Climate and environment

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The weary and worn residents of Julianne Johnson’s neighborhood in Asheville have been getting by without electricity since Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeast last…

This undated file image provided by the U.S. Department of Energy shows an electric continuous miner machine run by Randy Wilson, left, and Blas Castaneda, chewing through a wall of salt during the excavation of Panel 8 at the Waste…

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, joined at right by Arati Prabhakar, the president's science adviser, announces a major scientific breakthrough in fusion research that was made at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in…