Natural Environment

At Patagonia Inc.’s California headquarters, some windows double as power generators.The outdoor-clothing retailer is one of the first companies to test solar-panel windows, a new and…

Acentury ago, “a chicken in every pot” was an ambitious political slogan. It has long since become an everyday reality. Americans will consume nearly 100 pounds of chicken per capita this…

Marketers are often running digital ads on websites that provide relatively low returns on their investment but generate comparatively high carbon emissions, a new study said.Roughly 15% of…

BRUSSELS—U. S. and European Union environmental policies are on a collision course, prompting an urgent meeting to defuse rising tensions over clean-technology subsidies that threaten to…

Modern airliner designs date from the 1950s: a metal tube and swept-back wings with jet engines slung underneath. They get you where you’re going and back. But after decades of research,…

Sixty-five miles off the coastal Norwegian city of Bergen, a drilling rig is punching through layers of mud and rock below the North Sea. The energy firms behind the rig aren’t prospecting…

Toyota Motor Corp. TM -1.27% is addressing critics who say it is behind rivals in the race for greener cars, nearly a year after the auto…

Trevor Milton, the Nikola Corp. NKLA 3.24% founder who enticed auto-industry leaders and investors with…

Biologists are working with engineers to develop new tools to accelerate the development of medicines derived from marine animals, focusing on ocean-going robots with onboard DNA-sequencing…

New technology is on the way to assist in a growing public-safety problem: How to get people out of the way of wildfires, floods and other natural disasters.The need to get emergency…