(EnviroNews World News) — Berne, Switzerland — On December 20, 2019, Switzerland shut down its Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant as part of a move that will put an end the country’s dependence on nuclear energy. Even though the station was only in operation for 46 years, it created the equivalent…
(EnviroNews World News) — India, a target of President Donald Trump’s wrath when he announced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement (Paris Accord), is moving away from coal. That was evident on June 10, 2017, when the country’s government-owned Coal India Limited announced it…
(EnviroNews World News) — Azraq, Jordan — The newly activated two-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant at the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan is the first refugee camp in the world to be powered by a renewable energy facility. The plant started running May 17, 2017, and will provide…
(EnviroNews World News) — Chornobyl, Ukraine — Three decades after the disastrous nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, the site is once again set to produce electricity, but not from atomic reactors — this time from solar panels. Business Insider (BI) reported that a small 1.5-megawatt (MW)…
(EnviroNews World News) — North Rhein Westphalia, Germany — The Prosper-Haniel hard coal mine, slated to be shut down in 2018 when government subsidies run out, is being repurposed to become a giant battery for excess power created by renewable energy sources. Located in North Rhein Westphalia, the…
(EnviroNews World News) — The winds of change are blowing strong in Denmark as the shift to wind power enabled the Danes to create 97 gigawatts of electricity on Feb. 22, 2017. That’s enough to power 10 million European homes. During that same day, Europe generated 18.8 percent…
(EnviroNews World News) — EnviroNews has reported on the controversial environmental record of billionaire Bill Gates. From holdings in Monsanto to his plutonium pipe dreams, Gates’ philosophies on energy and technology are subject to extreme scrutiny. However, Gates may have just pulled part of the solution to the…
(EnviroNews World News) — A video has been going viral on Facebook, racking up nearly six million views so far, of a massive wind turbine exploding, catching fire, and crashing and burning to earth, with a long seemingly slow-motion tumble — like a mighty giant falling slowly to…
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