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From Yahoo! News: WASHINGTON — If an extreme solar storm aimed at the Earth hits in just the right way, it could put interconnected electrical grids around the world at serious risk, experts say.

Scientists up-cycle the microwave that used to make lunch to develop a cheap method using more abundant and less toxic materials to make nanocrystal semiconductors.

This rugged solar charger is powerful enough to charge up a smartphone in two hours, yet small enough to fit in your pocket.

An extreme solar storm from the active sun could affect wide regions of the world, perhaps entire continents, scientists say. Can they be predicted?

One way that subsistence farmers can break out of the poverty cycle is through growing cash crops, and this low-cost solar pump could help make that happen.

In a surprising situation I now find myself with a $20,000 solar system, that I never had to pay a cent for!

U.S. businesswoman Katherine Lucey is working with a network of women entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa to sell inexpensive, household solar energy systems. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Lucey explains how solar electricity can transform lives, particularly those of rural women and gi...

There's are a variety of alternative sources of energy out there that break away from the traditional, environment-dampening methods used, some of them better