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While Costa Rica is a small country, with a popular of about 4.8 million people, it has made great strides in its use of renewable energy. Last year 80 per cent of the energy used came from hydropower, while geothermal energy made up about 10 per cent ...

Solar sails set course for a new journey into renewable energy. Perry Carroll of The Solar Cloth Company explains why his flexible solar sail panels can generate energy not only at on sea but on millions of spaces on land. Perry Carroll, founder of The ...

Ask any theoretical economist to map out the demise of renewable energy, and she'll grab a napkin, a pen, and draw a couple of supply and demand curves that'll make things strikingly clear: Oil has the upper hand. When oil is cheap, people use more of it.

Renewable energy advocates were jubilant. "This ruling is a step toward providing the certainty needed for future development of grid-scale renewables - like wind power and hydropower - as the state's current program expires this year," said Anne ...

On the occasion of the International Day of Forests, the Madurai Division of the Forest Department launched two initiatives in a bid to involve public in its conservation and awareness activities. Launching the initiatives on Gandhi Memorial Museum ...

Muscat: Edward Ridd, a Year 6 student, secured the first place in the Dragons' Den Project at the British School Muscat (BSM) on Sunday afternoon. The topic for this project was saving 'Our Precious Planet.' Stay ahead of the rest and download our free ...

California's Lotusland gardens mix whimsy, ecology. AP PHOTOS: Lotusland gardens mix whimsy, conservation. Pamela Hassell/AP. Ganna Walska altered the more classical and formal plants with mass plantings of cacti and other succulents outside this ...

Juliet Simpson is an aquatic ecologist. She studies water – who lives in it, how it's used, what humans do to it and, most importantly, how it affects our environment. Simpson, who works with the MIT Sea Grant College Program, is the featured speaker ...