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Piyush Goyal, minister responsible for three key energy portfolios — power, renewable energy and coal — held meetings with officers from the relevant departments and institutions recently. He assessed the progress of solar power projects and directed ...

Renewable Sources Provide Over 20% Of Global Power Production

CleanTechnica

Global renewable electricity energy capacity rose to a new record level last year — more than 1,560 gigawatts (GW), up 8% from 2012. More than 22 % of the world's power production now comes from renewable sources. Renewables currently meet almost ...

Is Renewable Energy Ready for Takeoff?

Businessweek

“It's completely nontoxic,” he says, and derived from an industrial foaming agent found in shampoo and carwash soap. The seven-year-old company is betting the substance can solve the biggest challenge for renewable energy: how to store it. The ...

This is how little it costs for states to go renewable

Grist

Federal researchers examined the 29 states where renewable portfolio standards (RPS's) have been in place for more than five years. They concluded that these standards, which require utilities to generate a certain percentage of power from clean ...

Human Habitat

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ET FEATURED ARTICLE World Environment Day 2014

Ecology Global Network

World Environment Day Barbados, a small Caribbean island at the cutting edge of the fight against climate change, will be hosting World Environment Day 2014, leading United Nations-wide efforts to draw attention to the plight of the world's small ...

Branch River paddlers enjoyed birds, learned about riparian ecology

Foster's Daily Democrat

MILTON MILLS — Despite forecasts of showers on Saturday morning, about 30 intrepid paddlers set forth on a 4-1/2mile scenic trip along the Branch River through lush wetlands to a pullout and picnic spot on Milton Three Ponds. The day turned pleasant ...

Summer's first Adventure Ecology Trip at Squam Lakes Association

WMUR Manchester

The SLA's director of conservation, Rebecca Hanson, along with Conservation Intern Emily Gross, will lead participants on a morning paddle for a discussion of aquatic ecology and the impacts of invasive aquatic species. "Aquatic plants play an ...

Reptiles, butterflies, ecology and more for kids at the Oakes Museum of ...

The Patriot-News

curatorclub215.jpg Oakes Museum of Natural History'€™s summer Curator Club at Messiah College begins this month. The Saturday morning science program for third through fifth graders exposes children to butterflies, reptiles, restoration ecology and ...

Water Power

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Gwyneth Paltrow: Mean words hurt water's feelings

Fox News

“I am fascinated by the growing science behind the energy of consciousness and its effects on matter,” she wrote on her website GOOP. “I have long had Dr Emoto's coffee table book on how negativity changes the structure of water, how the molecules ...

Poll: Should the Washington Township firefighters be disciplined for cold ...

The Star-Ledger

A 16-second video of volunteer firefighters in Washington Township participating in the "cold water challenge" using high-powered water hoses has made its rounds on YouTube and may cost those who participated. John Hoffman, the fire district chief in ...

Cedar City demonstrates serious stance on water conservation

St. George Daily Spectrum

Doug Hall, founder of Iron County Alliance of Taxpayers and chairman of a conservation committee for the Central Iron County Water Conservancy District, said the Cedar City Council passed an ordinance that became effective May 15 and set new penalties ...

High-water drama: Rains swell lakes, especially Minnetonka

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Heavy rains in recent weeks have swelled state lakes and rivers so much that swimmers and boaters — many beginning school summer vacations this weekend — are finding docks under water, boat launches flooded, beaches closed and wave-reducing ...