Alternative Energy

American troops were not welcomed with flowers in Iraq but their departure from cities and towns has been.

A year after oil hit a record closing price, the commodity's price is way down -- and may fall significantly further as supply continues to dwarf demand.

Baghdad's first auction for the rights to develop its massive energy reserves is a flop, as economic and political factors restrain foreign investors...

… or how we traveled back in time to dial-up connections and email without attachments. Warning: This is an entry that might interest more the geeks among you than the general public.

Nigeria's state oil company rejected criticism from a leading human rights group Wednesday, calling an Amnesty International report "inaccurate."

The Iraqi government stumbled once again on Tuesday in its frequently delayed effort to award development rights to its most valuable oil fields.

The new Yahoo data center in Lockport, New York will feature a new design that the company has dubbed the Yahoo Computing Coop, which is optimized for free cooling.

David Gergen - Across America and much of the world, opinion of Barack Obama as president continues at levels rarely seen in recent decades. Sure, there has been sniping from the right and a little slippage in the polls, but mainstream opinion – both in

As the House vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act approached this week, prominent media conservatives once again took to the airwaves and displayed their true colors. Criticism of the bill from the right has not been the product of principle

Oil jumps above $70 a barrel as rebels attack another oil installation in Nigeria.

The average cost of a gallon of gas rose for the 39th straight day and is up more than 27% during that time. However, since the begining of the year gas prices have rose 40% but a barrel of oil has onl rose by 21%!

Mysterious glowing blobs of gas in the deep universe are mysteries no more: The clouds appear when galaxies are in the process of slowing down their own growth.

a new type of low cost, high reliability and power, liquid electrolyte based direct methanol fuel cell that does not require air to operate. This is the first major innovation in fuel cell technology in over 20 years, where a repeatable, reliable non-PEM

What if rejuvenating your life was as simple as moving a few things around? According to the ancient Chinese art of feng shui (pronounced fung shway), it is.

A sharply divided House of Representatives debated passage of a White House-backed climate change bill Friday as Democratic leaders made a final push among members worried about the legislation's potential economic and political fallout.

U.S. Stocks Drop as Savings Rate Hits 15-Year High, Oil Falls ..Economic and earnings growth is “potentially not going to be as robust as some were thinking. That’s weighing on stocks.”

Yet another broken promise by the Obama administration....

The $200,000 device allows the waves that pass underneath to push air from one chamber into another. The movement of air drives a turbine to generate power.

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.

Greenpeace Water Patrol activists today blockaded a polluting waste dump on the shores of Laguna Lake to halt shoddy "closure" operations that will do more harm than good to the lake and surrounding communities. The environment group, together with the...