(Natural News) Most of the solar panels installed in the U.S. and Europe are produced with coal-burning plants in China. There have been concerns that the solar industry’s reliance on Chinese coal will increase emissions over time. Manufacturers rapidly scale up the production of solar panels to meet the demand of the public, making the […]

(Natural News) China built more than three times as much new coal-fired power capacity in 2020 as all other countries in the world combined, according to a February report from the San Francisco-based organization Global Energy Monitor. The report showed that China commissioned a total of 38.4 gigawatts (GW) of new coal capacity last year, which was […]

(Natural News) The head of the United Nations has called to cancel all planned coal projects worldwide. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres exhorted nations to scrap their projects that use coal in order to end the “deadly addiction” to this fossil fuel. He emphasized that phasing out coal from the electricity sector is the “single most […]

(Natural News) When it comes to bringing back plants and wildlife to the barren wasteland of strip mines throughout Central Appalachia, conservationists have recently tried out a different approach. They built their environmental restoration program around Rocky Mountain elk that recently returned to their old stomping grounds. Large populations of elk used to live in […]