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What Caused the Storm That Brought Dubai To a Standstill? 63
Average World Incomes To Drop By Nearly a Fifth By 2050, Study Says 111
World's Coral Reefs Hit By a Fourth Mass Bleaching Event, NOAA Says 56
Emissions Dropped 1.8% Every Year in California's Bay Area. Researchers Credit EVs 164
California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery 167
Cloud Brightening Research Begins in California 60
Saudi Arabia 'Forced To Scale Back' Plans For Desert Megacity 199
March Marks Yet Another Record In Global Heat 158
One of Disneyland's Longest-Running Attractions is Ditching Fossil Fuels 99
US Energy Department Announces 'Blueprint' for Slashing Emissions From Buildings and Reducing Energy Use 76
Wait, Does America Suddenly Have a Record Number of Bees? 77
US Invests $20 Billion More to Finance Clean-Energy Projects 86
Heat-Trapping CO2, Methane Levels In the Air Last Year Spiked To Record Highs 81
Amazon Still Has a Serious Plastic Waste Problem in the US 36
Only 57 Companies Produced 80% of Global Carbon Dioxide 167
Record Heat in Europe, Asia Closes Another Extremely Warm Month For Planet 91
After Outer Space, 93-Year-Old William Shatner Leads Cruise to Antarctica 51
Bill Gates Says Texas Shows America's Clean-Energy Future 120
'Garbage Lasagna': Dumps Are a Big Driver of Warming, Study Says 61
Methane From Landfills Is a Big Driver of Climate Change, Study Says 128
A Faster Spinning Earth May Cause Timekeepers To Subtract a Second From World Clocks 118
California's Successful Dam-Removal Project Continues 120
Say Hello To Biodegradable Microplastics? 60
A Problem for Sun-Blocking Cloud Geoengineering? Clouds Dissipate 57
Security and Climate Change Drive a Return To Nuclear Energy as Over 30 Nations Sign Summit Pledge 89
Geologists Reject Declaration of Anthropocene Epoch 41
Higher Temperatures Mean Higher Food and Other Prices 96
E-Waste Is Growing 5x Faster Than It Can Be Recycled, Says UN 74
Only Seven Countries Meet WHO Air Quality Standard, Research Finds 56
Global Ocean Heat Has Hit a New Record Every Single Day For the Last Year 130
Did the Plastic Industry Knowingly Push Recycling Myths For Decades? 101
Playing Thriving Reef Sounds On Underwater Speakers 'Could Save Damaged Corals' 31
'Larger Than Everest' Comet Could Become Visible To Naked Eye This Month 54
No Big North Sea Fossil Fuel Country Has Plan To Stop Drilling in Time For 1.5C Goal 151
How China Came To Dominate the World in Solar Energy 101
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' To Officially Be Removed from Food Packaging, FDA Says 39
Earth Has Its Warmest February Ever - the 9th Record-Setting Month in a Row 91
Microscopic Plastics Could Raise Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack, Study Says 57
Satellite To 'Name and Shame' Worst Oil and Gas Methane Polluters 53
The Arctic Ocean Could Be 'Ice-Free' Within the Decade, Researchers Warn 117
New Ratings for the 'Greenest' Car in America Might Surprise You 199
How AI is Taking Water From the Desert 108
Helium Discovery In Northern Minnesota May Be Biggest Ever In North America 34
Carbon Emissions Reached Record High in 2023, IEA Says 72
Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Began Melting In Mid-20th Century, Study Finds 60
US Court Stalls Energy Dept Demand For Cryptocurrency Mining Data 103
Microplastics Found In Sediment Layers Untouched By Modern Humans 45
The Sun Just Launched Three Huge Solar Flares in 24 Hours. 50
Switzerland Calls On UN To Explore Possibility of Solar Geoengineering 92
Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of EPA's 'Good Neighbor' Rule on Power Plant Pollution 98
Ocean Temperatures Are Skyrocketing 110
Could Solar Water Heaters Become Popular Again? 123
Scientists Resort To Once-Unthinkable Solutions To Cool the Planet 205
California Banned Single-Use Plastic Bags. Now It's Tossing More Plastic. 192
Computer Simulations of Atlantic Ocean Currents Finds Collapse Could Happen in Our Lifetime 128
Clean Jet Fuel Startup Fires Up New Carbon Converter 41
After 1.5-Degree Temperature Rise, What Happens Next? 128
Recycling Plants Start Installing Trash-Spotting AI Systems 60
SpaceX Launches NASA's PACE Satellite To Study Earth's Oceans, Air and Climate 7
World's First Year-Long Breach of Key 1.5C Warming Limit 302
EPA Tightens Rules On Some Air Pollution For the First Time In Over a Decade 59
Making Farming More Climate-Friendly Is Hard. Just Ask Europe's Politicians. 186
The EU Proposes Slashing Pollution 90 Percent by 2040 95
Across America, Clean Energy Plants Are Being Banned Faster Than They're Being Built 200
The Fossil Fuel Industry Knew About Climate Change Since 1954 266
Could We Fight Global Warming With A Giant Umbrella in Outer Space? 194
'Massive Amounts' of Carbon Sequestered for Centuries Released By Clearing Indonesia's Peatland 130
Climate Change Cripples Panama Canal. Fixing it Could Take Years 148
Exxon Takes Activists To Court Over Emissions Proposal 77
'For Truckers Driving EVs, There's No Going Back' 153
Crime Rings Are Trafficking in an Unlikely Treasure: Sand 53
Cop28 Deal Will Fail Unless Rich Countries Quit Fossil Fuels, Says Climate Negotiator 184
Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster Than Scientists Previously Estimated, Study Finds 86
Human 'Behavioral Crisis' At Root of Climate Breakdown, Say Scientists 300
Can Pumping CO2 Into California's Oil Fields Help Stop Global Warming? 83
America Cracks Down on Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Facilities 36
2023 Was Hottest Year Ever Recorded Globally, US Scientists Confirm 114
Beaver Ponds May Exacerbate Warming In Arctic, Scientists Say 95
Earth Shattered Global Heat Record In 2023 227
The Land is Steadily Sinking Up and Down America's Atlantic Coast 85
AI and Satellite Imagery Used To Create Clearest Map Yet of Human Activity At Sea 5
Germany's Emissions Hit 70-Year Low As It Reduces Reliance on Coal 220
2023 Will Be Remembered as the Year Climate Change Arrived 159
20% of America's Plants and Animals are At Risk of Extinction 56
Massive Waves Pound Some California Coast Cities, Causing Floods and Injuries 78
Earth Was Due for Another Year of Record Warmth. But This Warm? 205
Top Scientists on the One Mystery on Earth They'd Like To Solve 64
A Sinking Nation is Offered an Escape Route. But There's a Catch. 99
UK Students Launch Barclays 'Career Boycott' Over Bank's Climate Policies 47
Joe Biden Plans To Ban Logging in US Old-Growth Forests in 2025 181
Ski Resorts Battle For a Future as Snow Declines in Climate Crisis 255
How a Surge in Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon 25
Will AI Be a Disaster for the Climate? 100
CNN Shares Hopeful Signs for Our Fight Against Climate Change 130
Bill Gates Predicts 'Supercharged' AI Innovation on Climate, Healthcare Issues 41
Livestock Surprise Scientists with Their Complex, Emotional Minds 73
Why the US Is Pumping More Oil Than Any Country in History 207
Pakistan Uses Artificial Rain in Attempt To Cut Pollution Levels 29
New Regulations Will Turn California Wastewater To Drinking Water 109
Hurricane Larry Dropped Over 100,000 Microplastics Per Square Meter Per Day, Study Finds 74
UK To Introduce Carbon Tax on Steel Imports from 2027 62
India's Flooded Farmlands Mask a Water Crisis Deep Underground 106
Volcano Erupts in Iceland Near Power Plant, in 'Worst-Case Scenario' 111
Could Hot Rocks Help Solve the Climate Crisis? 110
Can We Help Fight the Climate Crisis with Stand-Up Comedy? 84
Is Climate-Friendy Flying Possible? The US Tries Subsidizing Sustainable Aviation Fuels 138
Biggest Solar Flare In Years Temporarily Disrupts Radio Signals On Earth 28
Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees 155
Low-Frequency Sound Can Reveal That a Tornado Is On Its Way 54
COP28 Nations Agree for First Time To Transition Away From Fossil Fuels 74
US Climate Bill 'Ignites New Zeal' Around the World for Government Climate Efforts 47
The Climate Summit Starts To Crack a Tough Nut: Emissions From Food 90
Cop28 Draft Agreement Calls for Fossil Fuel Cuts But Avoids 'Phase-Out' 73
UK's First Carbon Capture Plant Turns CO2 Into Jet Fuel 119
Hidden Impacts of Ferocious Volcanic Eruption Finally Revealed 20
Saudi-Led Fight Against COP28 Deal 'Outrageous', Shows 'Panic' Officials Say 151
'Unprecedented Mass Coral Bleaching' Expected in 2024, Says Expert 50
Global Carbon Emissions From Fossil Fuels To Hit Record High 70
India Calls Out Inequalities at COP28 Climate Summit 85
Earth on Verge of Five Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points, Scientists Warn 234
Western US Wildfires Undo Two Decades of Air Quality Progress 32
US Joins in Other Nations in Swearing Off Coal Power To Clean the Climate 204
Plants May Be Absorbing 20% More CO2 Than We Thought, New Models Find 81
Why Mexico Wants You to Virtually Adopt an Axolotl Salamander 25
Investing $30 Billion, the UAE Announces the World's Largest Climate-Focused Investment Fund 62
Deal To Keep 1.5C Hopes Alive is Within Reach, Says Cop28 President 218
Files Suggest Climate Summit's Leader Is Using Event To Promote Fossil Fuels 139
American Airlines To Turn 10K Tons of CO2 Into Buried Carbon Blocks 100
Germany To Compensate Power Users Hit by Grid Bottlenecks 100
Could Airports Make Hydrogen Work As Fuel? 168
Brazil Signs On To Global Climate Deal To Triple Renewable Energy 56
World's Biggest Iceberg on the Move After 30 Years 35
Toxic Air Killed More Than 500,000 People in EU in 2021, Data Shows 109
Deaths From Coal Pollution Have Dropped, But Emissions May be Twice as Deadly 83
Aftershocks Can Occur Centuries After Original Earthquake, Says Study 37
World's Richest 1% Emit As Much Carbon As Bottom Two-Thirds, Report Finds 214
Forest Service Plans Carbon Dioxide Storage on Federal Lands 108
World Facing 'Hellish' 3C of Climate Heating, UN Warns Before Cop28 279
Why Bill Gates Remains Hopeful about Innovative New Climate Solutions 64
USDA's Plant Hardiness Zone Map Shows Half the Country Has Shifted 42
EU Allows Use of Controversial Weedkiller Glyphosate for 10 More Years 43
EU Agrees Law To Curb Methane Emissions From Fossil Fuel Industry 34
A Supernova 'Destroyed' Some of Earth's Ozone For a Few Minutes In 2022 53
Delhi Plans To Unleash Cloud Seeding in Its Battle Against Deadly Smog 35
The Lego-Like Way To Get CO2 Out of the Atmosphere 200
Countries Meet in Kenya To Thrash Out Global Plastic Pollution Treaty 30
America's First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility Opens in California 206
2023 on Track To Be the Hottest Year on Record, Say Scientists 166
North Greenland Ice Shelves Have Lost 35% of Their Volume In Last Half-Century, Study Finds 113
Will Sodium Batteries Become an Alternative To Lithium? 129
Bill Gates Urges 'Impatient Optimism' on Climate Change Innovations 79
Spacecraft Metals Left In the Wake of Humanity's Path To the Stars 20
US Approves Massive Windfarm Project Off the Coast of Virginia 72
Asteroid Dust Caused 15-Year Winter That Killed Dinosaurs, Scientists Say 135
The Race To Destroy PFAS, the Forever Chemicals 36
Scientists Call Out Rogue Emissions From China at Global Ozone Summit 60
UK Regulator Trying To Block Release of Shell North Sea Documents 61
Global Shift To Clean Energy Means Fossil Fuel Demand Will Peak Soon, IEA says 176
Nestle, Volvo Among 130 Companies Urging COP28 Agreement To Ditch Fossil Fuels 75
Rapid Ice Melt in West Antarctica Now Inevitable, Research Shows 142
'Solar for Renters' Offers Americans Netflix-Style Subscriptions to Clean Energy 39
Plans Abandoned for First 1,300-Mile Carbon-Capture Pipeline Across the US 85
21 Species Moved From 'Endangered' to 'Extinct' in America 34
Pipeline Dreams: The Desert City Out To Surpass Phoenix By Importing Water 125
EU To Crack Down Further on Microplastics After Glitter Ban 49
California Begins World's Largest Dam Removal/River Restoration Projects 135
Google's AI-Powered 'Project Green Light' Speeds Traffic, Reduces Fuel Consumption and Carbon Emissions 93
Long-Dormant Viruses Are Now Waking Up After 50,000 Years as Planet Warms 171
Climate-Driven Heat Extremes May Make Earth Too Hot for Billions of Humans 227
Hydro Dams Are Struggling To Handle the World's Intensifying Weather 59
Antarctica Has Lost 7.5tn Tonnes of Ice Since 1997, Scientists Find 71
People Send 20 Billion Pounds of 'Invisible' E-Waste To Landfills Each Year 106
Half a Billion Cheap Electrical Items Go To UK Landfills in a Year, Research Finds 63
Climate Crisis Will Make Europe's Beer Cost More and Taste Worse, Say Scientists 118
EU Will Do 'as Much as Possible' To Drive Out Fossil Fuels, Climate Chief Says 71
Microplastics Detected in Clouds Hanging Atop Two Japanese Mountains 39
Can These Fungus-Studying Scientists Make the Planet More Resilient to Climate Change? 49
Germany Will Keep Keep Its Coal Power Plants on Standby For Another Winter 189
The Ozone Hole Above Antarctica Has Grown To Three Times the Size of Brazil 85
September Broke the Global Heat Record by a 'Gobsmackingly Bananas' Margin 142
UN Report Urges Global End To Fossil Fuel Exploration by 2030 120
Report Claiming Net Zero Will Cost UK Trillions Retracted Due To 'Factual Errors' 118
US Energy Department Funds 'Energy Earthshots' to Speed Clean-Energy Innovations 77
Will EVs Send OPEC Into a Death Spiral? 206
Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress 89
Heat Pumps Twice As Efficient As Fossil Fuel Systems In Cold Weather 196
Six Young People Take 32 Countries To Court Over Climate Change 219
How a Thinktank Got the Cost of Net Zero for the UK Wildly Wrong 124
Swiss Glaciers Lose 10% of Their Volume in Two Years 65
Bids For ISS Demolition Rights Are Now Open, NASA Declares 102
Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Lowest Winter Maximum On Record 55
New Study Could Upend How We Think About the Ozone Layer and Health 30
California Startup Hopes to Harvest Desalinated Drinking Water from the Ocean Floor 135
French Drillers May Have Stumbled Upon a Mammoth Hydrogen Deposit 121
Almost Everyone in Europe is Breathing Toxic Air 114
Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry To Earth 66
Antarctic Sea-Ice at 'Mind-Blowing' Low Alarms Experts 200
How Exxon Tried to Undermine Climate Change Science 70
Oil Companies Granted Licences To Store Carbon Under the North Sea 39
Conditions On Earth May Be Moving Outside the 'Safe Operating Space' For Humanity 323
To Build Their AI Tech, Microsoft and Google are Using a Lot of Water 73
Startup Building Zinc-Based Alternatives to Lithium Batteries Granted $400M Loan from the US 97
Cleanup Begins at Burning Man Site: a Few Abandoned Cars, Plus a Burned-Out RV 42
UN Warns World Will Miss Climate Targets Unless Fossil Fuels Phased Out 224
The World Has Just Experienced the Hottest Summer On Record -- By a Significant Margin 255
'Alarming' Scale of Marine Sand Dredging Laid Bare by New Data Platform 64
It's Time To Put Oceans To the Test in the Climate Fight, Scientists Say 98
EU Prepares To Push For 'Global Phase-Out' of Fossil Fuels at COP28, Draft Document Shows 207
Invasive Species Cost Humans $423 Billion Each Year and Threaten World's Diversity 57
After Hurricane-Caused Flooding, Some EVs Exposed To Saltwater Caught Fire 193
No Exit: Rains Close the Roads In and Out of Burning Man 163
Population Collapse Almost Wiped Out Human Ancestors, Say Scientists 41
India Seeks To Top Its Moon Landing with Spacecraft To Study Sun 18
Japan is Preparing For a Massive Earthquake 15
Shell Scraps Its $100 Million-a-Year Carbon Offset Plan 175
EU Fossil Fuel Burning for Electricity Fell To Lowest on Record in 2023, Data Shows 38
Polluted Air Shortens Human Lifespans More Than Tobacco, Study Finds 104
There's a Vast Source of Clean Energy Beneath Our Feet. And a Race To Tap It. 193
New EU Climate Change Rules Anger Bloc's Farmers 181
Could Sand Be the Next Lithium? Searching for Better Renewable Energy-Storing Batteries 135
Tropical Rainforests Could Get Too Hot For Photosynthesis, Scientists Warn 249
Germany Set To Miss Net Zero By 2045 Target as Climate Efforts Falter 188
G20 Poured More Than $1T Into Fossil Fuel Subsidies Despite Cop26 Pledges - Report 74
The US is Getting Hit By Extreme Weather From All Sides 281
Bacteria That 'Eat' Methane Could Slow Global Heating, Study Finds 55
'Zero-Degree Line' Rises To Record Height As Heatwave Continues In Europe 75
Pioneering Wind-Powered Cargo Ship Sets Sail 70
Increasing Wildfires Could Negate the Effects of Forest Carbon Offsets 94
EPA's New Definition of PFAS Could Omit Thousands of 'Forever Chemicals' 30
UK Homes Install 'Record Number' of Solar Panels and Heat Pumps 98
Judge Rules in Favor of Montana Youths in Landmark Climate Decision 120
Amazon Loses Key Backer Four Years Into Plan To Eliminate Carbon Emissions 19
'The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think' 342
For Carbon-Capture Experiment, Researchers Dye Canada's Halifax Harbor Pink 40
US To Fund a $1.2 Billion Effort To Vacuum Greenhouse Gases From the Sky 111
Early Humans Wiped Out in Europe By 'Glacial Cooling,' Study Suggests 61
An Unintended Test of Geoengineering is Fueling Record Ocean Warmth 62
July Was World's Hottest Month on Record, Climate Scientists Say 132
Floods, Fires and Torrential Rains Further Bedevil Europe 68
Gamma Ray Detection Marks Highest Energy Light From the Sun 34
UK Offshore Wind at 'Tipping Point' as Funding Crisis Threatens Industry 125
US Air Force Builds $5B Climate-Resilient 'Base of the Future' with Robot Dogs and AI Security 103
Is Natural Gas Actually On Par With Coal for Greenhouse Gas Emissions? 238
America's Offshore Wind Potential is Huge but Untapped 142
Capella's Earth-Imaging Satellites Are Deorbiting Faster Than Expected 17
Pollution Cuts Have Diminished 'Ship Track' Clouds, Adding To Global Warming 134
Supermarket Plastic Bag Charge Has Led To 98% Drop in Use in England, Data Shows 197
UNESCO Says Venice Should Be Added To Heritage Danger List 50
Salesforce Executive Shares 'Four Ways Coders Can Fight the Climate Crisis' 79
Antarctica is Missing an Argentina-Sized Amount of Sea Ice This Year 124

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