Renewable energy is soaring around the globe, but one obstacle to its growth has been how to store the electricity to use it ...

Ventura, Calif.—It’s a flawless sunny day in Ventura, California. In the coastal city, north of Los Angeles, surfers bob on boards watching the swells for the ideal wave. If you want a long ride, here ...

On This Week in Water: Renewables overtake coal as the world’s biggest source of electricity, why data centers may be a surprising source of “forever chemicals,” and what happens when La Niña meets ...

Every time there’s an online outage or streaming service starts to buffer, there’s an impulse to blame a hacker...or “the cloud.” After all, web traffic is handled by satellites, right? Wrong.

In 1860, when Colorado was still a territory and the gold rush was on, farmers who settled on the eastern plains were looking for another source of wealth—water. The state’s prairie is mostly without ...

For the first time ever, the amount of global electricity generated by renewable energy surpassed that from coal during the first six months of 2025. According to the think tank Ember, solar and wind ...

In just 24 hours, the area, which is generally very dry, received more rain than what typically falls in a year, from Storm Daniel in the Mediterranean, similar to a hurricane and called a “medicane.” ...

The vessel, which had the tallest mast of any yacht in the world, sank rapidly. Fifteen people survived. Italian officials believe that the sudden storm caused a waterspout to form in the exact spot ...

Nate McCaffrey wasn’t around in a time people call the “Dirty Thirties”—the Dust Bowl era, when the drought-stricken plains lost tons of topsoil. But he can imagine it. McCaffrey is a farmer in his ...

In a major turnaround, the U.S. government is planning to announce an international agreement to triple the use of nuclear power by 2050, which involves at least ten countries on four continents, ...

World leaders, politicians, and titans of industry gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week to discuss global issues, including this year’s focus—the war in Ukraine, ...