Snow has a "high albedo," meaning it reflects a lot of sunlight back into space. When there is no snow, the sunlight is ...

Tests conducted by Canadian researchers at the NREL's testing field in Colorado have shown that ground reflectors based on high-density polyethylene can significantly increase bifacial PV plant ...

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We normally think of trees as being good for the environment. But in parts of the Midwest and Great Plains, they're heating ...

Researchers in Canada are testing the use of reflective surfaces to boost electricity production in bifacial solar panels.

We often think trees are good for the environment. But in the Midwest and Great Plains, they're worsening climate change as ...

But the increase projected in river flows by the new study still won't compensate for all the losses in flows that have ...

Officials with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will pay nine companies between $200,000 and $300,000 each ...

NASA has selected nine companies to perform feasibility studies of commercial approaches to deliver spacecraft to Mars and ...

Mars exploration has always been the exclusive purview of national space agencies, but NASA is trying to change that, ...

Trees warm the planet in places where they reduce the ground’s reflectivity — including much of Kansas — and don’t capture enough carbon to offset it.