Wind blows. Water falls. But for the first time, one is now powering the other. Engineers in Germany are storing water for hydroelectricity inside wind turbines allowing the towers act like massive batteries once the wind stops blowing.
Germany is building the world’s first wind turbines with built-in hydroelectric batteries Read more
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been arresting undocumented immigrants with no state charges against them. He has now been charged with criminal contempt.
Arizona sheriff officially charged with criminal contempt in racial profiling case Read more
According to the International Energy Association, the global growth of renewable energy capacity reached historic levels in 2015.
Renewables now exceed all other forms of new power generation Read more
On Monday, in protest of the pay gap, thousands of Icelandic women decided to work the hours their pay merited by leaving their workplaces promptly when the clock struck 2:38.
Women in Iceland protest country’s 14 percent pay gap by leaving work 14 percent early Read more
Oregon officials estimate that they’ll take in around $43 million in tax revenue from recreational cannabis this year.
Cannabis tax revenue is overwhelming Oregon’s tax office Read more
The government wants the piety police to be less thuggish
Saudi Arabia’s religious police ordered to be “gentle and kind” Read more
A world run completely on renewable energyit sounds to be an impossible feat, but in a some places around the world, people have stopped burning fossil fuels for electricity. Another country is about to join the club: Scotland.
Scotland is set to be 100% zero-carbon by 2020 Read more
The agreement was seven years in the making. HFCs became common after ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) were phased out by the 1987 Montreal Protocol. Though the amount of HFCs released by humans into the atmosphere is small, HFCs are known as a “super greenhouse gas.” The chemical compound traps heat 1,000 times quicker than carbon dioxide.
170 countries agree to ban HFCs in landmark climate change agreement Read more
Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have discovered a chemical reaction to turn CO2 into ethanol, potentially creating a new technology to help avert climate change.
Scientists accidentally discover efficient process to turn CO2 into ethanol Read more
Negotiators from more than 170 countries on Saturday reached a legally binding accord to counter climate change by cutting the worldwide use of a powerful planet-warming chemical used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
Nations, fighting powerful refrigerant that warms planet, reach landmark deal Read more
