MIT Technology Review How to Build a Solar Farm without Government SubsidiesMIT Technology ReviewJust outside the genteel English town of Flitwick, a field has been filled with a British first: the Clayhill solar farm is the nation’s only such facility to have been built without any form of government subsidy. Anesco, the company that designed…

Seeking Alpha ReneSola, Canadian Solar Focus On Plant-Building As New US Tariffs LoomSeeking AlphaA trio of solar energy stories are in the headlines that underscore difficulties panel makers are facing due to a recent glut that looks quite typical in this highly cyclical sector. Two of the stories reflect a trend that has panel makers…

Newsweek No, the Solar Eclipse Did Not Cause All These HurricanesNewsweekWhen Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas days after much of the continental United States experienced a historic total solar eclipse, a pastor in Washington state posed a question: Could the two natural phenomena be related? “What are the odds of …

Popular Mechanics The Military Could Be About to Make Solar Power Way BetterPopular MechanicsThat’s why it’s great news that the military is looking to increase its use of solar panels. The Department of Energy recently released a comprehensive look at the U.S. energy grid and concluded that the military needs to rely more on solar…

IFLScience Yes, Global Warming Could Be Causing Extreme Cold SnapsIFLScienceUnusually cold conditions bring out the climate change deniers, who ask how it can be so chilly if the world is warming up. Of course, a few days of inclement weather hardly refute a global trend, but according to one theory, higher temperatures might … and…

Futurism Here Are the US Cities Least Affected by Climate ChangeFuturismPortland is also one of the only cities with a working group tasked with reducing racial and economic inequality as it relates to potential climate-action policies — a key measure of a city’s ability to cope with natural disasters and climate change. and more »

Food and Water Watch Betting on Chaos: Financial Firms Seek to Cash In on Climate ChangeFood and Water WatchEarlier this month the Financial Times reported that a new climate change prediction market [subscription required] is being created in the United Kingdom. The market, similar to a sports betting book, is the “brainchild” of the financial…

Los Angeles Times Civil servants charge Trump is sidelining workers with expertise on climate change, environmentLos Angeles TimesInterior Department manager Joel Clement figured his new bosses in the Trump administration might disapprove of his climate–change-focused work protecting Alaskan villages from rising seas. But the reassignment slip Clement received in June stunned him …

Grist The Blacklist’s Megan Boone has a new target: climate changeGristBut that didn’t stop her from feeling anxious on a hot day this July when speaking out about climate change. Boone took the podium for a Moms Clean Air Task Force rally in Washington, D.C., clutching a speech she had written herself — and hired…

BBC News Climate change: Ministers should be ‘sued’ over targetsBBC NewsMinisters should tighten the UK’s official climate change target – or face the courts, the government’s former chief scientist has said. Prof Sir David King is supporting a legal case forcing ministers to shrink carbon emissions to zero by 2050. He …