After her first husband died in a plane crash, the writer stepped in to run his company. “Focusing on the job,” she says, “was a lifesaver for me.”

A search for common ground among people deeply split over greenhouse-driven global warming.

The traditional canoe is at the center of several projects aimed at reducing Fiji’s energy consumption, providing cheaper transport, keeping local traditions alive and giving a boost to tourism.

The Energy Information Administration estimated that there are 482 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in the United States, down from the 2011 estimate of 827 trillion cubic feet.

A coal-backed group pushes for the cancellation of a lecture by a Pennsylvania climate scientist.

An article raises the issue of whether the Sierra Club's support of natural gas as a "bridge fuel" was influenced by donations from the gas industry.

Researchers find that extreme cold induces acute stress in coral but that heat is ultimately more lethal.

A new study based on research in western Australia suggests that warming seas can benefit corals -- but perhaps only to a point.

To aid defense contractors, researchers try to map how butterflies carry out an astonishing variety of flight maneuvers.

Sinohydro's Kamchay Dam is complicating life for the people downstream, especially those who rely on fish for food and work.

Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Gulf Coast now stands to benefit as money pours in for restoration.

The outgoing chairman of Commonwealth Edison’s parent company, Exelon Corp., is a throwback to the days of the straight-talking executive.

A disturbing look at the unremarkably horrid life of an industrial pig.

The wayward birds could not be persuaded to follow a pilot flying an ultralight plane.

Scientists denounce a proposal in Canada for killings of Atlantic gray seals, saying there is no evidence that it will cause the cod population to rebound.

The Interior Department says that offshore wind farms pose no significant threat to the environment off the coasts of Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Delaware. Although the department is now encouraging developers to submit applications, it is unclear whether offshore wind projects make financial sense at this time.

There is insufficient data to support the common wisdom that jellyfish populations are exploding, researchers say.

Malaysian regulators granted an operating license for a giant rare earth metals refinery that has been at the center of a dispute over radioactive waste management.

More Nobelists convey their views of the evidence that humans are exerting a growing, and troubling, influence on the global climate.

Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts abandoned plans to collect $90,000 from working on an energy project that he helped finance through Congress.