Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:20:44 +0000
Investigators in Kansas are trying to determine what caused the worst leak in the 12-year history of the Keystone Pipeline.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:28:48 +0000
The Keystone pipeline has been shut down after a leak was discovered in northeast Kansas last week. 14,000 barrels of oil were released.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 15:40:48 +0000
In one of the nation’s largest efforts to date for communities that are facing an urgent threat from climate change, 3 Native tribes will receive $75 million to move away from coastal areas or rivers.
Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:10:00 +0000
It’s always difficult to select winners from the field of nominations submitted to POWER for its annual awards, and this year was no exception. The Wudongde Hydropower Station was the big winner, while
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:52:34 +0000
A nearly two-day-long boil water order that shuttered schools and businesses and affected as many as 2.2 million customers in Houston—the nation’s fourth-largest city— was caused by a power outage stemming from the failure of two city-owned transformers. The incident began on Nov. 27 at 10:30 a.m. when “a ground trip and current overload” tripped […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 17:30:24 +0000
One of the world’s biggest sources of renewable energy is hydropower, which generates around 16% of the global electricity supply. As the world looks to meet net-zero targets, hydropower is slated to play a key role in combating climate change. Just 37% of the world’s 246 longest rivers remain free-flowing — without any human-made dams, […]
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:00:23 +0000
Sometimes we think that providing safe water for communities is a given. We’re finding, however, that cleantech innovation is absolutely necessary to provide clean drinking water for communities around the world.
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:41:26 +0000
The world’s largest event centered around climate change is shining a spotlight on one of the most-pressing debates in the Arab world—what to do about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Egypt is the host for this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27 (Conference of Parties), in Sharm El Sheikh, running Nov. 6-18. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:46 +0000
Farming with nature rather than against it seems like common sense, but industrial agriculture has a hard hold on global food production. It’s time to break the systems that perpetuate harmful growing practices.
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:31:48 +0000
The United States has a great network of waterways that is used for municipal, agricultural, and industrial purposes. With millions of miles of pipelines and conduits, the opportunity to harness that wasted energy with conduit hydropower is tremendous. In a recent study at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, there was great […]