Plugging in our phones at night and monitoring their percentage throughout the day is a fixture of modern life, and the push toward electric cars stands to create even more charging anxiety. But battery materials company Group14 has developed a silicon material that could make these obsessive habits something to laugh about in the future.

If you follow battery technology, you may roll your eyes at another headline about a "revolutionary" new formula, and to be fair, Group14 makes some familiar claims. All of them say they have a "breakthrough" that will help batteries hold two times the amount of energy—an EV with a 300-mile range would have 600; your phone battery could last multiple days—and charge in minutes.

Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield was banned from ExxonMobil’s board after a merger for conspiring to keep gas prices high.

NPR listeners wrote to ask whether the environmental harm from building EVs "cancels out" the cars' climate benefits. Experts say the answer is clear.

A federal grant of $62 million to the nonprofit Center for Rural Affairs in Lyons, Nebraska, will help build residential solar-power installations for

The White House wants a twenty-fold increase in geothermal energy production to fight climate change and it's counting on the oil and gas industry for help.

Much of Florida will experience July-like temperatures, with high heat indices to close the week. Many hot records will be broken or tied.

The Exxon Mobil refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Image credit: WClarke/Wikimedia Commons) Plastic particles and chemicals pollute all of our bodies. But people living on the fencelines of the fossil fuel, plastic, and waste industries face even more life-threatening pollution.

The Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) "has the potential to be for geoscientists what the Large Hadron Collider has been for particle physicists." So say researchers working on the project to drill straight into a magma chamber to explore massive geothermal power.

Scientists believe modern flamingos, which state wildlife officials do not believe are native, are reclaiming their historic range and want the birds reclassified. A new Audubon count has raised their optimism.

On-air meteorologists say that climate change has to be part of the discussion of today's increasingly severe weather

HYANNIS – The U.S. Department of the Interior is proposing new sites in the Gulf of Maine for offshore wind energy development. The lease area includes six parcels available off of Outer Cape Cod. …

American drivers want cheap EVs. Chinese automakers are building them. But you can't buy them in the U.S., thanks to tariffs in the name of U.S. jobs and national security. Two car shoppers weigh in.

Nature can’t run without parasites, and climate change is driving some to extinction. What happens when they start to disappear?

Louisiana’s “River Parishes,” located along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, shoulder some of the worst industry impacts in the

Either nuclear weapons kill us or we move beyond them, soon. Via mass death or the building a new security system, the nuclear age is finished. The

Just off a trail in Central Florida lie evidence, piled in bear boneyards, of Florida’s battle between development and an imperiled corridor.

Longleaf pine conservation is considered a key part of climate resilience for Florida and the Southeast. But when it comes to climate change, longleaf pines are not out of the woods.

It is unclear why the suggested rule was not released by its intended deadline. But a spokesperson for the federal agency told NPR that its implementation "continues to be a high priority."

It sure looks like Tesla has a hiring freeze after weeks of "hardcore" layoffs.

HYANNIS – Marine animal researchers are gearing up for a busy shark season for Cape and the Islands. The marine predators have been more frequent in the region in recent years as seal populat…

The following story is part of a statewide media partnership exploring the myriad challenges facing the Florida Wildlife Corridor.