Republished from nytimes.com By Brad Plumer WASHINGTON — The Energy Department is closing an office that works with other countries to develop clean energy technology, another sign of the Trump administration’s retreat on climate-related activities after its withdrawal from the Paris agreement this month. The 11 staff members...
Republished from nytimes.com By Eugene Linden In tiny Lesotho, a landlocked kingdom in southern Africa, about one-third of its estimated two million people spent much of the past two years in danger of starving because of the lingering effects of a drought. That is just the latest...
Republished from nytimes.com By Michael Kimmelman The wind over the canal stirred up whitecaps and rattled cafe umbrellas. Rowers strained toward a finish line and spectators hugged the shore. Henk Ovink, hawkish, wiry, head shaved, watched from a V.I.P. deck, one eye on the boats, the other,...
Republished from cleantechnica.com By Saurabh Mahapatra Indian Railways is going all out to reduce its fuel costs and adopt solar power in a major way. Apart from planning large-scale solar power projects and rooftop solar power systems, the world’s fourth-largest railway network is planning to install solar...
Republished from vox.com By Vox Creative The city of Detroit has a long history intertwined with the auto industry, a lively music scene, and a thriving urban culture. When the economy collapsed, much was talked about the loss of that economic promise. But what many don’t know...
Republished from huffingtonpost.com By Alexander Kaufman Charles Geisler, a sociologist at Cornell University, spent much of his career researching where poor people go when rich corporations swoop in and buy the land out from under their feet. But his focus began to shift in 2005, after observing how...
Republished from nytimes.com By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich As the United States confronts global warming in the decades ahead, not all states will suffer equally. Maine may benefit from milder winters. Florida, by contrast, could face major losses, as deadly heat waves flare up in the...
Republished from fastcompany.com By Adele Peters “We want to create healthy employees,” Jose Diaz, cofounder and CEO of ByCycling, the startup that created the app, tells Fast Company. “We know that companies are willing to spend some money to create a healthy lifestyle for their workforce–that way,...
Republished from rollingstone.com By Eric Holthouse The worst predicted impacts of climate change are starting to happen — and much faster than climate scientists expected Historians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some snapshots: In just the past few...
Republished from washingtonpost.com By Michael Biesecker WASHINGTON -- For the first time in decades, the United States got more electricity from renewable sources than nuclear power in March and April. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said Thursday that electricity production from utility-scale renewable sources exceeded nuclear generation in...