After achieving the first circumnavigations of the globe in a balloon and more recently in a solar aircraft, Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard unveils his new emission-free project: a green hydrogen ...

The Solar Impulse 2 is traveling from China to Hawaii. — -- It's the launch of the newest adventure in this first-of-its-kind aircraft. For the next 130 hours, six days and six nights with no ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Governments facing elections this year have been citing cost as reason to avoid climate action But campaigners like ...

LES SABLES D'OLONNE, France (AP) — When aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard a decade ago spearheaded a much-hyped flight around the world in a plane powered by sunlight, it raised awareness about ...

Bertrand Piccard is no stranger to achieving the improbable. In 1999, the Swiss aviator and his copilot Brian Jones were the first to circumnavigate the globe in a hot-air balloon. In 2016, he did it ...

Solar Impulse 2 (“Si2”), the world’s most advanced solar-powered airplane and the first to fly day and night without fuel, landed successfully in Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, following a 20 ...

On its journey around the world, Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) - after a flight of three days and three nights (71 hours and 8 minutes) without fuel - has completed its crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to land ...

Solar Impulse 2 has set a new world record for the longest non-stop solo flight. Landing in Hawaii Friday morning local time, the sun-powered plane, piloted by Andre Borschberg, stayed in the air for ...

Explorer and environmentalist Bertrand Piccard estimates that three-quarters of the world's energy goes to waste. "If we try to replace fossil [fuel] energy with renewables without being efficient, ...