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    New Solar Panel Recycling Facility Is Coming to Georgia

    New Solar Panel Recycling Facility Is Coming to Georgia

    Solarcycle, a company handling end-of-life solar panels, is opening a new solar panel recycling facility in Cedartown, Georgia.  According to the company, the upcoming 5-gigawatt facility will span 255,000 square feet and will eventually have the capacity to recycle around 10 million old solar panels annually, or as much as 30% of the country’s retired […]

    As COP29 Winds Down, Poorer Nations Reject Wealthy Countries’ Offer of $250B to Assist With Climate Crisis They Created

    As COP29 Winds Down, Poorer Nations Reject Wealthy Countries’ Offer of $250B to Assist With Climate Crisis They Created

    The COP29 United Nations Climate Conference extended into overtime on Friday, as the offer by the world’s richest countries of $250 billion annually by 2035 to assist poorer nations struggling with the most dire effects of the climate crisis was rejected as inadequate. “I’m so mad. It’s ridiculous. Just ridiculous,” said Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, […]

    Switzerland to Add More Solar Power to Rooftops and Highway Noise Barriers

    Switzerland to Add More Solar Power to Rooftops and Highway Noise Barriers

    In Switzerland, highway noise barriers surrounding the Oberland Autobahn near Wangen-Brüttisellen will soon provide solar power. Last year, Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office made the surfaces of highway noise barriers free and set out to cover 350 of them in solar panels. Swiss officials estimated that the arrays could generate 100 gigawatt hours of clean energy […]

    UNICEF: Extreme Heatwaves Will Impact 8x More Children by 2050

    UNICEF: Extreme Heatwaves Will Impact 8x More Children by 2050

    A new UNICEF report released on Wednesday to coincide with World Children’s Day has found that eight times more children will experience extreme heatwaves globally by 2050. According to The State of the World’s Children 2024, three megatrends will have powerful impacts on the lives of children between now and midcentury, including the environmental and […]