Earth Stories for 2015

New Maps Show Spread and Impact of Drought On California Forests 88
Should We Fill the Sahara With Solar Panels? 386
Physicists Figure Out How To Make Cleaner Fuel Cells 32
Giant Squid Filmed At Japanese Marina 57
Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months 292
Apollo 17 Soil Matches Ancient Earth's Ocean Ridges In Water Content 78
The Science Behind the Paris Climate Accords 118
Can Electric Signals In Earth's Atmosphere Predict Earthquakes? 71
Should a Mars Colony Be Independent? 295
Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels 313
As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? 302
Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions 340
$7 Million Xprize For Deep Ocean Exploration 37
A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal 339
Asteroid Impact Helped Create the Birds We Know Today 67
Paris Climate Deal Adopted 292
Volkswagen Says Carbon Deviations Much Smaller Than Suspected 84
Beijing Issues 'Red Alert' Over Smog 145
Paris Climate Change Talks Yield First Draft 138
How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea 289
To Fight Pollution, New Delhi Restricts When Residents Can Drive 131
Porsche Is Building a Tesla Competitor 254
Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust 171
Congress Votes to Scrap Obama's Clean Power Plan 151
Arkansas Has a Growing Population of "Climate Change Refugees" 276
Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction 475
Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks 93
How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? 210
Tesla's NOx Problem: Model X Delay Explained? 42
On iFixit and the Right To Repair 250
Pesticides Turn Bumblebees Into Poor Pollinators 93
The Information Theory of Life 90
UK's Coal Plants To Be Phased Out Within 10 Years 109
This October Was the Hottest Ever Measured 369
Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive 381
World's First "Porous Liquid" Could Be Used For CO2 Sequestration 91
Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars 378
Earth May Have Kept Its Own Water Rather Than Getting It From Asteroids 45
Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Over Pre-Industrial Levels 735
Persian Gulf Temperatures May Be At the Edge of Human Tolerance In 30 Years 488
Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline 369
3D Printed Objects Found Toxic To Fish Embryos 108
Ocean-Mapping Robots Could Help Uncover Mysteries of the Deep Blue 21
Deep Magma Chambers Seen Beneath Mount St. Helens 66
Volkswagen Emissions Issues Spread To Gasoline Cars 208
Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate 249
Greenland Ice Sheet Not Covered In Soot 119
NASA Study Shows Net Gains For Antarctic Ice 319
Patricia, Strongest Hurricane Ever Seen In Eastern Pacific, Strikes In Mexico 144
Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History 273
Technology's Role In a Climate Solution 173
Only 8% of the Universe's Habitable Worlds Have Formed So Far 140
'Geospeedometer' Confirms Super-eruptions Have Surprisingly Short Fuses 67
Wildflowers Give Bees a Dose of Pesticides 38
Scientists May Have Found the Earliest Evidence of Life On Earth 71
How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples With Staggering Amounts of Data 49
New Concerns Over Earthquakes In Oklahoma Near Vast Oil-Storage Facility 103
Volkswagen Seeks To Repair Its Image By Focusing On Electric 230
"E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails 127
The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters 286
Emissions Scandal Expands: Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda, and Mitsubishi 420
How Analog Tide Predictors Changed Human History 37
What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? 142
Study Finds Humans Are Worse Than Radiation For Chernobyl Animals 145
B612 Foundation Loses Partnership With NASA; Asteroids Not a Significant Risk 182
Michigan Mammoth May Have Been Butchered By Humans 41
Cape Verde Boulders Indicate Massive Tsunami 73,000 Years Ago 54
Foam-Eating Worms May Offer Solution To Mounting Waste 90
$20 Million XPRIZE Takes On Carbon Emissions 47
Study: Man-Made Global Warming First Became Evident In the Mid 20th Century 411
Nuclear Energy: The Good News and the Bad News In the EPA Clean Energy Plan 121
An AI Hunts the Wild Animals Carrying Ebola 45
Volkswagen CEO Issues Apology Over Emission-Cheating Software 301
A Wikipedia-Style Tree of Life Emerges 72
A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers 737
Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming 411
Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings 255
Making Liquid Fuels From Sun and Air 163
A Powerful 8.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Chile's Coast 56
Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change 591
Rupert Murdoch Buys National Geographic Magazine 286
Researchers Say S. African Bones Are From Previously Unknown Human Relative 77
Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate 528
Ice-Age Fossils Unearthed At Construction Site In California 44
NASA's Ten-Year Mission To Study All the Ways the Arctic Is Doomed 125
Role Model Bhutan Takes Zen Approach To Climate Change 181
The Paris Climate Talks: Negotiating With the Atmosphere 130
Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate 370
Easy-To-Clean Membrane Separates Oil From Water 39
Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose 269
60,000 Antelope Died In 4 Days, and No One Knows Why 206
Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars 248
Nearly Every Seabird May Be Eating Plastic By 2050 149
How Artificial Intelligence Can Fight Air Pollution In China 50
3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time 292
"McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali" 389
Ocean Cleanup Project Completes Great Pacific Garbage Patch Research Expedition 71
Canadian Nuclear Accident Study Puts Risks Into Perspective 166
NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise 382
The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit By Water Shortages By 2040 203
Countries Gaming Carbon Offsets May Have Dramatically Increased Emissions 158
Group Seeks Test For Geoengineering Tool To Fight Climate Change 127
In Germany, a Message-in-a-Bottle Found 108 Years After Its Release 57
NASA's Hurricane Model Resolution Increases Nearly 10-Fold Since Katrina 89
New Tool Allows Scientists To Annotate Media Coverage of Climate Change 185
Breathing Beijing's Air Is the Equivalent of Smoking Almost 40 Cigarettes a Day 182
Georgia Aquarium Battles Federal Government Over Belugas 90
Ecuador Declares State of Emergency Over Volcano 44
How Weather Modeling Gets Better 43
How California Is Winning the Drought 390
Off-Grid Home Ecocapsule To Hit the Market This Year 164
Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean 417
California Fights Drought With 96 Million "Shade Balls" 234
Internet's Deep Infrastructure Could Double As a Sensor Network For Earthquakes and More 37
Why Bill Gates Is Dumping Another $1 Billion Into Clean Energy 248
Giving Up Alternating Current 466
Fuel Cells Promise To Reduce Carbon Emissions of Mobile Base Stations 25
Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal 413
Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink 397
Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable 528
Want To Fight Climate Change? Stop Cows From Burping 299
Researchers Find That Queen Bees Vaccinate Their Offspring 26
China's Island-Building In Pictures 140
Google Straps Aclima Sensors To Street View Cars To Map Air Pollution 73
Genetically Modified Rice Makes More Food, Less Greenhouse Gas 295
Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels 574
NY Mayor Commits To Reduce Emissions 40% By 2030 80
Fossil Fuels Are Messing With Carbon Dating 108
Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles 188
2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record 385
Mini Ice Age: Nothing To Worry About 195
Google To Reopen Maps To User Edits, With an Anti-Abuse Plan 28
How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill In History Changed Almost Nothing 195
Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s 249
Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change 225
Catastrophic Chinese Floods Triggered By Air Pollution 59
A Real-Time Map of All the Objects In Earth's Orbit 41
Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm 279
Chinese Zoo Animals Monitored For Earthquake Prediction 29
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Empty Toner Cartridges? 189
What If You Could See Asteroids In the Night Sky? 54
Asteroid Day On June 30 Aims To Raise Awareness of Collision Risks 76
Bill Gates Investing $2 Billion In Renewables 292
Genetic Rescue Efforts Could Help Coral Shrug Off Warmer Oceans 167
Weather Promising for Sunday Morning SpaceX Launch 49
Judge Orders Dutch Government To Finally Take Action On Climate Promises 242
The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy 308
Recycling Is Dying 371
3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros 163
Lawrence Krauss On the Pope's Encyclical: Not Even Close? 305
Study: Sixth Extinction Event Is Underway 294
Big-Data Animal Tracking As an Eye On Life and Planet 28
UrtheCast Releases Its First Commercial Videos of Earth 45
As Drought Worsens, California Orders Record Water Cuts 599
Solar Power Capacity Installs Surpass Wind and Coal For Second Year 259
Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity 637
NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set 310
G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 298
Combating Climate Risks With 3D Printing 85
NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened 639
EPA Says No Evidence That Fracking Has "Widespread" Impact On Drinking Water 266
Scientists Discover Sawfish Escape Extinction Through "Virgin Births" 111
Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? 692
Thanks To the Montreal Protocol, We Avoided Severe Ozone Depletion 141
California Is Giving Away Free Solar Panels To Its Poorest Residents 272
Heat Wave Kills More Than 1,100 In India 155
Bats' White-Nose Syndrome May Be Cured 89
Galapagos Island Volcano Erupts After 33 Years, Threatening Fragile Ecosystem 186
California Votes To Ban Microbeads 247
ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula 268
Gravitational Anomalies Beneath Mountains Point To Isostasy of Earth's Crust 95
Oldest Stone Tools Predate Previous Record Holder By 700,000 Years 103
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Responds In Nepal 25
Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years 293
Greenland's Glaciers Develop Stretch Marks As They Accelerate 249
More Than 40% of US Honeybee Colonies Died In a 12-Month Period Ending In April 220
California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling 278
Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up 422
Can Earthquakes Be Predicted Algorithmically? 94
Subsurface Ocean Waves Can Be More Than 500 Meters High 61
Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy 525
25 Percent of Cars Cause 90 Percent of Air Pollution 395
Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record 372
The World's Most Wasteful Megacity 186
Recent Paper Shows Fracking Chemicals In Drinking Water, Industry Attacks It 328
4.0 Earthquake Near Concord, California 128
Empty Landscape Looms, If Large Herbivores Continue to Die Out 146
The Pioneer Who Invented the Weather Forecast 33
Seafloor Sensors Record Possible Eruption of Underwater Volcano 20
Climatologist Speaks On the Effects of Geoengineering 105
New Study Suggests Flying Is Greener Than Driving 280
Ancient Megadrought Entombed Dodos In Poisonous Fecal Cocktail 55
Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics 703
Signs of Subsurface 'Alien' Life Found In Antarctica 106
A Cheap, Ubiquitous Earthquake Warning System 101
Google Executive Dan Fredinburg Among Victims of Everest Avalanche 164
Seeing Buildings Shake With Software 21
Giant Survival Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year On an Iceberg 128
7.8 Earthquake Rocks Nepal, Hundreds Dead 114
Bees Prefer Nectar Laced With Neonicotinoids 104
Yellowstone Supervolcano Even Bigger Than We Realized 152
Africa E-Waste Dump Continues Hyperbole War 78
USGS: Oil and Gas Operations Could Trigger Large Earthquakes 171
Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs 622
William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California 678
Pull-Top Can Tabs, At 50, Reach Historic Archaeological Status 120
If Earth Never Had Life, Continents Would Be Smaller 64
Resistance To Antibiotics Found In Isolated Amazonian Tribe 53
Drought and Desertification: How Robots Might Help 124
Scientists Locate Sunken, Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast 193
Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate 128
Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? 365
Mystery "Warm Blob" In the Pacific Ocean Could Be Causing California's Drought 173
California Looks To the Sea For a Drink of Water 332
The Myth of Going Off the Power Grid 281
The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct 417
America's Methane Mystery: NASA Set To Investigate Hotspot Over the 4 Corners 111
Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? 298
Collision With Earth's "Little Sister" Created the Moon 83
Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health 304
"Brontosaurus" Name Resurrected Thanks To New Dino Family Tree 68
The Arrival of Man-Made Earthquakes 166
The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge 215
The World Lost an Oklahoma-Sized Area of Forest In 2013, Satellite Data Show 143
NASA-ESA Project Will Shoot an Asteroid To See What Happens 113
Cetaceans Able To Focus Sound For Echolocation 25
Chinese Scientists Plan Solar Power Station In Space 226
Nation's Biggest Nuclear Firm Makes a Play For Carbon Credit Cash 227
Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient 442
Ordnance Survey Releases Mapping Tools 18
Japan To Build 250-Mile-Long, Four Storey-High Wall To Stop Tsunamis 197
Better Disaster Shelters than FEMA Trailers (Video) 79
World's Largest Asteroid Impacts Found In Central Australia 74
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Introduces the Doomsday Dashboard 92
How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought 417
In Response to Pollution Spike, Paris Temporarily Halves Traffic By Decree 198
Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic 573
Meet the Carolina Butcher, a 9-Foot Crocodile That Walked On Two Legs 45
Some Biodegradable Plastics Don't Live Up To Their Claims 98
Most Powerful Geomagnetic Storm of Solar Cycle 24 Is Happening 86
Politics Is Poisoning NASA's Ability To Do Science 416
UN Backs Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign 190
In Historic Turn, CO2 Emissions Flatline In 2014, Even As Global Economy Grows 283
US Wind Power Is Expected To Double In the Next 5 Years 262
Proxima Centauri Might Not Be the Closest Star To Earth 98
Newly Discovered Sea Creature Was Once the Largest Animal On Earth 57
New Solar Capacity Beats Coal and Wind, Again 356
Martian Canyons May Have Been Carved By Wind 39
California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change 279
State Employees Say Rules Prevent Open "Climate Change" Discussion In Florida 366

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