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Energy
Cuba’s long-ailing power supply fails
4:21
Makaa or charcoal is often used in cooking methods in Kenya and other countries in Africa.
Energy
The push to end harmful cooking methods worldwide
6:52
An offshore gas terminal is lit up amid the Atlantic Ocean as houses lay on the beachfront between the sea and the Senegal River, bottom, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, Jan. 18, 2023.
Energy
Europe looks to Senegal for new energy supply. But what’s in it for the Senegalese?
Guyana faces risks from climate change that include rising sea levels that could eventually submerge the capital Georgetown.
Energy
Guyana’s discovery of oil reserves has the nation split between boosting the economy and preserving the environment
A coal-fired power station in Witbank, South Africa , Monday, Oct. 11, 2021.
Energy
Scheduled blackouts roll South Africa into electricity crisis
Shopkeepers and workers wait for electric power at a market following a power breakdown across the country, in Lahore, Pakistan, Jan. 23, 2023.
Economics
Lights out in Pakistan as energy-saving move backfires
The beach at the popular tourist resort of Puerto Peñasco in the state of Sonora, Mexico, September 2018.
Energy
Mexico’s clean energy plan could run into trouble at leaders’ summit
After the discovery of commercial quantities of oil in 2006, Hoima, Uganda, is being referred to as “Oil City,” Hoima, Uganda, November 2022.
Energy
Why African countries like Uganda are investing in fossil fuels
Traditional firewood and pressed sawdust bricks used to be a cheap way to heat your home in Latvia. But with inflation and soaring demand, wood heat has tripled in cost so far this year — and winter hasn't yet begun.
Energy
Latvians brace for harsh winter under new austerity measures to lessen dependency on Russian energy
Mini EV cars seen in Zhumadian, China.
Science & Technology
Electric vehicles are gaining popularity across China as govt creates incentives
City view at McCulloh apartments at Druid Hill Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, June 2019.
Climate Change
Rental housing stock in the US faces huge challenges adapting to climate change
view of the city
Energy
Solar power is the ‘only business that’s booming’ amid financial and electricity crises in Lebanon, experts say
The Krechba gas plant in Algeria's Sahara Desert, about 720 miles south of the capital, Algiers, Dec. 14, 2008.
Borders
Spain and Algeria at odds over Western Sahara, energy and migration
A motorcyclists watches as an employee of a fuel stationin fills petrol, in Mumbai, India
Energy
India, China growing markets for shunned Russian oil
Berat Haznedaroğlu, director of the Istanbul Microalgae Biotechnologies Research and Development Center at Boğaziçi University, stands by a racetrack algae pool, a motor to one side.
Energy
This Turkish lab is turning algae into jet fuel
Port cranes load a climate friendly LNG, liquefied natural gas, powered container ship at the import and export harbor in Hamburg, Germany
Energy
Europe’s new liquified gas infrastructure puts climate targets in question
A train passes by Republika Power Plant in town of Pernik, Bulgaria, April 21, 2022. The only nuclear power plant, generating over a third of Bulgaria’s electricity, runs on uranium from Russia.
Ukraine
EU proposes oil ban after bloc’s largest economy drops opposition
A construction worker walks across a mirage created on a road due to very hot weather in New Delhi, India
Environment
Heat wave sparks blackouts, questions on India’s coal usage
Ghana has been producing commercial oil since 2010.
Business, Economics and Jobs
As global oil prices surge, some African countries may see a silver lining
A natural gas power plant of RWE AG in Lingen, Germany
Ukraine
Can heat pumps help bring peace to Ukraine?
Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 2' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, northern Germany
Energy
The invasion in Ukraine could mean less reliance on energy from Russia, analyst says
The white facade of the Living Lab in Sweden with a light on in the upstairs window.
Climate Change
This ‘living lab’ in Sweden experiments with the future of sustainable cities 
A coal-fired power station in Witbank, South Africa
Climate Change
World leaders agree to help South Africa phase out coal
A caravan of migrants head north towards the US-Mexico border, as they depart from Tapachula, Mexico
Top of The World
Migrants set up camp under Del Rio bridge along US-Mexico border
Nuclear reactors of No. 5, center left, and 6 look over tanks storing water that was treated but still radioactive, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
Energy
Plan to dump Fukushima’s radioactive water into ocean causes outcry
In this Jan. 16, 2020, file photo an uniper coal-fired power plant and BP refinery steam beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
The Big Fix
What Germany can teach the US about quitting coal
A crowd of protesters
What Germany’s energy revolution can teach the US
Customers wait while a fuel dispenser machine is fixed at a gas station in Caracas, Venezuela, April 23, 2020.
COVID-19
Doctors wait hours to fill tanks as Venezuela faces fuel shortages
Kentucky mining supply company
Environment
After coal: A new book and documentary chronicle ‘stories of survival in Appalachia and Wales’
Four men stand outside in a valley near a river bed
Small hydropower plants threaten Montenegro’s last free-flowing rivers in a bid for cleaner energy
uchimizu event
Energy
How Japan keeps its cool when temps are high
Multiple white windmills dot the blue ocean.
Climate Change
America’s windiest spot looks to harness the ocean winds with some British help
Downtown Atlanta
Environment
How Atlanta plans to get to 100% green energy by 2035
Rainforest cleared for palm oil plantation
Climate Change
Converting forests into palm oil plantations is ‘total devastation’ for the planet
A man wearing a hard hat is silhouetted against old heavy windowpanes in a factory.
Climate Change
Poland is a coal country. But for how long?
A man in mining gear exits a shaft. Signs in Polish flank the opening.
Climate Change
Polish artists turn coal into ‘black gold’ as the mining industry shifts
forest
Environment
How a forest became Germany’s poster child for a coal exit
coal power plant in germany burns dirty
Business, Economics and Jobs
Before coal disappears from Germany, more villages will
Hampshire solar power
Environment
Here comes the sun: How Hampshire College moved to 100 percent solar energy
South-central Wyoming has some of the strongest winds in the United States. The Department of Energy estimates that by 2030, Wyoming has the potential to power the equivalent of 3.4 million homes.
50 States
America’s leading coal state looks to the wind
Wood scraps
Environment
The UK’s move away from coal means they’re burning wood from the US
Workers install panels at a solar farm built by Cypress Creek Renewables in Laurinburg, North Carolina. The company has cancelled projects in 10 states since new tariffs were implemented.
Business, Economics and Jobs
The early impact of solar tariffs: Fewer American projects, fewer American jobs
Andrea Carolina and Desikan Sundararajan with Statoil, along with Dirk Richter, founder of Quanta3 (left to right), install a pilot methane detector at a Statoil well pad at the Eagle Ford Shale natural gas site in Texas.
Environment
Engineers compete to detect methane leaks, a powerful climate pollutant
Solar panels
Technology
Jobs in solar energy fall for the first time in seven years
Environment
Europe’s investment in offshore wind is paying off — for the US
Port Operations head Barry Denness stands in front of massive, newly-minted wind turbine blades at Siemens's new plant in Hull, UK. “(They're) in service for 25 years in the North Sea, not the most hospitable of conditions," he says. "Hence the reason why
Environment
What’s fueling Britain’s offshore wind revolution? Technology, subsidies and an old fishing hub.
A rig (L) surrounds the top of one of the chimneys of Battersea Power Station as demolition work is carried out, in London, Oct. 2, 2014.
Economics
Why the UK has an easier time than the US divorcing from coal
Technician Alexis Portalatin stands next to rooftop solar panels he is connecting to a new Tesla battery storage system the San Juan suburb of Guaynabo. The storage system will allow the panels to operate separately from the power grid and supply electric
Economics
Hurricanes blew away Puerto Rico’s power grid. Now solar power is rising to fill the void.
A hill of coal sits under a shelter at the Prosper-Haniel coal mine. The mine is closing after 150 years.
Environment
In Germany, miners and others prepare for a soft exit from hard coal
Graduation celebrations at Harvard
Environment
Can a spreadsheet help crack the climate challenge? These Harvard students hope so.
A section of the Hambach lignite mine in Germany's Rhineland coal fields, whose coal-fired power plants, run by power giant RWE, are one of Europe's largest sources of CO2 emissions.
Environment
Germany talks a good game on climate, but it’s still stuck on coal
Cleaning up power lines in Puerto Rico
Development
Renewable energy and resilient microgrids could help rebuild Puerto Rico
Rick Perry
Environment
How do you lead a government agency you once said should be abolished?
China says it will invest another $361 dollars in renewable energy over the next four years and create 13 million new jobs in the sector, building on previous massive investments. The country already has the largest capacity of solar p
Environment
Donald Trump sees the future in coal. China sees the future in renewables. Who’s making the safer bet?
After an extremely warm first half of the year, global surface temperatures were heading for a third-straight record warm year in 2016. This NOAA map from December shows record warm temperatures (red) and record cold (blue) through the first 11 months of
Environment
2016 brought more record temperatures. So what climate course will the US and Trump set in 2017?
Texas Tech climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe is one of the US's leading figures on communicating about climate change with skeptical audiences. She says she'd only talk to president-elect Donald Trump if she were asked, but if she were, she'd do what she
Environment
Can Trump be reached on climate by talking with him about other things? Maybe …
Demonstrators against the Dakota Access oil pipeline block a road near North Dakota's Standing Rock Reservation in October. The pipeline would cross historic Native land and pass under the Missouri River, the source of the local water supply.
Environment
It’s not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their biggest stand in decades.
Organic flow battery
Technology
A breakthrough may make the mega flow battery commercially viable in the near future
Sammis power plant
Environment
An Ohio power company wants to reverse the deregulation it once fought for
Shanghai smog
Environment
IMF: ‘True cost’ of fossil fuels is $5.3 trillion a year