rising temperatures lower crop yields, climate change may drive millions of Mexicans into the US, a study suggests.

This slideshow highlights ways software can be used to improve overall data center energy use, helping both the company’s bottom line and the environment.

Plastiki, a 60 foot vessel buoyed by over 12,000 2-liter plastic bottles, sailed into the Sydney Harbor today, completing a 130 day, 8000 mile journey from San Francisco. A long way to travel for the coveted 10 cent deposit!

A system for generating small quantities of electricity from waste water, called HighDro Power, uses an in-line turbine to generate electricity from falling waste water in the soil pipes of high-rise buildings.

Gaffe-prone chief executive stands down following Gulf oil spill - but will be nominated to board of BP's Russian business

During NASA's ICESCAPE voyage to the Arctic, scientists have been looking at the phytoplankton in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea -- how many, how big and at what depths they are found. But there are other ways of looking at these small life forms.

Defra has published a discussion document on England's environmental policy.

Councils key to meeting UK green power target, says report