Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilize Earth's climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees.

The costs that fossil fuels impose on public health through air pollution alone are enormous.

Woodhouse Colliery would be the UK's first new deep coal mine in three decades.

Replacing wood stoves is essential but won't solve the indoor air pollution epidemic on its own.

Joe Biden has sweeping plans for a clean energy revolution. Congress will be a big speed bump, but it can't block everything.

Low-carbon energy sources aren't all equally well-suited to getting us to net-zero emissions.

The pandemic recession has reduced US energy demand, roiling budgets in states that are major fossil fuel producers. But politics and culture can impede efforts to look beyond oil, gas and coal.

A storm-driven chlorine gas release in a vulnerable community is the type of worst-case scenario that scientists and engineers have warned about for decades.

Energy efficiency and electrification should lead the effort to decarbonise society, not hydrogen.