Forget roaring lawnmowers and fuel-guzzling tractors. Today's solar companies are turning to flocks of sheep to trim grass and control weeds under solar panels. These eco-friendly grazers easily ...

Agriculture is a part of India's workforce with almost half of the people working in this field. It also uses a lot of water, 80 per cent of the freshwater that India has.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 60% of Iowa's power comes from wind. Farmers can earn extra cash by leasing small sections of farms for power production.

A growing clash in California’s Imperial Valley highlights a statewide dilemma: how to balance the expansion of clean energy and preserve the farmland. Solar takes over soil: The Imperial Irrigation ...

Our drive to get clean energy means that companies are starting to invest in larger, more powerful solar farms. These facilities use solar panels to generate renewable energy from sunlight, giving ...

As the sun emerges from behind the clouds above a former farm in Germantown, rows of solar panels begin to hum. The soft buzz is barely audible over the sounds of children and coaches shouting on ...

High on the Tibetan Plateau, a sea of photovoltaic panels is quietly rewriting what a power plant can be. China’s biggest solar farm is not only feeding gigawatts into the grid, it is cooling soils, ...

Private companies want to build solar farms in Fayette County, but they can't. There are no local laws prohibiting solar farms in Lexington. There are also no laws allowing them. Silicon Ranch, a ...

This story was originally published by The Conversation. Drive through the plains of Iowa or Kansas and you’ll see more than rows of corn, wheat and soybeans. You’ll also see towering wind turbines ...