Earlier this spring, Google's Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg created a living wind map of the United States. The interactive graphic displays surface wind data from the National Digital ...

A new interactive map released Thursday shows the location of all the wind farms in the United States. Wind power started in California in 1981 when the Altamont wind farm in Alameda County was built ...

I still remember the first time I sprawled on my back across the grass and watched the clouds drift by. I was about four or five years old. I found animal shapes and people shapes, and excitedly ...

A road trip through Iowa, Wyoming or eastern Colorado features plenty of twirling wind turbines, and they might beg a question: How much wind power can those turbines generate? Renewables such as wind ...

The U.S. has set a goal to reach 100% clean energy by 2035, but a nationwide analysis by USA TODAY shows that achieving it is increasingly unlikely – local governments are banning green power faster ...

A nationwide analysis by USA TODAY revealed a trend that threatens to derail U.S. clean energy goals: local governments are banning new utility-scale wind and solar power faster than they’re building ...

A paper highlights just how many jobs in a commuting zone are wind or solar based on job opening data. Places with higher shares of job postings that are wind tended to be down the middle of the US.

WASHINGTON — Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth’s ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly a ...

Winter storm Jonas brought with it record-breaking amounts of snow and blustering winds when it plowed through the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States in late January. Now, scientists at NASA ...