We so seldom cook together, let alone eat together these days. Amber's class reminded me all over again what a generous act it is. When you let others into your kitchen, you let them into your life. And when you do so, they cease to be strange, they cease to be different, they cease to be other.

"Energy is available in abundance and we have all the technologies -- proven and ready to be rolled out -- that we need to harness it."

The Sahara desert was once fertile grassland. This fact has been common knowledge in the scientific community for some time, but scientists are still grappling with what changed.

Huge dust storms, like the ones that blanketed Sydney twice last week, hit Queensland yesterday and turned the air red across much of eastern Australi...

It has been assumed that global warming would cause an expansion of the world's deserts, but now some scientists are predicting a contrary scenario in...

Desertec seeks to transform Saharan Africa into a solar hub for Europe by constructing a supergrid of concentrating solar thermal plants (CSP) on 6,50...

The Guardian reports that a proposed solar project that would take up the space of a "small country" in the Sahara could provide all of Europe's power...