Tag Archive for: Hydroelectricity

For years, the state took as much water as it could from Lake Mead; now it plans to leave some in the reservoir.

The country's first minister says Scotland could become the 'world's first hydro-economy.'

While the superpower announces ambitious sustainability goals, it faces droughts and intensive energy needs.

For two weeks in Copenhagen last month climate negotiators debated carbon levels, emissions, and balancing the financial burden of saving the planet among developed and developing countries. Still, even as international leaders wrestled with the complex mix of geopolitics, science, economics, and diplomacy, another important ingredient in the climate crisis was barely mentioned: the effect of the warming planet on the Earth's freshwater.