Renewable energy is changing more than the way electricity is generated. It is reshaping how homes, businesses, communities and entire countries think about energy security, cost, resilience and environmental sustainability. The essentials at a glance: In simple terms: renewable energy turns resources that nature continually replenishes — sunlight, wind, water, biological material and heat from…
Climate change does not mean that every flood, heatwave, hurricane or unusually cold day can simply be blamed on global warming. The relationship is more nuanced — and considerably more interesting. Human-caused climate change is altering the background conditions in which weather develops. A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, oceans are accumulating heat, sea…