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Beyond traditional farming: How solar energy is transforming India's agricultural landscape
India's agricultural sector is increasingly recognising solar energy as a strategic solution to its irrigation, energy-cost and sustainability challenges. With agriculture accounting for a significant share of the country's electricity consumption…
Pot Inc. is more than meets the red eye - the legal marijuana industry is versatile and still growing
Customer service isn't so great these days: It's dismal to fly on most US airlines and it's demoralizing to shop in many US supermarkets. But as I've recently discovered, there's a notable exception to this unhappy trend, and that would be Pot Inc.
Cattle farmers in Korea reeling from solar panel policy
At noon on Aug. 6 in a rural village in Naju, Jeonnam-Gwangju Special Metropolitan City, a thermal imaging drone camera showed the home and Korean cattle barn of Kim Young-hee, 73, and her husband, Lim Jae-yeol, 70, glowing red like a blazing heat…
Athens Area Habitat for Humanity hosts solar barn raising at Micah's Creek
Athens Area Habitat for Humanity hosted a solar barn raising Saturday morning at Micah's Creek to celebrate construction progress on the new affordable, solar-powered housing neighborhood near downtown Athens. The 11-acre neighborhood will include…
I found 4 places to install solar panels that aren't the roof
Residential and commercial solar relies on solar panels to collect energy, so you'll often see panels mounted on the roofs of homes and businesses. For many installations, this is an ideal location for harnessing UV rays, as the sun is always…
Sri Lanka seeks faster green energy shift after oil shocks
'There are some wake-up calls... pushing us to move more to renewable energy,' Anura Karunathilaka said. 'If we can get as much as possible from renewable energy, that would be our policy in the next few years.' The island nation, which imports all…
Rosebank: Life on the oil field at the centre of a political storm
When we landed by helicopter at Rosebank, this oil field was at the centre of a political storm - and set to be in the path of a real one. We arrived on Wednesday morning, just a few hours after the UK government had granted consent for the…
Rosebank: Life on the oil field at the centre of a political storm
Scotland editor, Rosebank oil field When we landed by helicopter at Rosebank, this oil field was at the centre of a political storm - and set to be in the path of a real one. We arrived on Wednesday morning, just a few hours after the UK government…
China's clean energy achievements accelerate global energy transition, says IEA chief
This aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 9, 2026 shows vehicles to be exported at the BYD Fuzhou base in Fuzhou, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang) China's achievements in clean energy technologies are impressive and have accelerated…
Wonkette Book Club: Sunshine Superpower Can Save The World
Yr Wonkette is reading our new book club selection, Bill McKibben's 2025 bestseller Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization (Wonkette affiliate link), and by gosh, it's giving us a much-needed dose of…
T1 Energy wins Commerce waiver to import 1.725 GW of solar cells
T1 Energy has received a waiver from the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing it to import up to 1.725 gigawatts of solar cells, a move the company says will keep its Texas module factory running while new domestic cell production comes online. The…
Could Redwire Be the Next Rocket Lab?
Rocket Lab (RKLB +2.69%) just pushed the first launch of its Neutron rocket to 2027, and the stock has dropped more than 20%. But the company has grown beyond rocket launches to become a broader space technology company. Could Redwire (RDW +2.70%)…
Former ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott's Toorak home listed for sale
Shayne Elliott, former chief executive of ANZ bank, and his wife Nagla Khattab have put their luxurious single-storey Victorian Toorak property on the market with an indicative selling price of $10.9 million to $11.9 million. The four-bedroom…
Promising Solar Stocks To Keep An Eye On - October 24th
MarketBeat Week in Review – 08/10 - 08/14 First Solar, Nextpower, Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Enphase Energy, and SolarEdge Technologies are the five Solar stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Solar stocks…
Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
Barnes Ice Cap sits on the central plateau of Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic. It is the last surviving fragment of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets, which at its peak buried most of Canada under two miles…
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