Environment

Energy storage will help solve

In Jamaica, we face unique energy challenges seldom encountered on a mainland system such as the US. We have fewer power stations, which limits our flexibility to meet sudden demand changes, and must deal with both grid fluctuations and the high cost of importing fuel... Read More

CTO announces winners of C'bean primary schools tourism writing competition
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Four Caribbean primary school students ranging in age from 8-12 will be honoured for excellence in tourism writing at next month's Climate Smart Sustainable Tourism Forum in St Kitts.... Read More

Former EPA head calls on Trump to heed the climate science
PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire. (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under US President Barack Obama, Gina McCarthy, is calling for President Donald Trump to listen to the experts after a federal climate report concluded the United States is already feeling the...... Read More

UOIT leads in geothermal thrust
OSHAWA, Canada — You will walk by the shallow but expansive pool of water in front of the library at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) thinking it's a fountain pool. You'd be wrong. It's the well field of a geothermal energy facility which provides heating...... Read More