Spanish protest party Podemos teamed up Monday with a top US anti-austerity economist to launch a green energy plan which they said could create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Vying to drive out Spain’s governing conservative Popular Party in the year-end general election, Podemos turned for its energy investment programme to Robert Pollin, who has worked as an adviser to the US Department of Energy and the United Nations. In
More than 2,500 new wind turbines, amounting to 7.1 gigawatts (GW) of electricity production capacity, are now unlikely to be built in Britain because of a fast-tracked subsidy cut outlined by the new government. British energy minister Amber Rudd said an earlier than planned reduction in onshore wind subsidies was necessary to avoid spending more than required to meet Britain’s legally binding green energy targets. “We are reaching the limits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration argues in a new report that failure to act on climate change could cause an estimated 57,000 deaths in the United States from poor air quality by 2100. It says an estimated 12,000 people in 49 U.S. cities could die from extreme temperatures in 2100.
Contraceptives regularly make news stateside, but have you ever stopped to wonder how other nations regulate their availability?
When a 92-year-old Chilean woman was taken to the hospital after a fall recently, doctors performed a routine exam and were shocked when a hip X-ray revealed a 4.4-pound fetus filling her abdominal cavity.
