My weather app says it’s 80 degrees, but that’s a lie. I’m standing on a football field at Portland State University with professor Vivek Shandas, and we can feel intense heat radiating off the grass.

You are here because of a single, all-important enzyme. But don’t look inward to find ribulose-­1,5-­bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, known more mercifully ...

The European Union’s cap-and-trade system has long been considered the gold standard for market-based emissions-reduction ...

As tech companies have built hundreds of hyperscale data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom, they have ...

You can’t tell when you’re passing one on the highway, but an electric vehicle may well have a superpower. It charges by plugging into the electric grid, of course, but it might also be able to send ...

Brutal price wars among manufacturers have caused solar panel prices to plummet, making renewable energy cheaper than ever.

The city’s summer school program had just begun and that day temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit.  “Even though the ...

In remaking USAID’s Feed the Future Innovation Labs, Trump is abandoning an agricultural research effort built to benefit the ...

The state has a $25 million deal with a consortium of companies to explore private financing Not everyone is sure it will ...

A hush has fallen over the Democratic Party — a “climate hush,” to be precise. The phrase captures the push within the party to focus more on the high cost of living and less on the planetary crisis, ...

The 12-point plan calls for greater protection of Indigenous rights, lands, and voices as climate change and other threats ...

The region has added dozens of turbines off the East Coast since last summer. They and other clean energy sources cut the ...