Earth Stories for 2020

Mitsubishi Heavy To Build Biggest Zero-Carbon Steel Plant 135
Should Cellphone Chargers Be Sold Separately? 214
Due to Popular Demand, GM May Build More of Its 'Hummer EV' Electric Pickups 96
Mass Die-Off of Birds in Southwest US 'Probably Linked to Climate Crisis' 109
A New Population of Blue Whales Was Discovered Hiding in the Indian Ocean 45
Discovery of 'Cryptic Species' Shows Earth is Even More Biologically Diverse 37
Scientists and Philosopher Team Up, Propose a New Way To Categorize Minerals 16
Could Nuclear Power Be Used For Carbon Capture? 197
Countries Roll Out 2030 Paris Accord Goals Amid US Absence 128
A History of the American Energy System In One Chart 64
How the Nature Conservancy, the World's Biggest Environmental Group, Became a Dealer of Meaningless Carbon Offsets 53
EU Member States Agree 55% Cut in Carbon Emissions by 2030 65
Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity 183
How People Across the World Spend Their Time and What it Tells us About Living Conditions 45
Human 'Stuff' Now Outweighs All Life on Earth 98
Microsoft, Unilever Join Amazon's Pledge To Fight Climate Change 28
Mount Everest, Earth's Tallest Mountain, Just Got Taller By About a Meter 44
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestle Named Top Plastic Polluters For Third Year In a Row 158
Exxon Holds Back on Technology That Could Slow Climate Change 94
In Rare Show of Solidarity, 14 Key Nations Commit To Protect Oceans 74
Everest Gets an Altitude Adjustment: Nepal and China Agree on Height 107
US Air Pollution Monitoring Network Falling Into Disrepair 97
How Bill Gates Would Fight Climate Change 217
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Status Lowered To 'Critical' and Deteriorating 43
What Happened After Silicon Valley Tried to Make Telecommuting Permanent 114
Amazon and Apple 'Not Playing Their Part' in Tackling Electronic Waste 74
Huge Reservoir of Fresh Water Found Beneath the Sea Off Hawaii 83
1% of Farms Operate 70% of World's Farmland 115
Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up 67
US Emissions To Drop 9% In 2020, Putting Country Back On Track For Paris Commitment 106
Microsoft's Next Phase of Climate Lobbying 15
Solar Power Stations in Space Could Be the Answer To Our Energy Needs 233
1% of People Cause Half of Global Aviation Emissions, Study Says 126
Jeff Bezos Announces First Beneficiaries of His $10 Billion Climate Fund 70
Trump Administration, In Late Push, Moves To Sell Oil Rights In Arctic Refuge 373
Rising Levels of Carbon Dioxide Increasing Extreme Weather Events in Australia, Report Finds 43
Ending Greenhouse Gas Emissions May Not Stop Global Warming, Study Says 303
Hurricanes Might Not Be Losing Steam As Fast As They Used To 20
Occidental Is First US Oil Major To Target Net Zero Emissions 52
Chinese Glaciers Melting At 'Shocking' Pace, Scientists Say 73
Emissions From US Industrial Facilities Fell Nearly 5% In 2019 108
Scientists Discover Two New Mammals in Australia 27
How Long Do Most Species Last Before Going Extinct? 35
A Biden Victory Positions America For a 180-Degree Turn On Climate Change 251
What Would We Experience If Earth Spontaneously Turned Into A Black Hole? 126
India and Pakistan Dominate WHO's Air Pollution Database 18
US Formally Withdraws From Paris Climate Agreement 250
GPS and Water Don't Mix. So Scientists Have Found a New Way To Navigate Under the Sea 15
Slump in Air Travel Hindered Weather Forecasting, Study Shows 14
US and UK Citizens Are World's Biggest Sources of Plastic Waste 103
These Drones Will Plant 40,000 Trees in a Month. By 2028, They'll Have Planted 1 Billion 50
Humans Have Been Living In Space For 20 Years Straight 56
'Sleeping Giant' Arctic Methane Deposits Starting To Release, Scientists Find 280
NASA Discovers a Rare Metal Asteroid That's Worth $10,000 Quadrillion 192
Scientists Discover Coral Reef Taller Than the Empire State Building 30
World's First Ocean Hybrid Platform Converts Tidal Waves Into Energy 39
Japan's New Leader Sets Ambitious Goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2050 48
Greenpeace Claims Fukushima Water Release Could Change Human DNA 200
Death of Sea Life Off Russia Peninsula 'Caused by Algae' 24
Burger King Plans To Test Reusable Containers Starting Next Year 61
Make Remote Work Permanent? No Way, Say Bay Area Leaders 169
Chilling Report Suggests 1 Out of 5 Countries Could Be Headed For Ecosystem Collapse 116
The Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half Its Corals 57
German Ship Completes Historic Arctic Expedition 23
One Solar/Wind Energy Company Is Now More Valuable Than Exxon Mobil 69
The World's First Carbon Dioxide Removal Law Database 15
Venice Holds Back the Water For First Time In 1,200 Years 69
Exxon's Plan For Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed In Leaked Documents 67
More Than 14m Tonnes of Plastic Believed To Be at the Bottom of the Ocean 76
Is Streaming Music Worse For the Environment? 63
100,000 Apple Devices Repaired, Resold: Apple Sues Canadian Recycling Firm 113
'Green Hydrogen' From Renewables Could Become the Cheapest 'Transformative Fuel' 130
Greenland's Ice Melting Faster Than At Any Time In Past 12,000 Years 98
Dual-Flush Toilets 'Wasting More Water Than They Save' 136
Denmark: We Can Slash CO2 By 70% In a Decade And Still Have Welfare 94
UK Risks Losing Contract For New Climate Research Centre Because of Brexit 119
Silicon Valley Tech Workers Angered By Proposal to Make Some Mandatory Telecommuting Permanent 230
Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial. 288
China, in Pointed Message To US, Tightens Its Climate Targets 121
From Climate Change to the Dangers of Smoking: How Powerful Interests 'Made Us Doubt Everything' 349
Could Smart Technology Help Save the World's Honey Bees? 42
Amazon Defends Working With Oil Companies To Reach Its Zero-Carbon Goal 8
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled 165
Sir David Attenborough Delivers Stark Warning In BBC Doc 'Extinction: the Facts' 115
Another Source of Greenhouse Gas: Abandoned Oil Wells 123
With Wildfires, California Experiences a 'Cascading' of Climate Disasters 271
Wildlife In 'Catastrophic Decline' Due To Human Destruction, Scientists Warn 114
Earth Barreling Toward 'Hothouse' State Not Seen In 50 Million Years, Epic New Climate Record Shows 228
Is Hot Asphalt Really Increasing Air Pollution? 63
Industrial Waste Can Turn Planet-Warming Carbon Dioxide Into Stone 77
Apple Invests in World's Largest Onshore Wind Turbines That Will Power a Danish Data Center 31
Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic. 163
Bacteria From Earth Can Survive In Space and Could Endure the Trip To Mars, Says Study 65
Meteorite Study Suggests Earth May Have Been Wet Since It Formed 59
Ozone Increased in the Northern Hemisphere Over the Last Two Decades 34
23-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Leaves Offer New Insight Into Global Warming 37
Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash 270
Strange Bacteria Can Build Electricity-Carrying Cables in Mud 11
Greenland Lost 586 Billion Tons of Ice In 2019 129
Exploding Stars May Have Caused Mass Extinction On Earth, Study Shows 30
A Car-Sized Asteroid Made the Closest Earth Flyby a Space Rock Has Ever Survived 56
NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly In Earth's Magnetic Field 59
Temperature in Death Valley Today: 130 Degrees, Earth's Highest Since at Least 1931 231
Greenland's Ice Sheet has Melted to a Point of No Return 200
EPA To Rescind Methane Regulations For Oil and Gas 118
Researcher Breakthrough Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Ethanol 190
Penguin Poop Seen From Space Leads To Discovery of New Colonies 19
'Zombie Cicadas' Are Under the Influence of a Psychedelic, Mind-controlling Fungus 34
Study: Saving Pandas Led To the Downfall of Other Animals 33
Canada's Last Fully Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Collapses 175
Scientists Spot Space Junk With Lasers In Broad Daylight 37
Germany Plans To Dim Lights At Night To Save Insects 117
How To Build a Nuclear Warning For 10,000 Years' Time 273
SpaceX's Starship SN5 Testbed Successfully Makes 150m Controlled Flight 58
Do Animals Really Anticipate Earthquakes? Sensors Hint They Do 41
AI Distinguishes Birds That Even Experts Can't 32
Germany is Banning Single-Use Plastic Straws, Cotton Buds and Food Containers 135
A Plunge In Incoming Sunlight May Have Triggered 'Snowball Earths' 53
Airbus To Build 'First Interplanetary Cargo Ship' 43
Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades 299
Scientists Pull Living Microbes, Possibly 100 Million Years Old, From Beneath the Sea 20
From Rocks To Icebergs, the Natural World Tends To Break Into Cubes 34
Rock From Mars Heads Home After 600,000 Year Odyssey Across Space 38
Will Global Warming Drive Polar Bears Toward Extinction? 104
Western Bumblebee Population Drops Up To 93% Over the Last 20 Years 76
The Great Climate Migration Has Begun 235
China's Tianwen-1 Mars Rover Rockets Away From Earth 36
An Earthquake With a Preliminary Magnitude of 7.8 Struck Off the Coast of Alaska Early Wednesday Morning. 34
Apple Says Its Supply Chains and Products Will Be Carbon Neutral by 2030 26
'If War Breaks Out on Top of the World' 83
The Entire World's Carbon Emissions Will Finally Be Trackable In Real Time 46
Biden Announces $2 Trillion Climate Plan 134
Desert Quakes May Have Boosted Chances of 'Big One' Striking California 61
Sustainable Engineers At Kenoteq Are Reinventing the Brick 80
US Utilities Are Cleaning Up Their Act With Emissions Down 8% 57
New Study Detects Ringing of the Global Atmosphere 24
Spreading Rock Dust On Fields Could Remove Vast Amounts of CO2 From Air 149
Moon's Metal-Rich Craters Challenge Popular Theories About Its Origin 68
Germany is First Major Economy To Phase Out Coal and Nuclear 240
World's Pile of Electronic Waste Grows Ever Higher: Study 66
Sydney Now Powered By 100% Renewable Electricity 126
Earth's Final Frontier: The Global Race To Map the Entire Ocean Floor 29
Amazon Eliminates Single-use Plastic in Packaging in India 23
A Massive Saharan Dust Plume Is Moving Into the Southeast US 79
Arctic Records Its Hottest Temperature Ever 100
Temperature Hits 100 Degrees in Arctic Town in Siberia 117
America Can Achieve Its 90% Clean Energy Goals 15 Years Early 241
Controversial Theory Claims Forests Don't Just Make Rain -- They Make Wind 92
Millions of Abandoned Oil Wells Are Leaking Methane, a Climate Menace 153
Scientists Have Discovered Vast Unidentified Structures Deep Inside the Earth 84
Planet's View From Above Just Got Clearer 22
Commonwealth Nations To Protect Coral Reefs With Satellite Technology 16
Atmospheric CO2 Levels Rise Sharply Despite COVID-19 Lockdowns 196
Spain Readies Big Reduction in Single-Use Plastics From Mid-2021 54
Could Granite Solve the Hard Problem of Nuclear Waste Storage? 152
EU's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue To Fall As Coal Ditched 152
Ancient Mass Extinction Tied To Ozone Loss, Warming Climate 34
What a Week's Disasters Tell Us About Climate and the Pandemic 66
Supercomputer Simulates the Impact of the Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs 61
Pandemic Brings Huge Spike In Demand For Plant-Based Meat Alternatives 130
Bumblebees' 'Clever Trick' Fools Plants Into Flowering 29
Cold War Satellites Inadvertently Tracked Species Declines 38
Carlsberg and Coca-Cola Back Pioneering Project To Make Plant-Based Bottles 152
Cyclone Wreaks Deadly Havoc in India and Bangladesh 25
Carbon Emissions Dropped 17 Percent Globally Amid Coronavirus 86
Can Nuclear Fallout Make It Rain? 24
Moon's Mysterious Disappearance 900 Years Ago Finally Gets An Explanation 27
Australian Company Generates Cheap Renewable Energy From Tides 84
The Largest Arctic Ozone Hole Ever Recorded is Now Closed 47
Glowing Blue Waves Lighting Up SoCal Coastline Roll Into the South Bay 43
Michael Moore Offers Free Streaming of Movie Criticizing the Green Movement 230
10 Kinds of Apples That Were Thought to Be Extinct Have Been Rediscovered 48
Elon Musk Says Starlink Internet Private Beta To Begin In Roughly Three Months, Public Beta In Six 55
Insect Numbers Down 25% Since 1990, Global Study Finds 62
Air Pollution Falls By Unprecedented Levels In Major Global Cities During Coronavirus Lockdowns 176
Deep Sea Squid Communicate By Glowing Like E-Readers 25
Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planet Found Hidden In Early NASA Kepler Data 71
Scientists Confirm Dramatic Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet 163
Microsoft's New 'Planetary Computer' Project Will Use Global Environmental Data To Support Sustainability 26
Elon Musk Still Predicts 1 Million Tesla Robotaxis By the End of the Year 125
Mutant Enzyme Could Vastly Improve Recycling of Plastic Bottles 35
NASA Satellite Data Show 30% Drop In Air Pollution Over Northeast America 72
Remembering Apollo 13 at 50 34
Trump Signs Executive Order To Support Moon Mining, Tap Asteroid Resources 218
Great Barrier Reef Suffers Its Most Widespread Mass Bleaching Event On Record 46
Experiment Finds That Gravity Still Works Down To 50 Micrometers 63
Earth's Crust Is Shaking Less After Coronavirus Lockdowns 45
How To Get To Net Zero Carbon Emissions: Cut Short-Lived Superpollutants 184
Modern Meteorology Was Born 60 Years Ago Today 19
Evidence of Ancient Rainforests Found In Antarctica 113
Are There Exceptions to the Rule that Going Electric Reduces Emissions? 120
You Can Now Ride a Submarine To the Deepest Point On Earth 44
Help Needed To Rescue UK's Old Rainfall Records 20
World's Wind Power Capacity Up By Fifth After Record Year 153
Venezuela's Flagship Communications Satellite Out of Service and Tumbling 81
Traffic and Pollution Plummet as US Cities Shut Down for Coronavirus 55
Fossil Hunters Find Evidence of 555 Million-Year-Old Human Relative 75
Greenland's Melting Ice Raised Global Sea Level By 2.2mm In Two Months 185
Can Astronauts Use GPS To Navigate On the Moon? 99
California Loses Up To $1 Billion In Crops Each Year Because of Air Pollution, Study Finds 50
What Happened After San Francisco's Market Street Went Car-Free? 85
Will Coronavirus Lockdowns Bring a Drop in Air-Pollution Related Deaths? 117
Coronavirus Causes a Bicycling Boom in New York City 62
Could Cows Actually Help Solve the Climate Crisis? 113
After Coronavirus, Airlines are Flying Empty 'Ghost' Flights in Europe 106
Amazon Nixed 'Green' Delivery Proposal to Avoid Alienating Shoppers 85
Earth May Have Been a 'Water World' 3 Billion Years Ago, Scientists Find 84
Was This Life's First Meal? 91
Coke and Pepsi Sued For Creating a Plastic Pollution 'Nuisance' 164
A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research 382
Some Clever Farmers are Harvesting Metals From Plants 94
Bernie Sanders Has an Audacious -- and Hugely Expensive -- Climate Plan 586
15-Million-Year-Old Crater On Earth Reveals Clues About Mars' Watery Past 33
Solar Storms Can Mess With Whales' Ability To Navigate, Cause Strandings 18
Key Silicon Valley Reservoir To Be Completely Drained Due To Earthquake Risk 131
JP Morgan Economists Warn of 'Catastrophic' Climate Change 186
Why the Earth's Wobble Means Your Zodiac Sign Isn't What You Think 126
Fossil-Fuel Production May Be Responsible For Much More Atmospheric Methane Than Scientists Thought 94
Can Solar Power Compete With Coal? In India, It's Gaining Ground 93
Jeff Bezos Commits $10 Billion To Fight Climate Change 132
Google Redraws the Borders On Maps Depending On Who's Looking 75
'Pale Blue Dot' Revisited 25
Officials In Australia's New South Wales Celebrate: 'All Fires Are Now Contained' 78
Car 'Splatometer' Tests Reveal Huge Decline In Number of Insects 130
By 2050, the US Will Lose $83 Billion a Year Because of All the Nature We've Destroyed 187
Antarctica Logs Hottest Temperature On Record of 18.3C 229
Company To Harvest Green Hydrogen From Underground Oil Fires 107
Permafrost Is Thawing So Fast, It's Gouging Holes In the Arctic 171
Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don't Know Why 445
Does a Vegan Diet Affect Your Intelligence? 263
Nearly Half of Americans Didn't Go Outside For Recreation In 2018 127
New Type of Aurora Called 'The Dunes' Documented 8
Underwater Robot Reveals Hidden Base of Antarctica's 'Doomsday' Glacier 47
Journey To the 'Doomsday Glacier' 97
Scotland Is on Track To Hit 100% Renewable Energy This Year 151
Albatrosses Outfitted With GPS Trackers Detect Illegal Fishing Vessels 71
Do Emails Contribute to Global Warming? 169
357 Amazon Employees Launch Mass Defiance of the Company's Communications Policy 139
The Doomsday Clock Is Now Closer to Midnight Than It's Ever Been 242
New Research Provides Evidence of Strong Early Magnetic Field Around Earth 16
China To Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags and Straws 96
Microsoft Is Also Launching a New $1 Billion 'Climate Innovation Fund' 24
Climate Models Are Getting Future Warming Projections 164
Aussie Firefighters Save World's Only Groves Of Prehistoric Wollemi Pines 17
Microsoft Pledges To Be Carbon Negative By 2030 and Re-capture All of Its Past Emissions 81
Climate Threats Now Dominate Long-Term Risks, Survey of Global Leaders Finds 180
Oldest Material On Earth Discovered 42
2019 Was Hotter Than Any Year in the 20th Century 185
Australia's Wildfires Have Created More Emissions Than 116 Nations 155
Chinese Paddlefish, One of the World's Largest Fish, Survived the Meteor That Killed the Dinosaurs. But They Couldn't Survive Us. 84

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