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Jordan's Azraq becomes world first clean energy refugee camp.

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How Scottish wind power beat Trump but lost the war.

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Federal Environment Minister pitching carbon plan for Saskatchewan.

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No matter what Trump does, big cities pressing for cleaner cars.

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'Solar goldmine': Sydney tapping just 1 percent of a stellar resource.

The scale of Australia's untapped solar energy resources has been laid bare with a study of the City of Sydney finding as little as...

Large-scale solar industry takes off in Australia as 12 new plants secure finance.

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As utility solar grows in Virginia, so do tensions with rooftop installers.

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‘Nature is your lover, not your mother’: Meet ecosexual pioneer Annie Sprinkle.

Women The porn star-turned-sex educator is at the vanguard of a new queer movement combining sex and ecology that is all about being at one...

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