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Solar panels became a powerful alternative for renewable energy a few years ago. But as technology advances, new alternatives ...

Solar panels and urban gardens are finally teaming up to transform rooftops into clean-energy food paradises. Researchers and city planners from New York City to São Paulo have discovered that when ...

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China’s biggest solar complex is not just feeding electricity into the grid, it is physically reshaping the land beneath it and the economy around it. By turning a harsh desert plateau into a test bed ...

Solar power has a dark side: panels are still built to be thrown away, and we risk creating a mountain of waste that locks away valuable minerals. The world already faces up to 250 million tonnes of ...