Earth Stories for 2017

UK Enjoyed 'Greenest Year For Electricity Ever' in 2017 72
The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder 125
UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt', Says Former Head of Pentagon Alien Program 300
Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? 669
Experts Cast Doubt on 'Alien Alloys' in the New York Times' UFO Story 206
Elon Musk Shows Off the Tesla Roadster That SpaceX Will Send Beyond Mars 118
Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum 210
California Poised To Hit 50 Percent Renewable Target a Full Decade Ahead of Schedule 247
France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 259
Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago 176
Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon 314
Norway Becomes First Country To Switch Off FM Radio 183
Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year 177
Why Meteoroids Explode Before Hitting the Earth 58
China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship 150
Toyota's New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy From Manure 75
The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning 231
Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn 379
Air Pollution Harm To Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe, Warn Doctors 132
'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' 468
New Evidence Points To Icy Plate Tectonics On Europa 67
The World's Astonishing Dependence On Fossil Fuels Hasn't Changed In 40 Years 243
Nations Agree To Ban Fishing in Arctic Ocean For At Least 16 Years 96
Silicon Valley Billionaires Award $22 Million in 'Breakthrough Prizes' 23
CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video 163
Russia Says It Will Ignore Any UN Ban of Killer Robots 132
Bacteria Found On ISS May Be Alien In Origin, Says Cosmonaut 240
375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests 236
DNA Analysis Finds That Yetis Are Actually Bears 121
Scientists Call For Ban On Glitter, Say It's a Global Hazard That Pollutes Oceans 121
Could Collapsing Antarctic Glaciers Raise Sea Levels Sooner Than Expected? 418
Amazon: Heat From Data Centers Will Be Used as a Furnace 52
Lightning Can Trigger Nuclear Reactions, Creating Rare Atomic Isotopes 75
Flowing Water On Mars' Surface May Just Be Rolling Sand Instead 81
Night Being 'Lost' To Artificial Light 119
Russia Detects a Significant Radiation Spike In Mountains Close To Soviet-Era Nuclear Plant 125
Upsurge in Big Earthquakes Predicted for 2018 88
What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change 624
'Robots Are Not Taking Over,' Says Head of UN Body of Autonomous Weapons 77
Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year 235
Virgin Hyperloop One Eyes India For Possible High-Speed Routes 38
Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away 175
More Than 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Issue 'Warning To Humanity' 405
New Study Suggests We Don't Understand Supervolcanoes 105
Asgardia Becomes the First Nation Deployed in Space 176
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses As Much Energy As Your House In a Week 227
How Two Scientists Accurately Predicted Global Warming in 1967 218
NASA Discovers Mantle Plume That's Melting Antarctica From Below 244
EPA Approves Release of Bacteria-Carrying Mosquitoes To 20 States 133
New Technology Should Be Neither Feared Nor Trusted 61
The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal 719
Florida Attempts the Largest Hydraulic Restoration Project In the World To Save the Everglades 98
Paradise Papers Leak Reveals Apple's Secret Tax Bolthole 174
The US Has Destroyed A Critical Sea Ice-Measuring Satellite 283
Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years 181
Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause 415
Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France 202
The Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Plunged Earth Into Catastrophic Winter 103
Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade 322
Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? 153
We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand 341
Carbon Pollution Touched 800,000 Year Record in 2016, WMO Says 354
Study Links Rapid Ice Sheet Melting With Distant Volcanic Eruptions 117
Electric Cars Emit 50 Percent Less Greenhouse Gas Than Diesel, Study Finds 239
Italy Proposes Phasing Out Coal Power Plants By 2025 123
Astronaut Paul Weitz Dies At 85; Veteran of Skylab and Shuttle Missions 15
Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead 165
Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes For Human Colonisation of Moon 140
Turning the Optical Fiber Network Into a Giant Earthquake Sensor 15
Flying Insects Have Been Disappearing Over the Past Few Decades, Study Shows 178
Ophelia Became a Major Hurricane Where No Storm Had Before 180
Nobel Prize Winner Argues Tech Companies Should Be Changing The World 154
Startup Plans To Clean Up Cigarette Butts Using Crows 205
World's First 'Negative Emissions' Plant Has Begun Operation 218
Evidence Suggests Updated Timeline Towards Yellowstone's Supervolcano Eruption 320
SpaceX Successfully Landed the 12th Falcon 9 Rocket of 2017 118
A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up In Antarctica 270
Tokyo Preparing For Floods 'Beyond Anything We've Seen' 98
EPA Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule 316
Carbon-Emitting Soil Could Speed Global Warming, Warns 26-Year Study 203
100K Lose Power As America Faces Its Third Hurricane In Three Weeks 119
Neanderthal Ancestors May Be To Blame For Why You Can't Get a Tan 118
Massive 70-Mile-Wide Butterfly Swarm Shows Up On Denver Radar System 47
Missouri Considers Hyperloop Route Between St. Louis and Kansas City 154
Bold Eagles: Angry Birds Are Ripping $80,000 Drones Out of the Sky 279
Hawaii Approves Telescope On Volcano Sacred To Indigenous People 251
Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel By Rocket, Right Here on Earth 318
Can We Reduce Cow Methane Emissions By Breeding Low-Emission Cattle? 224
Most Powerful Cosmic Rays Come From Galaxies Far, Far Away 97
Seismologist Explains Mexico's Back-To-Back Earthquakes 50
Mathematical Formula Predicts Global Mass Extinction Event in 2100 394
Diesel Cars Contribute To 5,000 Premature Deaths a Year In Europe, Says Study 215
There's a Logic To How Squirrels Bury Their Nuts 93
Trump's Officials Suggest Re-Negotiating The Paris Climate Accord 244
Poor Diet Is a Factor In One In Five Deaths, Global Disease Study Reveals 110
Elon Musk Releases Supercut of SpaceX Rocket Explosions 61
Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked To a Whole Lot of Neurological Disorders 209
Hyperloop One Reveals 10 Strongest Potential Hyperloop Routes In the World 142
Climate Change Could Wipe Out a Third of Parasite Species, Study Finds 240
Why Bats Crash Into Windows 117
Uber Gives Free Rides to Shelters During Hurricane Irma 38
Swarms Of Flying Robot Bees Could Monitor Weather, Collect Data 60
What's Causing The Hurricanes? 442
China Builds World's Largest EV Charging Network With 167,000 Stations 103
El Nino's Absence Is Causing An Active Hurricane Season 148
UN Aviation Agency To Call For Global Drone Registry 47
Could 'Re-Engineering' Earth Help Ease the Hurricane Threat? 262
Are We Being Watched? Tens of Other Worlds Could Spot the Earth 94
Spinning Metal Sails Could Slash Fuel Consumption, Emissions On Cargo Ships 170
Plastic Fibers Found In 83 Percent of World's Tap Water, Study Reveals 210
A Powerful Solar Storm Is Bringing Hazards and Rare Auroras Our Way 72
Hurricane Irma Reaches 185 MPH, Trailing Only Allen As Strongest Atlantic Storm On Record 318
Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass 105
The Solar Eclipse of 2017 Destroyed Lots of Rental Camera Gear 140
Finland To Introduce Law Next Year Phasing Out Coal 176
Dozens Of Drones Surveil Houston For Damage After Hurricane Harvey 34
Germany Unveils World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser 49
The Oldest Known Human Remains In the Americas Have Been Found In a Mexican Cave 138
NASA's Plan To Stop A Supervolcano from Destroying The Earth's Climate 153
Alaska's Permafrost Is Thawing 324
Elon Musk Posts First Photo of SpaceX's New Spacesuit 142
China Relaunches World's Fastest Train 118
A Global Fish War is Coming, Warns US Coast Guard 192
The Health Benefits of Wind and Solar Exceed the Cost of All Subsidies 432
Popular Pesticides Keep Bumblebees From Laying Eggs 137
Astronomers Detect Four Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting The Nearest Sun-Like Star 102
Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible 292
Moon Had Magnetic Field At Least a Billion Years Longer Than Thought, Says Study 41
Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity 452
Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered 257
Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study 430
Tests Show Workers At Hanford Nuclear Facility Inhaled Radioactive Plutonium 158
Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study 416
Hyperloop One's Full-Scale Pod Reaches 192 MPH In New Nevada Track Test 249
NASA Is Looking For Someone To Protect Earth From Aliens -- And the Job Pays a Six-Figure Salary 164
National Solar Observatory Predicts Shape of Solar Corona For August Eclipse 16
After Emissions Scandal, Volkswagen Pledges Charging Stations Across The US 142
Scientists Genetically Engineer the World's First Blue Chrysanthemum 75
Solar-Eclipse Glasses On Amazon May Not Meet NASA's Safety Requirements 131
Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future 233
A New Study Shows the Moon's Interior Could Contain Water 69
World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland 252
Amazon Report Predicts Pet Translation Devices By 2027 143
New Research Shows Humans Could Outrun T. Rex 257
The Aurora Borealis May Be Visible Tonight In The Northern US 42
Microsoft 'Cuts The Cord' With A Local Power Utility To Pursue Greener Energy 62
Private Company Plans To Bring Moon Rocks Back To Earth In Three Years 66
Era of 'Biological Annihilation' Is Underway, Scientists Warn 359
Only 100 Companies Are Responsible For 71 Percent of Global Emissions, Says Study 180
World's Cheapest Energy Source Will Be Renewables Within Three Years 474
Google's New Startup Heats Your Home With Energy From Your Lawn 168
Japan's Population Falls At Fastest Rate Since 1968 295
Researchers Build American Eels an 'Eelevator' 52
Court Blocks EPA Effort To Suspend Obama-Era Methane Rule 214
Norway To Ban the Use of Oil For Heating Buildings By 2020 164
Large-Scale Study 'Shows Neonic Pesticides Harm Bees' 102
A Million Bottles a Minute: World's Plastic Binge 'As Dangerous as Climate Change' 216
Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements 376
Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments 298
World's First Floating Windfarm To Take Shape Off Coast of Scotland 123
New Study Confirms the Oceans Are Warming Rapidly 332
'Infarm' Startup Wants To Put a Farm In Every Grocery Store 85
Los Angeles Tests Reflective 'Cool Pavement' On Streets 123
What Happens When Geoengineers 'Hack The Planet'? 193
Former Slashdot Contributor Jon Katz Believes He Can Talk To Animals 171
FCC Grants OneWeb Approval To Launch Over 700 Satellites For 'Space Internet' 89
ESA Approves Gravitational-Wave Hunting Spacecraft For 2034 49
Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 229
It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix 286
A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves 273
Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice 172
Scientists Declare End to Global Coral Reef Bleaching Event 156
Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change 289
NASA Finds Evidence Of 10 New Earth-sized Planets 63
Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate 375
Life On Mars: Elon Musk Reveals Details of His Colonisation Vision 229
New Evidence That All Stars Are Born In Pairs 90
Arctic Climate Change Study Canceled Due to Climate Change 155
Multi-Million Dollar Upgrade Planned To Secure 'Failsafe' Arctic Seed Vault 53
Entrepreneurs Fight Air Pollution With CO2-Reducing 'CityTrees' 190
The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 403
SpaceX Will Launch Secretive X-37B Spaceplane's Next Mission 83
Google Maps Is Being Used To Track Air Pollution In Oakland and Other Cities 24
Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe 213
NASA Will Create Fake Red And Green Clouds Near Virginia 83
Third Gravitational Wave Detected From Black-Hole Merger 3 Billion Light Years Away 83
61 Mayors Commit To Adopt, Honor and Uphold Paris Climate Accord After US Pulls Out 247
Germany Detects Emissions Cheat Software In Audi Models 93
A NASA Spacecraft Will Head Straight For the Sun -- Farther Than Any Probe Before It 78
SpaceX To Refly a Dragon Cargo Spacecraft 41
Technology Is Making the World More Unequal; Only Technology Can Fix This 145
DNA From Ancient Egyptian Mummies Reveals Their Ancestry 97
Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Others Ante Up Another $30 Million To Change.org the World 60
A Third of the Nation's Honeybee Colonies Died Last Year 135
NASA To Make Announcement About First Mission To Touch Sun 85
Scientists Develop Technology That Burns Natural Gas With No CO2 Emissions 163
8 In 10 People Now See Climate Change As a 'Catastrophic Risk,' Says Survey 384
Renewable Energy Powers Jobs For Almost 10 Million People 132
Sperm Stored In Space Produces Healthy Baby Mice On Earth 53
Remote Pacific Island Is the Most Plastic-Contaminated Spot Yet Surveyed 132
Arctic Stronghold of World's Seeds Flooded After Permafrost Melts 178
Chemists May Be Zeroing In On Chemical Reactions That Sparked the First Life 121
Rising Seas Set To Double Coastal Flooding By 2050, Says Study 206
Climate Change is Turning Antarctica Green, Say Researchers 150
Humans Accidentally Made a Space Cocoon For Ourselves Out of Radio Waves 137
Where Have All the Insects Gone? 229
Many Nations Pin Climate Hopes On China, India As Hopes For Trump Fade 335
SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Satellite Atop Falcon 9 Rocket 85
French President-Elect Macron Urges Action On Climate Change 174
US Life Expectancy Can Vary By 20 Years Depending On Where You Live 292
UAE To Drag Iceberg From Antarctica To Solve Water Shortage Set To Last 25 Years 350
Dormant Diseases Frozen In the Ice Are Waking Up 173
India Aims To Make Every Car Electric By 2030 In Bid To Tackle Pollution 118
Trump Order Helps Offshore Drilling, Stops Marine Sanctuary Expansion 163
Chinese, European Space Agencies In Talks To Build a Moon Base 88
New Study Suggests Humans Lived In North America 130,000 Years Ago 239
Adidas Creates Trainers Made From Plastic Ocean Debris in Bid To End Pollution 83
A Caterpillar May Lead To a 'Plastic Pollution' Solution 71
Scientists Consider 'Cloud Brightening' To Preserve Australia's Great Barrier Reef 108
'Detergent' Hydroxl Molecules May Affect Methane Levels In The Atmosphere 68
Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? 280
Light Sail Propulsion Could Reach Sirius Sooner Than Alpha Centauri 171
Ocean Currents Are Sweeping Billions of Tiny Plastic Bits to the Arctic 49
Louisiana's Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Disappearing Coastline 307
Broadband Expansion Could Trigger Dangerous Surge In Space Junk 129
Physicists Detect Whiff of New Particle At the Large Hadron Collider 180
Researchers Discover New Species of Giant Spider 51
Google Earth Gets a New Home On the Web 46
Dingo Wins The World's Most Interesting Genome Competition 14
For the First Time On Record, Human-Caused Climate Change Has Rerouted an Entire River 256
New Solar-Powered Device Can Pull Water Straight From the Desert Air 202
Nearby Ocean Worlds Could Be Best Bet For Life Beyond Earth, Says NASA 59
Portland Commits To 100 Percent Renewable Energy By 2050 88
Large Near-Earth Astroid Will Fly Past Earth On April 19 44
NASA Puts the Earth Up For Adoption 60
'Unprecedented' Bleaching Damages Two-Thirds Of Australia's Great Barrier Reef 130
Wolves May Be 'Re-Domesticating' Into Dogs 95
There's an Earth-like Planet With an Atmosphere Just 39 Light-years Away 149
Earth-Sized Telescope Set To Snap First Picture of a Black Hole 103
Public Crowd-sourcing Finds New Exoplanets 15
Ancient Cannibals Didn't Turn To Cannibalism Just For the Calories, Study Suggests 96
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Begins Its Final Mission Before Plunging Into Saturn 86
We're Creating a Perfect Storm of Unprecedented Global Warming 620
'Arctic World Archive' Will Keep the World's Data Safe In an Arctic Mineshaft 71
Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water 111
An Unexpected Relationship Between Nuclear Power and Low Birth Weight 146
Manatee No Longer An Endangered Species 89
Robots Could Solve the Lionfish Ecological Disaster 20
SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket 260
Scientists Discover Way To Transmit Taste of Lemonade Over Internet 95

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