Tag: energy
Renewable energy is cheaper and healthier – so why isn’t it...
Jay Gulledge, University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee
You might not know it from the headlines, but there...
Can the world quit coal?
Stacy D. VanDeveer, UMass Boston
As world leaders and thousands of researchers, activists and lobbyists meet in Brazil at...
Coal plants emitted more pollution during the last government shutdown, while...
Ruohao Zhang, Penn State; Huan Li, North Carolina A&T State University, and Neha Khanna, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...
Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota
As energy use rises and the planet warms, you might have dreamed of...
A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions
Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan
For more than a decade, controversy over an oil pipeline that passes directly through...
Trump reversed policies supporting electric vehicles − it will affect the...
Jeremy J. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University
When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, it was the largest...
The treaty meant to control nuclear risks is under strain 80...
Stephen Herzog, Middlebury
Eighty years ago – on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 – the U.S. military dropped atomic...
California farmers identify a hot new cash crop: Solar power
Jacob Stid, Michigan State University; Annick Anctil, Michigan State University, and Anthony Kendall, Michigan State University
Imagine that you...
EXPLORING NATURE
How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...
Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University
Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States....
