Broken and worn-out solar panels can be recycled, but it's not easy. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 ...

MARION—As the call to go green continues, and solar panels appear more and more on housetops and in fields, what happens in a quarter century when all those panels expire and become heaps of useless ...

The growing importance of wind and solar energy to the U.S. power grid, and the rise of electric vehicles, are all key to the nation's growing need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, lower carbon ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In Odessa, Texas, workers at a startup called SolarCycle unload trucks carrying ...

As the world faces urgent climate challenges, governments worldwide are pledging to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, ...

Australia's rooftop solar industry has renewed calls for a mandatory recycling scheme to deal with the growing problem of solar panel waste. Only about 10% of panels are currently recycled. The rest ...

YUMA, Ariz. — Sunlight beats down on a graveyard for dead solar panels in Yuma, Ariz. hundreds stacked in neat piles, waiting for their next life. The great majority of worn and damaged panels are ...

A recent study has found that India will generate over 11 million tonnes of solar waste by 2047 if it does not scale up ...

Discover what happens to old solar panels and how solar panel recycling in Australia is shaping a cleaner, circular energy ...

It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 to 30 years, solar panels wear out. Over the years, heating and cooling cycles stress the materials. Small cracks ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Anurag Srivastava, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) It’s hard work soaking ...