Solar power isn’t all rainbows and puppies. In China, protesters have spent the past few days outside a solar panel plant, which they say polluted a nearby river.

A U.S. wind turbine company is suing a Chinese company for paying an employee of American Superconducter more than $1 million to steal wind turbine technology.

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China's also put $15 billion into Alberta's tar sands in the past year and a half.

We're going to keep hearing about Solyndra all next year.

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Remember how all those Brazilian rainforest activists kept getting murdered? Police say they've arrested two of the men responsible.

Solving the climate crisis also involves solving seasickness.

Tiny, fuel-efficient cars (this 1957 BMW Isetta!): winning the future by winning the past.