The world's solar power generating capacity will grow by between 200 and 400 percent over the next five years, with Asia and other emerging markets overtaking leadership from Europe, a European ind

Italy's Enel Green Power (EGP) has won power supply contracts for three wind projects with a total capacity of 193 megawatts in Brazil where it aims to expand in the growing green energy market, EG

Italy's booming solar power market is expected to grow nearly four times to 30 gigawatts of capacity by 2020 as part of incentive-driven efforts to fight climate change, the head of Italy's top utility said.

Italy's solar market, the world's second-largest after Germany, has rapidly grown since 2007 when the government boosted production subsidies, attracting the world's biggest makers of photo

An invasive alien weed, silverleaf nightshade, is threatening cotton and wheat crops in Syria and Iraq and could spread to Lebanon and Jordan, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.

More than 60 percent of the farmland in Syria, growing mainly cotton and wheat, has been infested with the weed, originally from the American tropics, which sucks nutrients from

Italy's total installed photovoltaic capacity may reach 7,000 megawatts by the end of June due to a rush to sign up for expiring incentives, a senior official at Italy's state energy services agency GSE said.

"I think we can arrive at 7,000 megawatts at the end of June," Gerardo Montanino, director of GSE's operating division told Reuters on the sidelines of a photovoltaic conference in norther

Italy's southern region of Basilicata wants to become self-sufficient in power supplies by 2020 by boosting its renewable energy capacity by more than fivefold to about 1,600 megawatt, regional authorities said.

Basilicata with a population of about 600,000 people consumes 3,000 gigawatt hours of electricity a year and at present covers half of its needs with its own output generated mostly at