China – the biggest producer of solar energy in the world

Despite the bragging rights, its 77.42 gigawatts of solar energy is just a drop of water in its bucket of energy requirements and represents just 1% of the country’s total energy demands. China has made giant strides in implementing clean energy and is slowly weaning off its economy from lustre of cheap coal power. According…

Elon Musk decides remain in Trump’s advisory council for the greater good

Change has to come from the inside … A boycott movement which registered more than 200,000 account deletions from employees, convinced Travis Kalanick, Uber’s CEO, to end his tenure at U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic advisory council. However, SpaceX and Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk has yet to be convinced as how why he should withdraw…

Trump’s attempts to muzzle the scientific community will receive a very public backlash

Apart from the Women’s March, all those who oppose Trump’s attempt to block the flow of the dissipation of scientific knowledge and data will march against Trump’s policies. Access to scientific knowledge and data cannot be allowed to be obfuscated or placed beyond the reach of every citizen of this planet. As a result of…

U.S. Agricultural Department rescinds gag order after vocal outcry from the scientific community and the public

The U.S. Agriculture Department had temporarily been ordered to not share its research regarding the effects and impact of climate change with taxpayers, the very people whose money is used to fund the research. Thankfully it didn’t last long: it was just day before yesterday that the United States’ Department of Agriculture had issued an…

EPA officials disclose Trump’s plan of pulling climate change data from the EPA’s website

This is despite gag order. Scientists are planning to take their protest to the streets in March. Despite receiving a gag order, officials from the U.S Environmental Protection Agencies have disclosed to Reuters that their paymasters have instructed them to remove this page from its website. Meanwhile on the official White House website, a page devoted to…

The director of FBI, CIA and National Intelligence admit that Russian hackers hacked the 2016 U.S. presidential elections

The intelligence community of the United States have now agreed that Russia manipulated the results of the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections. What and how they will now use this intelligence will determine the fate of president-elect Donald Trump. James Comey, the Director of the FBI as well as James Clapper, the Director of the National…