Science Magazine has a section devoted to alternative energy in its August 13 issue. It is somewhat technical. You should be able to access all articles from within Rice and some of it from anywhere

http://www.sciencemag.org/special/energy/

Iran is fueling its power reactor

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/21/iran-nuclear-bushehr-reactor-fuel-load

Safety Issues Linger as Nuclear Reactors Shrink in Size

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/business/energy-environment/19minireactor.html?ref=science

Nuclear Power is in the News

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/business/energy-environment/17nukes.html

There has been a step forward on fusion

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8485669.stm

NY Times story on central heating (and living without it)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/garden/21cold.html?pagewanted=1&8dpc

NY Times story on wind power

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/energy-environment/21wind.html?ref=science

The Guardian's articles on nuclear power

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/nuclearpower

Easy to read, yet detailed, summary of alternative energy sources

http://www.inforse.org/europe/dieret/dieret.html

Guardian Newspaper collection of stories on Energy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/energy

N.Y Times discussion of Green Energy:

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/green-civil-war-projects-vs-preservation/

Wind energy in the news

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/science/earth/14wind.html?ref=science

Alternative energy in Portugal. Includes interesting observation that grid has to be modernized to make this work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/science/earth/10portugal.html?pagewanted=3&ref=science

Environment

Environmental impact of telecommuting

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305133.html

Possible downside to geothermal power

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/energy-environment/geothermal-power/index.html

Automotive X-Prize

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129893403&ft=1&f=1001

A very thorough and thoughtful discussion of the science behind climate change: This is required reading for the course

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15719298

A collection responses to climate change skeptics

http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php

UN to have top scientists review climate change panel work

Water Vapor and Global Warming

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/science/earth/29vapor.html?ref=science

Mistake in global warming report

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/20/himalayan-glaciers-melt-claims-false-ipcc

American Physical Society statement on global warming.

http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/07_1.cfm

Haiti Fault Lines

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/opinion/15blum.html

Using Cement to Capture Carbon Dioxide

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/business/energy-environment/22cement.html?ref=science

Icelandic Volcanic Activity has Global Consequences *http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100322/ap_on_sc/eu_iceland_volcano;_ylt=AnG0LNpDvMOCwmPysWBX_ZYPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJqZzNlMmd0BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMzIyL2V1X2ljZWxhbmRfdm9sY2FubwRjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzIEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDaWNlbGFuZHNlcnVw

IBM and Stanford University Unveil Green Chemistry Breakthrough That Could Lead to New Types of Environmentally Sustainable Plastics (HW #7)

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29638.wss

Security

Must read article on Iran and enrichment

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/science/09enrich.html?ref=science

What is Iran up to?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2010/feb/22/iran-nuclear-weapons

NY Times article about a bogus bomb detection device

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html?scp=1&sq=ade+651&st=nyt

More news on this device, arrests have been made

The bulletin of atomic scientists http://www.thebulletin.org/ have moved their doomsday clock back 1 minute.

http://www.thebulletin.org/content/media-center/announcements/2010/01/14/doomsday-clock-moves-one-minute-away-midnight

Basic Physics

Looking for acoustic wave in the universe *http://scienceblogs.com/brookhaven/2010/09/catching_echoes_of_the_early_u.php?utm_source=nytwidget

Proton acceleration with Large Hadron Collider

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/science/20cernbrf.html?ref=science

Antimatter creation and a supernova

http://www.physicscentral.com/news.cfm?ID=111

Large Hadron Collider and the Fundamental Questions of Physics

Recent experiments may have broken Law of Parity

http://www.physorg.com/news188211977.html

Misc.

Research on superconducting magnets for the LHC

http://www.physorg.com/news203346998.html

This is not about physics but about peer review which is an essential ingredient in all science.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/sep/06/peer-review

Rice Scientists develop technology that may shrink computer chips.

Although not directly related to physics this article discusses something profound about belief that may impact how the public interprets or misinterprets science.