Farida Hussain

2 months ago | theenergymix.com | Farida Hussain |Victoria Foote

As much as 8% of the electricity Canada generates is sent south of the border, enough to power some six million homes in the United States. Net exports rose over the past decade, and north–south transmission connections between Canada and the United States are more numerous than east–west connections between provinces.

2 months ago | theenergymix.com | Farida Hussain |Fabiano Maisonnave

For the last few years, climate scientists, environmentalists and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been talking up the first U.N. climate conference to be held in the Amazon. The largest tropical forest in the world stores huge amounts of planet-warming greenhouse gases, making it crucial in the world’s fight against climate change.