Meeting COP28’s renewable energy goals will require vast land, creating conflicts with agriculture and rural communities. Agrivoltaics, the practice of combining farming and solar power, offers a ...

This drone photo shows Mount Hope Cemetery in Belleville, which was established in the late 1800s by Immanuel Evangelical Church. An estimated 27,000 people are buried in it. Joshua Carter Belleville ...

Horticulure professor and chair Ajay Nair plants bell peppers at the Alliant Energy Solar Farm at Iowa State University in June 2024. Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – ...

Across farm country, a quiet experiment is reshaping how fields earn their keep. By pairing flocks of sheep with rows of ...

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Some four-legged friends are taking over solar farms in Pittsylvania County as part of Dominion Energy’s efforts to find agricultural uses for its solar farms. Local ...

To keep solar farms from getting overrun with weeds, energy companies like Pivot Energy have been trading in traditional lawnmowers for an unconventional means: sheep. The field of agrivoltaics has ...

Widespread changes to state laws related to farming and environmental protections are advancing in the state legislature, including in the annual Farm Act as well as other bills. Agriculture is North ...

Solar farms like this one in Lexington County have sprung up in South Carolina, but some people are complaining about the expansion into rural areas. Courtesy High Flyer South Carolina legislators are ...

IBERIA PARISH — A parishwide ban on solar farming in Iberia Parish may soon come to an end, as the parish council prepares to introduce a draft of a new ordinance that would regulate and allow ...

On a rural stretch of highway between Evansville and Mt. Vernon, Indiana, you will see fields of black rectangles glittering in the sun. "We'll call it 'true construction' began in May 2024," said Mat ...

Flying north from the City Hall helipad, it was hard to shake the feeling that Los Angeles never really ends. Downtown skyscrapers and Dodger Stadium parking lots gave way to lush foothill suburbs ...

Belleville officials talked to local "partners" and submitted letters of support from eight civic leaders in preparing the city's application for state incentives to build a solar farm at Mount Hope ...