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EARLIER this year David Coburn, who sits in the European Parliament for the UK Independence Party, a Eurosceptic group,...

YOU cannot negotiate with nature. From the offshore wind farms of the North Sea to the solar panels glittering...

WIND farms and solar-energy plants have the advantage that their fuel is free, but the disadvantage that the availability...

IN THE mid-2000s Playpumps International, a charity, hit on a photogenic way of providing clean water to rural African...