Steve Burn isn’t typically the type to try things he sees on YouTube. “I’m not normally that adventurous,” says Burn, of Kirkwood. Then he watched videos of people pumping 6,000 volts of electricity ...

I’m not saying this is the most dangerous thing I’ve ever seen on the internet, but it does do a good job of making the Anarchist’s Cookbook look like a Health & Safety training manual. This video is ...

Robert C Abt is co-director of the Southern Forest Resource Assessment Consortium at NC State University. This consortium provides financial support to NC State. Membership includes wood dependent ...

Here's another example of a climate-change solution that may actually be the opposite. Wood pellets made from trees cut in the forests of North Carolina and the Southeast are a growing alternative ...

A new proposal would significantly rewrite E.U. rules on renewable energy, ending subsidies for biomass like wood pellets. By Lois Parshley In recent years, Europe’s power plants have slashed their ...

Just off I-291 in East Springfield is a seemingly unremarkable plot of land. Sandwiched between an electrical switchyard, busy roads and a working class neighborhood, the fenced-in property is mostly ...

Just off I-291 in East Springfield is a seemingly unremarkable plot of land. Sandwiched between an electrical switchyard, busy roads and a working class neighborhood, the fenced-in property is mostly ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A recent joint study by three California scientists — two from Stanford, one from the University of California, Merced — found that using an acre of corn for ethanol will create fewer miles of ...