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Republished from nytimes.com By Brad Plumer WASHINGTON — The Energy Department is closing an office that works with other countries to develop clean energy technology, another sign of the Trump administration’s retreat on climate-related activities after its withdrawal from the Paris agreement this month. The 11

Republished from nytimes.com By Eugene Linden In tiny Lesotho, a landlocked kingdom in southern Africa, about one-third of its estimated two million people spent much of the past two years in danger of starving because of the lingering effects of a drought. That is just the

Republished from nytimes.com By Michael Kimmelman The wind over the canal stirred up whitecaps and rattled cafe umbrellas. Rowers strained toward a finish line and spectators hugged the shore. Henk Ovink, hawkish, wiry, head shaved, watched from a V.I.P. deck, one eye on the boats, the

Republished from cleantechnica.com By Saurabh Mahapatra Indian Railways is going all out to reduce its fuel costs and adopt solar power in a major way. Apart from planning large-scale solar power projects and rooftop solar power systems, the world’s fourth-largest railway network is planning to install

Republished from vox.com By Vox Creative The city of Detroit has a long history intertwined with the auto industry, a lively music scene, and a thriving urban culture. When the economy collapsed, much was talked about the loss of that economic promise. But what many don’t

Republished from huffingtonpost.com By Alexander Kaufman Charles Geisler, a sociologist at Cornell University, spent much of his career researching where poor people go when rich corporations swoop in and buy the land out from under their feet. But his focus began to shift in 2005, after