Researchers at California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) made huge progress in the quest for energy’s holy grail in the journal Nature yesterday, revealing that a fusion reaction produced more energy than it required last fall. Take that, Malthus.

Alaskan state legislators have just over a month to keep the ball rolling on a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) project that would help bring America’s glut of natural gas to Asian markets.

After 13 years of obstruction and disagreement, a pest-resistant genetically modified crop of corn could finally be making it way to EU’s fields. Bureaucracy is doing what scientific analysis couldn’t: override intractable green resistance and bring a smarter kind of corn to Europe.

Obama and Hollande have made the fruitless pursuit of a Global Climate Treaty one of the key focuses of this week’s visit. The GCT may be dead, but that doesn’t mean the embattled heads of state don’t have a green leg to stand on:

Yesterday, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman announced that America would be challenging India’s protectionist solar energy trade policies. It’s hard to play nice when it comes to solar energy.

For more than a decade, global surface temperatures have defied our best climate models by refusing to rise, even as we pump out unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases. A new study has a new explanation for why our models are getting it wrong: equatorial winds.

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Germany has sizable reserves of shale gas—the EIA estimates as much as 17 trillion technically recoverable cubic feet of it—and a long familiarity with fracking. If it really is as green-minded as it claims to be, it would start fracking with gusto.

Vast reserves of offshore natural gas have tensions running high in the eastern Mediterranean. We’ve seen plenty of gunboat diplomacy in the East and South China Seas in recent years, but the hydrocarbons buried underneath the Mediterranean make it another important sea to watch.

Europe’s green energy policies have sent its electricity prices sky-high, and in doing so are threatening the continent’s competitiveness on the world stage. The Gray Lady’s solution? Have the rest of the world pay higher prices, too.