Climate & Energy

Driverless Cars, Greener Cities

By David Ferris March 12, 2014

In this story: design, urban planning, technology, clean energy, activism

Up to Speed

Two Months, One Page

By Paul Rauber March 11, 2014

In this story: climate change

Extreme Weather: Who's to Blame?

Time for a climate agreement is running out, and tempers are running short

By Paul Rauber March 7, 2014

In this story: extreme weather, climate change

The aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines, which left more than 1.9 million homeless.

Power Forward

By David Ferris March 7, 2014

In this story: solar, clean energy, activism, green jobs

Mark Davis, CEO of WDC Solar, Washington, D.C.

Warrior Up!

To ship coal from the Powder River Basin to China, you have to go through the heart of the Lummi Nation.

By Jeff Galbraith February 14, 2014

In this story: coal, dirty energy, saving wild places

Japan's Choice

Rich geothermal resources could replace much of Japan's shuttered nuclear power--but at the risk of spoiling its treasured onsen

By Eliza Strickland February 14, 2014

In this story: geothermal power, clean energy

The Art of Diminished Resistance

Tom Wylie wants to change the way ocean researchers commute to work

By Steve Hawk May 4, 2013

In this story: wind, clean energy

Tom Wylie in the workshop adjacent to his Canyon, California, home. The model in the foreground is of a Wyliecat 44. | Photo by Mitch Tobias

Grande Slam

Although it's rarely paddled these days, the dehydrated Rio Grande can still hand out a drubbing.

By Frank Clifford May 10, 2013

In this story: water, climate change, adventure

Paddlers enter the Rio Grande's lower canyons, a stretch of river downstream from Big Bend National Park.

Corporate Climbers

Trading granite walls for giant turbines, mountaineers cash in on their rope skills to keep America's wind farms humming

Text and photographs by Andy Isaacson March 18, 2013

In this story: wind, adventure, climbing, clean energy

Mountaineers cash in on their rope skills to keep America's wind farms humming.

Look to the Fishes

Biomimicry provides design for cheaper, smaller turbines

By Edward Humes March 12, 2013

In this story: technology, wind, clean energy

CalTech biophysicist (and MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" winner) John Dabiri applied what he learned studying the fluid dynamics of schooling fish to design an entirely new wind turbine.