While all natural resources are created by the environment, some are regenerated much faster than others. We know that some of the resources we rely on have the potential to run out, while others are ...

Researchers at the Vellore Institute of Technology in India have proposed a new classification of energy sources that is intended to go beyond the usual dichotomy between renewable and non-renewable, ...

Landscape ecologists and plant ecologists analyzed the production and extraction rates of 27 global renewable and non-renewable resources together with economists and sustainability scholars. They ...

While a product manufacturer or industrial plant may use more resources than a small clerical office, all businesses use natural resources. Some resources, such as trees, water and sunlight, renew ...

Renewable energy is generally viewed as a long-term solution to climate change. It’s no surprise, then, that a great deal of effort is going into to powering the world by using only renewables, and ...

Examples of renewable energy include sunlight, wind, hydroelectricity, tidal, waves, wood and geothermal. Non-renewable energy is defined as energy collected from resources that cannot be replaced ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Katharine Beer is a writer, editor, and archivist based in New York. She has a broad range ...