Islands offer many advantages for hosting wind farms without the problems of mounting wind turbines in a hostile marine environment.

It is difficult to see how the security threats raised by the spread of nuclear power to the Middle East can be controlled except by the strengthening...

The price of oil has oscillated from an all-time hike of almost $150 a barrel to a low of $30, hand in hand with the credit-crunch and the inextricable...

Is energy merely another commodity among many in the modern industrial economy? Or is it the very basis of our financial and material life?

Nuclear energy power plants may be booming in the next few years. What risks of nuclear weapons proliferation might this bring?...

Can the plutonium recovered from spent civil nuclear-power reactor fuel elements (civil plutonium) be used to fabricate nuclear weapons with significant...

As rapidly as it has fallen, the average pump price of unleaded regular gasoline in the US still has a ways to go, to end up lower on Barack Obama's Inaugural...

by Richard T. Stuebi. The challenges associated with climate change are so daunting -- so much emission reductions to achieve, so much money to invest...

The extraction of uranium is dangerous, leaves a toxic legacy for millions of years in vulnerable parts of the world, and is hardly conducted in an ethical...