Climate & Energy

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

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

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

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

Biomimicry provides design for cheaper, smaller turbines

Wind is no longer the energy source of the future. It's ready today.

Until now, rooftop solar has only worked for those with hefty electric bills and sunny roofs.

Searching the Arctic for a long-lost world of woolly mammoths and giant sloths, a traveler discovers a new one disappearing fast

Rural mothers become solar engineers

From the governor to Native leaders to maple syrup producers, Vermonters aren't sitting still for climate change