February 10, 2009 Bundling together the benefits of two eco-friendly forms of power generation, Scottish company Green Ocean Energy has developed a wave power machine that attaches to an offshore wind ...

Since the 1950s, scientists have known that the Sun emits a stream of particles in a vast wind, carrying away an Earth’s worth of mass every 150 years. This wind of protons sweeps by comets and ...

While Europe’s offshore wind sector has taken off, interest is resurging in marine energy. The UK’s Crown Estate took the major step this March, for example, of awarding leasing rights to 10 wave ...

Surf's WAY up. Crew and Officers of NOAA Ship FAIRWEATHER Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Over the last three decades, the seas became stormier and the roughest waves got bigger, according to a ...

The waves you see at the shoreline are actually wind waves and are the sum of many components that were generated by the wind at a distant site. These components travel at different speeds, depending ...

Marine energy has momentum in the Northwest. Up-front costs are high, but wind, wave and tidal energy are free and boundless. EVERETT — After seven years of effort, it didn’t get off the ground. Or ...

In addition to renewable energy projects featuring solar, wind and energy storage, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday approved looking at the potential of wave energy, offshore ...

Michael Graham Richard is a writer from Ottawa, Ontario. He worked for Treehugger for 11 years, covering science, technology, and transportation. TreeHugger is ten years old this August. We're taking ...

Gray clouds arched over Great Falls on a recent Friday, with a brilliant dome of blue sky visible underneath it. It was a “chinook arch,” an unusual-looking cloud formation common to mountain areas ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Winds over the world's oceans have been blowing harder and ocean waves have been reaching higher ...