The energy intensive lamps are quite literally, and figuratively, getting a green makeover and may be sprouting on a street near you soon. Lovegrove's innovative lighting project, the "Solar Tree," is ...

A group of scientists from the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences designed a prototype of a solar photovoltaic tree that purportedly offers an optimal balance between energy ...

WORCESTER — Judy Mitchell has owned her home on Englewood Avenue for over 40 years. Eight years ago, she added solar panels to the front of her roof. Now she has a problem. A tree planted by the city ...

With the right technology, solar energy has the potential to meet all of the world's electricity needs, but we are still a long way off from that point. Still, governments around the world are setting ...

Metal trees with a seven-meter canopy of solar panels that generate electricity may soon be coming to car parks and shopping malls in the UK. The structures, which will capture the sun’s energy ...

WORCESTER ― For the second time, a city committee has declined to ask City Hall to develop a policy to balance the planting of trees on public streets with the needs of homes and businesses with ...

Around 14 hours before a partial solar eclipse passed over the Dolomites in Northern Italy, a group of spruce trees showed a ...

Our Sun is capable of some truly terrifying outbursts – and now scientists have discovered evidence of its biggest tantrum on record. Tree rings dating back around 14,000 years contain a radiocarbon ...

The strongest solar flare in recorded history burst into Earth’s atmosphere in 1859, bathing both hemispheres in brilliantly colorful aurorae as it wreaked worldwide havoc on telegraph systems. The ...