The rapid growth in renewables is great news, but not without challenges, writes Texas-based economist M. Ray Perryman.

3 min read Solar energy is the technology used to harness the sun's energy and make it useable. As of 2011, the technology produced less than one tenth of one percent of global energy demand.

Wind occurs naturally when the sun heats the atmosphere ... and elevation changes. Wind patterns and speeds vary significantly across terrain and seasonally, but some of those patterns are ...

A new study has revealed significant acceleration in the upper-ocean circulation of the equatorial Pacific over the past 30 ...

The interactions between global climate change and ocean oscillations -- fluctuating cycles in wind and ocean temperatures -- are impacting weather patterns in the Greater Mara-Serengeti ecosystem in ...

Though global wind capacity has nearly doubled in the past five years, solar has more than tripled. And the trend is set to continue. Solar installations are forecast to jump 34% in 2024 ...

with new research from Monash University identifying wind patterns as a key cause. Until now, the cause behind the spike in ocean temperatures resulting in coral bleaching had been unclear ...

That will change in the coming years, however, as global wind energy demands increase and more advanced turbines are installed to fulfill those needs. “If such a complex structure as a house is ...

It may be surprising to some, then, to learn that the single largest source of alternative energy in the United States is wind power. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration ...

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A new study from the World Wildlife Fund found that global wildlife populations have shrunk by 73% in just 50 years. The study included almost 35,000 population trends of nearly 5,600 species ...