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Residents of the small north Alabama community of Belle Mina are breathing easier after reaching a settlement with a limestone quarry they say was disrupting their homes and places of worship.
The nation’s electric grid is stressed out. Unprecedented energy demands for large customers, such as data centers and cryptomines, are straining power supplies, raising electric rates in some regions, and stoking consumer advocates’ concerns that residential ratepayers could get stuck with the...
Himalayan villages are creating artificial glaciers to guarantee water for their crops in the spring.