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Magnetic pole reversal and how it can flip your world

Is there a chance of a "flip flop" reversal in the earth's magnetic poles? Scientists have noticed some changes in the earth's magnetic field...

Desmond Tutu on climate change

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was one of the earliest moral voices linking climate change to human rights, calling it “the apartheid of our time”—a crisis created by the wealthy but suffered most by the poor.

An expert’s guide to buying LED lights

Free from UV light, mercury and pollutants LED lights can also save you up to 90% of the energy used by regular halogen light...

New 50MW solar park near Israel’s Timna copper mines seeks partners

The Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Initiative announced yesterday that a tender will be issued to set up and operate the Timna Solar Park, a new...

IRENA says: it’s not too late to turn to renewables

IRENA, the global renewable energy consortia with its headquarters in Abu Dhabi believes that though the clock of climate change is ticking, we still...

Will Qatar’s Passivhaus Baytna experiment perform in intense heat?

An energy-efficient house in Barwa City, Qatar will be put through its paces to see if it can perform to computer-modeled expectations. We first...

Feed-in tariffs – save, export, earn money

If you have been looking for ways to cut down on your energy spending while contributing to salvaging the environment, the government has offered...

Blowing Horn harvests wind energy with a multi-rotor turbine

Are you tired of seeing the same old giant wind turbines in a field or offshore? And do you worry about their impact on...

Water rights of Ireland and Jordan

Here is a cautionary tale of two very different countries which once shared a similar water use philosophy and usage patterns. The right photo...

ISIS captures Mosul Dam threatening floods with death and destruction

Sunni fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took over Iraq’s largest hydroelectric dam last Sunday, along with three towns and an...

How Siberia’s methane craters affect the whole planet

In 2011, scientists warned that giant plumes of methane gas could fast-track planetary warming. And now - a version of this prediction has come to pass in...

Scientists make spray-on solar cells efficiencies close to silicon

To date the most efficient way of making solar cells is using silicon. Now a team of scientists at the University of Sheffield in...

Eole’s double-duty turbines wick water from wind

Pull free, safe drinking water straight from the sky! The earth's atmosphere is a huge freshwater reserve, packed with 13,000 cubic kilometers of moisture, yet...

Jordan’s 52.2 MW Shams solar energy PV plant built with First Solar

Two years after passing its Renewable Energy and Efficiency Law (REEL) Jordan is moving forward with what will be the largest  largest solar photovoltaic...

Israel’s 420 MW leads the Middle East in solar installations by a landslide

While solar power plant installations jump to a new annual record this year, according to the Worldwatch Institute, global trends show that despite all the...

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Elon Musk’s flying Tesla Roadster is here. My 13-year-old son thinks it’s the future

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