Earth Stories for 2014

Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming 341
Belize's "Blue Hole" Reveals Clues To Maya's Demise 80
Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? 363
Life In Space, In More Than 12,000 Photos 24
What Northern Hemisphere Astronomers Are Missing From the Southern Hemisphere 104
Hot Springs At Yellowstone Changed Their Color Due To Tourist Activity 48
How a Massachusetts Man Invented the Global Ice Market 83
Massive Volcanic Eruptions Accompanied Dinosaur Extinction 78
NASA Video Shows What It's Like To Reenter the Earth's Atmosphere 75
Geoengineered Climate Cooling With Microbubbles 114
Satellite Captures Glowing Plants From Space 40
11 Trillion Gallons of Water Needed To End California Drought 330
Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography 191
Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do 222
Last Three Years the Quietest For Tornadoes Ever 187
The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse 401
Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site 465
Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015 75
U.S. Passenger Vehicle Fleet Dirtier After 2008 Recession 176
Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane 329
Asteroid Impacts May Have Formed Life's Building Blocks 46
New Mexico Levies $54M Against Energy Dept. For Violations At Nuclear Repository 36
The Ancestor of Humans Was an "Artist" 500,000 Years Ago 59
Ocean-Going Robot Fleet Completes Fish Tracking Mission 10
Pantry Pests Harbor Plastic-Chomping Bacteria 45
Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth 128
France Wants To Get Rid of Diesel Fuel 395
Shale: Good For Gas, Oil...and Nuclear Waste Disposal? 138
Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source 235
Scientists Develop "Paint" To Help Cool the Planet 145
Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies 307
How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles 186
Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak 145
Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate 367
Coal Plants Get New Lease On Life With Natural Gas 143
Toyota Names Upcoming Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car 194
MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate 323
How To Mathematically Predict Lightning Strikes 41
U.S. and China Make Landmark Climate Deal 285
Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy 488
'Dark Magma' Could Explain Mystery Volcanoes 77
Fukushima Radiation Nears California Coast, Judged Harmless 114
Earth's Oxygen History Could Explain "Darwin's Dilemma" In Evolution 78
Nevada Earthquake Swarm Increases Chance of Larger Quake 65
The Military's Latest Enemy: Climate Change 163
Americans Rejoice At Lower Gas Prices 334
We Are Running Out of Sand 264
Using Naval Logbooks To Reconstruct Past Weather and Predict Future Climate 102
Interviews: Ask CMI Director Alex King About Rare Earth Mineral Supplies 62
Japan's Annual Nuclear Drill Highlights Problems 43
UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault 695
Drones Over Greenland Give Insight To Pollution's Effects On Melting 81
Denmark Plans To Be Coal-Free In 10 Years 332
New Study Shows Three Abrupt Pulses of CO2 During Last Deglaciation 132
Imagining the Future History of Climate Change 495
Location of Spilled Oil From 2010 Deepwater Horizon Event Found 73
Black Swan Author: Genetically Modified Organisms Risk Global Ruin 432
Lava Flow In Hawaii Gains Speed, Triggers Methane Explosions 64
Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere 185
EU Sets Goal To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 40% By 2030 172
Pentagon Unveils Plan For Military's Response To Climate Change 228
Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks 147
Antiperspirants Could Contribute to Particulate Pollution 70
NASA Finds a Delaware-Sized Methane "Hot Spot" In the Southwest 213
NASA Study: Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed 295
Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? 652
Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming 423
Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America 276
Solar Could Lead In Power Production By 2050 167
Satellites Reveal Hidden Features At the Bottom of Earth's Seas 54
Bangladesh Considers Building World's 5th-largest Data Center In Earthquake Zone 65
35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska 292
Earth Gets Another Quasi-Moon 54
Aral Sea Basin Almost Completely Dry 151
Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity 232
Exxon and Russian Operation Discovers Oil Field Larger Than the Gulf of Mexico 201
Utilities Should Worry; Rooftop Solar Could Soon Cut Their Profit 517
Underwater Landslide May Have Doubled 2011 Japanese Tsunami 27
Catch Oil Polluters With Open Source Tools Using the Homebrew Oil Testing Kit 52
Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun 173
Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food 385
Obama Presses China On Global Warming 261
Study Links Pacific Coastal Warming To Changing Winds 207
Hundreds of Thousands Turn Out For People's Climate March In New York City 200
Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels 635
Solar Powered Technology Enhances Oil Recovery 82
Ozone Layer Recovering But Remains Threatened 59
To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars 491
UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 427
US Rust Belt Manufacturing Rebounds Via Fracking Boom 191
How China's E-Waste Capital Is Trying To Clean Itself Up 15
Tesla Plans To Power Its Gigafactory With Renewables Alone 260
Restoring Salmon To Their Original Habitat -- With a Cannon 147
Apparent Meteorite Hits Managua, Nicaragua, Leaving Crater But No Injuries 107
Surprise! More Than Twice As Much Mercury In Environment As Thought 173
Newly Discovered 60-foot Asteroid About To Buzz By Earth 68
Two Explorers Descend Into An Active Volcano, and Live to Tell About It 66
California Blue Whales Rebound From Whaling 91
Newly Discovered Asteroid To Pass Within Geostationary Orbit Sunday 101
Welcome To Laniakea, Our New Cosmic Home 67
Out of the Warehouse: Climate Researchers Rescue Long-Lost Satellite Images 136
New Computer Model Predicts Impact of Yellowstone Volcano Eruption 121
Study: Antarctic Sea-Level Rising Faster Than Global Rate 302
The Passenger Pigeon: A Century of Extinction 108
DNA Reveals History of Vanished "Paleo-Eskimos" 57
Feds Want Nuclear Waste Train, But Don't Know Where It Would Go 258
Iceland Raises Volcano Aviation Alert Again 38
Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches' 266
New NRC Rule Supports Indefinite Storage of Nuclear Waste 191
Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report 708
Climate Scientist Pioneer Talks About the Furture of Geoengineering 140
Numerous Methane Leaks Found On Atlantic Sea Floor 273
Iceland Stands Down On Travel Alert: From Orange To Red and Back Again 29
Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? 191
Magnitude 6.0 Quake Hits Northern California, Causing Injuries and Outages 135
Western US Drought Has Made Earth's Crust Rise 90
Eruption Of Iceland's Bardarbunga Raises Travel Alert to Red 38
New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W 338
Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth 134
Cause of Global Warming 'Hiatus' Found Deep In the Atlantic 465
Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical 303
Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead 521
Iceland's Seismic Activity: A Repeat Show for Atmospheric Ash? 69
The Royal Society Proposes First Framework For Climate Engineering Experiments 174
Fighting Invasive Fish With Forks and Knives 180
No, a Huge Asteroid Is Not "Set To Wipe Out Life On Earth In 2880" 123
How California's Carbon Market Actually Works 97
California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla 327
NASA's Greenhouse Gas Observatory Captures 'First Light' 143
Chile Earthquake Triggered Icequakes In Antarctica 21
Gas Cooled Reactors Shut Down In UK 120
Toxic Algae Threatens Florida's Gulf Coast 99
Ask Slashdot: Can Tech Help Monitor or Mitigate a Mine-Flooded Ecosystem? 123
Brookings Study Calls Solar, Wind Power the Most Expensive Fossil Alternatives 409
Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave Yields Huge Trove of Animal Remains 31
Paint Dust Covers the Upper Layer of the World's Oceans 141
Ancient Worms May Have Saved Life On Earth 54
Man-Made "Dead Zone" In Gulf of Mexico the Size of Connecticut 184
Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell 387
Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland 181
Greenpeace: Amazon Fire Burns More Coal and Gas Than It Should 288
The Truth About Solar Storms 91
Earth In the Midst of Sixth Mass Extinction: the 'Anthropocene Defaunation' 342
How a Solar Storm Two Years Ago Nearly Caused a Catastrophe On Earth 212
One Trillion Bq Released By Nuclear Debris Removal At Fukushima So Far 190
Lawrence Krauss: Congress Is Trying To Defund Scientists At Energy Department 342
Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate 377
Oso Disaster Had Its Roots In Earlier Landslides 64
White House Approves Sonic Cannons For Atlantic Energy Exploration 272
Japan To Offer $20,000 Subsidy For Fuel-Cell Cars 156
Australia Repeals Carbon Tax 291
Giant Crater Appears In Northern Siberia 122
The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record 552
Walter Munk's Astonishing Wave-Tracking Experiment 55
Fighting Climate Change With Trade 155
Blueprints For Taming the Climate Crisis 389
Climate Change Skeptic Group Must Pay Damages To UVA, Michael Mann 497
Mapping a Monster Volcano 105
Ancient Bird With Largest Wingspan Yet Discovered 55
IBM Tries To Forecast and Control Beijing's Air Pollution 63
Study: Whales Are Ecosystem "Engineers" 64
Study: Global Warming Solvable If Fossil Fuel Subsidies Given To Clean Energy 385
Solar-Powered Electrochemical Cell Used To Produce Formic Acid From CO2 133
Hierarchical Membrane For Cleaning Up Oil Spills 32
Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing 304
NASA Launching Satellite To Track Carbon 190
Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change 567
Germany's Glut of Electricity Causing Prices To Plummet 365
Air Pollution Can Disrupt Pollinating Insects By Concealing the Scent of Flowers 67
Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly 461
NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen 547
Supreme Court Upholds Most EPA Rules On Greenhouse Gases 109
Satellite Swarm Spots North Pole Drift 80
Climate Change Prompts Emperor Penguins To Find New Breeding Grounds 215
UK Man Sentenced To 16 Months For Exporting 'E-Waste' Despite 91% Reuse 212
The EPA Carbon Plan: Coal Loses, But Who Wins? 268
Humans Not Solely To Blame For Passenger Pigeon Extinction 53
Why the Moon's New Birthday Means the Earth Is Older Than We Thought 98
Study: Deforestation Depletes Fish Stocks 69
New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth 190
Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting 387
NASA Names Gavin Schmidt Director of the Goddard Institute For Space Studies 41
Greenland Is Getting Darker 174
Scientists Race To Save Miami Coral Doomed By Dredging 99
Rising Sea Levels Uncover Japanese War Dead In Marshall Islands 182
Fixing China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions For Them 322
Astronomers Solve Puzzle of Mysterious Streaks In Radio Images of the Sky 66
Plastic Trash Forming Into "Plastiglomerate" Rocks 123
Strange New World Discovered: The "Mega Earth" 147
Terran Computational Calendar Introduces Minimonths, Year Bases, and Datemods 209
Shrinking Waves May Save Antarctic Sea Ice 298
Organic Cat Litter May Have Caused Nuclear Waste Accident 174
Should We Eat Invasive Species? 290
Kiwi Genetically Closer to Extinct Elephant Birds Than to the Emu 46
Hawaii's Oahu Used To Be a Bigger Island 44
Trillions of Plastic Pieces May Be Trapped In Arctic Ice 136
US Officials Cut Estimate of Recoverable Monterey Shale Oil By 96% 411
Researchers Experiment With Explosives To Fight Wildfires 80
Rising Sea Level Could Put East Coast Nuclear Plants At Risk 323
Spanish Conquest May Have Altered Peru's Shoreline 94
Fujitsu Is Growing Radiation-Free Lettuce In Japan's Fukushima Prefecture 146
ESA's Cryosat Mission Sees Antarctic Ice Losses Double 162
Radioactivity Cleanup At Hanford Nuclear Reservation, 25 Years On 123
Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming 379
Climate Journal Publishes Referees' Report In Response To "Witch-Hunt" Claims 330
Orca Identified As 103 Years Old 194
Humans Causing California's Mountains To Grow 36
What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? 258
Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts 784
Interviews: Stewart Brand Answers Your Questions 22
Harvard Study Links Neonicotinoid Pesticide To Colony Collapse Disorder 217
Wyoming Is First State To Reject Science Standards Over Climate Change 661
As Species Decline, So Do the Scientists Who Name Them 76
Feds Issue Emergency Order On Crude Oil Trains 211
Electromagnetic Noise Found To Affect Bird Navigation 71
US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe 627
Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma 127
Chernobyl's Sarcophagus, Redux 121
California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought 420
Ask Stewart Brand About Protecting Resources and Reviving Extinct Species 59
Scientists Race To Develop Livestock That Can Survive Climate Change 291
ISS Studies Show Bacteria From Earth Could Colonize Mars 103
Finally, Hi-Def Streaming Video of the ISS's View of Earth 97
Let's Call It 'Climate Disruption,' White House Science Adviser Suggests (Again) 568
How To Find Nearby Dark Skies, No Matter Where You Are 55
Talking To the Public: the Biggest Enemy To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions 324
Most of What We Need For Smart Cities Already Exists 65
Graphene Could Be Dangerous To Humans and the Environment 135
Designer Creates a Water Bottle That You Can Eat 171
Waste Management: The Critical Element For Nuclear Energy Expansion 281
Former US Test Site Sues Nuclear Nations For Disarmament Failure 165
Panel Says U.S. Not Ready For Inevitable Arctic Oil Spill 95
Asteroid Impacts Bigger Risk Than Thought 172
Oklahoma Moves To Discourage Solar and Wind Power 504
Venus' Crust Heals Too Fast For Plate Tectonics 135
Biofuels From Corn Can Create More Greenhouse Gases Than Gasoline 159
3 Former Astronauts: Earth-Asteroid Collisions Are a Real But Preventable Danger 71
VA Supreme Court: Michael Mann Needn't Turn Over All His Email 348
Plant Breeders Release 'Open Source Seeds' 136
NASA Proposes "Water World" Theory For Origin of Life 115
Kepler-186f: Most 'Earth-Like' Alien World Discovered 239
Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US 158
Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming 343
UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate 433
Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty 869
93 Harvard Faculty Members Call On the University To Divest From Fossil Fuels 214
8.2 Earthquake Off the Coast of Chile, Tsunami Triggered 86
How a 'Seismic Cloak' Could Slow Down an Earthquake 101
UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming 987
UN Court: Japanese Whaling "Not Scientific" 188

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