Energy & Environment
Satellite Images Show Caribbean Islands Turned Brown by Hurricane Irma
NASA released haunting images from space offering a side-by-side comparison of the landscape both before and after Hurricane Irma.
Energy & Environment
Ancient Firebricks Could Be the Answer to Storing Clean Energy
MIT researchers believe they have found a viable source for storing excess energy produced by natural resources.
Biology
Warm Caves Beneath Antarctica's Ice Could Be Home to Unknown Species
Scientists discovered a sub-glacial cave on a Ross Island expedition in Antarctica. They believe that future expeditions will uncover not only new data, but also possibly reveal evidence of new species existing in the ecosystem.
Energy & Environment
Bill Gates Called This Group the Next DARPA
Could ARPA-E really do for energy technology what DARPA did for the Internet? Bill Gates seems to think so; that's why he's investing millions of dollars into the organization.
Energy & Environment
Earth Is Starting to Run Out of Sand
Sand provides a number of benefits to businesses from a diverse number of industries, but its excessive extraction has begun to send up more and more red flags as concern grows about the environmental consequences it brings with it.