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Amount of clean energy bought by companies triples in two years, with Google biggest buyer

Tech giant’s push for greener energy prompts biggest renewable energy deal in corporate history

Waymo, an autonomous vehicle company owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, will add 20,000 all-electric Jaguar I-PACE SUVs to its self-driving car fleet over the next two years...

Dandelion, a clean energy startup that was originally incubated inside Google parent Alphabet, has raised $4.5 million in funding to build out its business — a geothermal heating and cooling system for homes that claims...

Dandelion, a clean energy startup that was originally incubated inside Google parent Alphabet, has raised $4.5 million in funding to build out its business — a geothermal heating and cooling system for homes that claims...

Leading scientists pick the dozen most significant discoveries and developments of 2017 – from a steep decline in flying insects to a virus that can kill bacteria Continue reading...

The power consumed by the internet giants’ massive server farms and the mining of the cryptocurrency are growing into a giant environmental headache

In collaboration with Sidewalk Labs, a start-up created by Google to "accelerate innovation in cities around the world," the city of Toronto will embark on a futuristic redesign of its waterfront that will incorporate cutting...

One of the arguments against solar and wind is that the renewable energy sources are intermittent and thus unreliable -- the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow...

 Storing the energy produced from renewable sources is a significant challenge, and one that a number of players, including Tesla, are looking to address...

Indoor vertical farming is on the rise, if a recent funding round for San Francisco startup Plenty is any indication. The company just scored what they say is the largest agriculture technology investment in history. Plenty...

The future is here—or, at least it could be getting closer. A little company called Zee.Aero has been working for the past several years to develop a small electric plane that can take off and land vertically. In essence,...

Three years ago, Alphabet (then just "Google"), announced an ambitious plan to help bring internet access to remote regions via fleets of solar-powered balloon...

Google makes the money but Alphabet’s other companies are wildly ambitious, from ‘curing’ ageing to robot butler design

Data-centre web servers, such as those used by Google and Facebook, to blame for 2% of greenhouse gas emissions – about the same as air travel