Volcanoes were erupting on the moon as recently as 120 million years ago, evidence collected by a Chinese spacecraft suggests. Until the last few years, scientists had thought volcanic activity ended ...

Scotland’s stormy Pentland Firth is an ideal site for extracting electricity from ocean tides. (Photo by Phillip Capper via Flickr) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free ...

A team of Scottish engineers created a new tidal turbine blade that may reduce the cost of converting ocean currents into energy. The University of Edinburgh experts said their invention “reduces the ...

KIRKWALL, Scotland — Huddled inside what looks like a tanker ship anchored about two miles from shore, engineers from the Spanish company Magallanes Renovables monitor two giant rotors below the hull ...

It has the second largest tidal range in the world, which could be used to meet up to 5% of the UK's electricity needs. Two forms of technology are being assessed by the study: tidal barrages and ...

The Sustainable Solutions Lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston produced the “Feasibility of Harbor-wide Barrier Systems” report for flood damage reduction in Boston in May 2018. Two scenarios ...

In Great Britain and other European countries, companies are preparing to use the energy of ocean waves and tides to produce electricity. The UK is hoping to produce as much as 5 percent of its ...

Estuarine flow is highly dependent on a number of factors, including freshwater discharge, wind, and tides. In multiinlet bar-built systems, the flow can further be driven by mutual forcing between ...