Earth Stories for 2021

Plans To Capture CO2 From Coal Plants Wasted Federal Dollars, Watchdog Says 291
Using the Oceans To Store CO2 Could Help Avoid Climate Catastrophe 176
Scientists Find Unexpected Trove of Life Forms Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf 13
Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On 100
Winter Storms Are Breaking Snow and Temperature Records 97
Scientists Build New Atlas of Ocean's Oxygen-starved Waters 10
New Era Begins: Construction Starts on 47-Acre Fusion Reactor Funded by Google and Bill Gates 215
No Mountain High Enough: Study Finds Plastic in 'Clean' Air 53
'World's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm' Produces First Power 205
Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows 129
Melting Glaciers May Create New Pacific Salmon Habitat, Study Finds 33
Scientists Discover Seaweed Species That Stops Cows from Emitting Methane 106
Can Invasive Fish Be Scared Off With a Menacing Robot Predator? 37
Imagining an All-Renewable Grid With No Blackouts Without Long-Duration Batteries 227
The First True Millipede: New Species With More Than 1,000 Legs Discovered in Western Australia 34
Fossil Fuel Combustion Kills More Than 1 Million People Every Year, Study Says 151
Giant Kites That Drag Cargo Ships Across Oceans Go On Trial 155
The Millions of Tons of Carbon Emissions That Don't Officially Exist 62
Wind Power Becomes Spain's Leading Energy Source for 2021 89
India Defuses Its Population Bomb 156
New York City Is Banning Natural Gas Hookups To Fight Climate Change 456
Bugs Across Globe Are Evolving To Eat Plastic, Study Finds 88
The Antarctic is Signaling Big Climate Trouble 115
'The New Normal': US Blames This Winter's Severe Tornado's on Climate Change 150
Has the Corporate Climate Migration Begun? 92
Acclaimed Sci-Fi Writer On How Humanity Will Endure the Climate Crisis 206
Microplastics Cause Damage To Human Cells, Study Shows 39
Biden Wants To Make Federal Government Carbon Neutral by 2050 106
Earth is Getting a Black Box To Record Events that Lead To the Downfall of Civilization 120
As Ice Melts, Arctic Ecosystem Confronts Emboldened Killer Whales 149
Californian Firm Touts 'Mushroom Leather' as Sustainability Gamechanger 128
Renewable Energy Has 'Another Record Year of Growth' Says IEA 128
Airbus A340 Plane Lands On Antarctica For First Time 92
Will a 'Lithium Rush' From California's Salton Sea Fund Its Environmental Remediation? 36
The World Needs To Crack Battery Recycling, Fast 97
Reducing Emissions by Reducing Agricultural Waste - Starting with Apple-Monitoring Tech 49
Can We Fight Carbon Emissions With Roundabout Intersections? 303
How Bad is Online Shopping for the Environment? 103
Jeff Bezos: Future Humans 'Will Visit the Earth the Way You Visit Yellowstone' 191
Heavy Rains and Storms in Egypt's Aswan Unleash Scorpions in People's Homes 71
196 Nations Agree to New Climate Change Deal At COP26 Summit 101
Australia Leads the World in Coal Emissions Per Capita 114
New Mineral Discovered In Deep-Earth Diamond 19
Google Wants To Save the Planet With Satellite Images 9
Global Temperatures Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today's Warming 'Unprecedented' 155
Tuvalu Looking at Legal Ways To Be a State if it is Submerged 59
India Holds Back on Climate Pledge Until Rich Nations Pay $1 Trillion 161
As Demand for Green Energy Grows, Solar Farms Face Local Resistance 106
US Passes Massive Infrastructure Bill, Investing in Clean Energy, Electric Cars, and Broadband Internet 157
The US Has Big, New Plans To Pull CO2 Out of the Air 156
Half World's Fossil Fuel Assets Could Become Worthless by 2036 in Net Zero Transition 65
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Will Survive if Warming Kept To 1.5 Degrees 52
US and 19 Other Countries Agree To Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Projects Abroad 62
As Earth Warms, Human History Is Melting Away 37
Brazil Pledges To End Illegal Deforestation By 2028 89
Biden Says US Will Meet Its Climate Goals, Urges Help for Developing Nations 142
India Will Reach Net-Zero Emissions by 2070, Modi Tells COP26 48
'We Mapped Every Large Solar Plant on Earth Using Satellites and Machine Learning' 82
Is Carbon Capture Here? 188
'Ocean Cleanup' Successfully Removes 63,000 Pounds from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 121
Endangered Birds Experience 'Virgin Birth,' a First for the Species 60
US Climate Credibility on the Line as Biden Heads To COP26 173
Counting CO2 is Hard and Expensive, But Tech Firms Think They Have a Solution 61
Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit a New High In 2020, Even With Pandemic Lockdowns 159
The Dirty Secret Behind China's Rising Emission Levels: Pollution from State-Run Companies 304
Fossil Fuel Drilling Plans Undermine Climate Pledges, UN Report Warns 97
Giant Retailers Pledge To Leave Fossil-fueled Ships Behind 96
Eco-friendly, Lab-grown Coffee is On the Way, But It Comes With a Catch 67
99.9% of Scientists Agree Climate Emergency Caused by Humans 281
£1M Inaugural 'Earthshot' Prize Recognizes Creative Solutions to Climate Problems 35
Peak Oil is Coming. That Won't Save the World 156
Countries Are Gathering In an Effort To Stop a Biodiversity Collapse 70
California To Ban Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers and Mowers 374
3 Degrees Warmer, with Twice as Many 100-Degree Days: How Climate Change Will Affect Texas 218
Norway To Hit 100% Electric Vehicle Sales Early Next Year 234
Earth Is Getting Dimmer 40
Historic Go-ahead for Malaria Vaccine To Protect African Children 67
UN Report Warns of Global Water Crisis Amid Climate Change 138
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded To Scientists Whose Work Helps Predict Global Warming 103
Germany Unveils World's First Commercial Plant For Making Synthetic Kerosene 263
The World Wants Greenland's Minerals, but Greenlanders Are Wary 73
The Surprising Downsides To Planting Trillions of Trees 115
Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers: the Most Polluting Machinery Still in Legal Use 362
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Disney Among Companies Backing Groups Against Climate Bill 175
Low Oxygen Levels Along PNW Coast a 'Silent' Climate Change Crisis 75
Natural-gas Prices Are Spiking Around the World 135
US Officials Report More Than 20 Extinctions 86
Air Pollution Likely Cause of Up To 6 Million Premature Births, Study Finds 48
Little Fluffy Clouds May Help Save Australia's Great Barrier Reef 20
Should Billionaires Try Constructing 'Cities of the Future' in the Desert? 269
Microsoft Joins a Linux Foundation Nonprofit's Effort to Decarbonize the Grid 50
Scientists Find Hormone That Allows Seeds To Germinate In Low Water Conditions 26
6,000 Evacuated After Volcanic Lava Flow Spreads on Spanish Island 46
Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time 159
Spain To Ban Sale of Fruit and Vegetables in Plastic Wrapping From 2023 96
A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is On the Rise, Scientists Say 280
Endangered African Penguins, With Multiple Bee Stings, Are Found Dead 33
Can the Computer Chip Industry Reduce Its Carbon Footprint? 25
World's Whitest Paint Sets Guinness Record, Could Reduce Need For Air Conditioning 139
Global Computing's Carbon Footprint Is Bigger Than Previously Estimated 41
Sequoias Are Being Wrapped In Foil Blankets To Protect Against Wildfires 76
US, EU Pledge 30% Cut In Methane Emissions To Limit Global Heating 29
36,000 Gigatons of Carbon Heralded History's Biggest Mass Extinction 79
Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Larger Than Usual, Scientists Say 52
Most Plans for New Coal Plants Scrapped Since Paris Agreement 98
Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement In Cities Around the World 54
Meat Accounts For Nearly 60% of All Greenhouse Gases From Food Production, Study Finds 252
Can the US Create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs With a Civilian Climate Corps? 129
Scientists Aim For Clearer Messages On Global Warming 299
Researchers Complete First-Ever Detailed Map of Global Coral 13
World's Largest Direct Air Carbon Capture System Goes Online 82
Animals 'Shapeshifting' in Response To Climate Crisis, Research Finds 54
Poorly Devised Regulation Lets Firms Pollute With Abandon 60
A Surprise Contributor to Climate Change? Food Waste 178
Why is the Earth Missing a Billion Years of Rocks? 122
Climate Change Is Bankrupting America's Small Towns 226
Arctic Warming Linked To Colder Winters 36
Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms 23
All California National Forests To Temporarily Close Due To 'Wildfire Crisis' 94
How Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World 174
Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant Secretly Launched in Alberta, Tapping Dormant Gas Well 62
'Swiss Re' Signs World's First Long-Term Carbon Capture Deal 64
Hydrogen Lobbyist Quits, Calls 'Blue Hydrogen' a Distraction Possibly Locking in Fossil Fuel Use 189
Climate Change is Making Hurricanes Worse 109
A New Volcanic Island Has Appeared Near Japan 54
Rain Falls at the Summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for First Time on Record 63
The 'Montreal Protocol' Designed To Heal the Ozone Layer May Have Also Fended Off Several Degrees of Warming 44
Western States Face First Federal Water Cuts 204
The Worst 5% of Power Plants Produce 73% of Their Emissions 154
Ethereum's Cryptocurrency Will 'Jettison' Mining for Speedier Proof-of-Stake 142
'Blue' Hydrogen Is Worse For the Climate Than Coal, Study Says 134
July Was Earth's Hottest Month on Record 99
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Must Peak Within 4 Years, Says Leaked UN Report 462
Europe's All-Time Heat Record Set In Sicily At Nearly 120 Degrees 324
Earth is Warming Faster Than Previously Thought, and the Window is Closing To Avoid Catastrophic Outcomes 323
Why a Waste-Coal Power Plant is 'Burning for Bitcoin' 97
A Critical Ocean System May Be Heading For Collapse Due to Climate Change 110
Scientists Spot Warning Signs of Gulf Stream Collapse 315
'Totally New' Idea Suggests Longer Days On Early Earth Set Stage For Complex Life 27
Study: Which Countries Will Best Survive a Collapse? 191
June Heatwave Was the 'Most Extreme' On Record For North America 125
Three Americans Create Enough Carbon Emissions To Kill One Person, Study Finds 216
As China Boomed, It Didn't Take Climate Change Into Account. Now It Must. 82
Thousands of Scientists Warn Climate Tipping Points 'Imminent' 311
'Record-Shattering' Heat Becoming Much More Likely, Says Climate Study 279
Toyota Led on Clean Cars. Now Critics Say It Works To Delay Them. 304
Two US Companies Propose Thousands of Miles of Pipelines - for Capturing Carbon 85
RNA Breakthrough Creates High-Yield, Drought-Tolerant Rice, Potatoes 120
'Nuclear Power's Reliability is Dropping as Extreme Weather Increases' 197
Society Is Right On Track For a Global Collapse, New Study of Infamous 1970s Report Finds 323
A 3-degree Celsius World Has No Safe Place 229
Australia's Giant Carbon Capture Project Fails To Meet Key Targets 89
Wildfire Smoke Spreads Haze and Health Warnings To East Coast 47
7 Years Later, Google Engineers Revise Their Pessimistic Predictions on Climate Change 186
Elusive Glass Octopus Spotted In the Remote Pacific Ocean 12
Parts of the Amazon Rainforest Now Releasing More Carbon Than They Absorbs 57
Exploding Stars May Have Assaulted Ancient Earth 24
Sea Walls Might Just Make Floods Someone Else's Problem, Study Suggests 77
NASA: Moon 'Wobble' In Orbit May Lead To Record Flooding On Earth 117
Over 10,000 Amazon Rainforest Species Risk Extinction, Landmark Report Warns 23
US Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Bakes Wheat, Fruit Crops 117
Extreme Heat Has Killed an Estimated 1 Billion Small Sea Creatures 53
30 Million Americans Face 'Excessive Heat Alerts'. Death Valley, California Hits 130 Degrees 199
Giant Pandas No Longer Endangered But Still Vulnerable, Says China 32
North America Has Its Hottest June on Record 104
It's Cold in the Ocean but It's Hotter Inside Every Sea Otter 25
Wildlife and Livestock a Risk Factor in Future Pandemics, Say Studies 60
India Discovers New Plant Species in Antarctica 10
Nordic Countries Endure Heatwave as Lapland Records Hottest Day Since 1914 141
Can Heat Pumps Change Demand for Air Conditioners Into a Climate-Change Win? 361
New Instant Water Disinfectant 'Millions of Times More Effective' Than Commercial Methods 80
CNN Reports 'Unprecedented Heat, Hundreds Dead' as Climate Change Hits the Northern Hemisphere 211
San Francisco Startup Hopes to Open Sushi Bar Serving Lab-Grown Salmon 58
California Tests Off-the-Grid Solutions to Climate-Related Power Outages 84
Huge 'Eye of Fire' Burning in Gulf of Mexico Extinguished 39
Meat Grown in Israeli Bioreactors May Be Coming to American Diners 90
The Scientists Hired By Big Oil Who Predicted the Climate Crisis Long Ago 146
Canadian Village Lytton Evacuated as Mayor Says 'the Whole Town is on Fire' 105
At Nearly 116 Degrees, Heat in Western Canada Shatters National Record 185
Pacific Northwest Bakes Under Once-In-a-Millennium Heat Dome 154
Isotopes in Stalactites May Link Intensifying Thunderstorms to Global Climate Variability 22
Effort To Protect Tasmanian Devils Devastates Island's Penguin Population 52
Exxon Mobil Challenged by Activist Investors at Its Shareholder Meeting 56
Large-Scale CO2 Removal Facility Set For Scotland 145
Dinosaurs Lived In the Arctic, Research Suggests 47
Radio Waves From Earth Have Reached Dozens of Stars 51
Will Data Centers Exacerbate Our Droughts? 86
New Wildfires Are At A 10-Year High In The Hot, Dry Western US 85
Earth is Trapping 'Unprecedented' Amount of Heat, NASA Says 225
Irreversible Warming Tipping Point May Have Been Triggered: Arctic Mission Chief 309
Glacier Blood? Watermelon Snow? Whatever It's Called, Snow Shouldn't Be So Red. 55
G7 Nations Promise Decarbonization, 870 Million Covid-19 Vaccines 95
Are Transcontinental, Submarine Supergrids the Future of Energy? 222
A Massive Underwater Avalanche Lasted Two Days 13
Lake Mead Falls To Lowest Level Since 1930s Amid Worsening Drought 172
Whale That Travelled Halfway Around the World Sets Migration Record 17
National Geographic Recognizes New 5th Ocean 64
Carbon Dioxide Reaches Highest Level In 4 Million Years 221
Geologists Marvel at Alaska Glacier's Rare 'Surge' -- Up to 60 Feet a Day 94
Giant Diamonds May Hold the Key To Superdeep Earthquakes 11
Denmark Parliament Approves Giant Artificial Island Off Copenhagen 58
Sharks Nearly Went Extinct 19 Million Years Ago From Mystery Event 75
G7 Nations Committing Billions More To Fossil Fuel Than Green Energy 205
Is Natural Gas (Mostly) Good for Global Warming? 139
Coalition Including Microsoft, Linux Foundation, GitHub Urge Green Software Development 136
Satellites May Have Been Underestimating the Planet's Warming For Decades 137
Enigmatic Designs Found in India May Be The Largest Images Ever Made by Human Hands 69
How the Human Life Span Doubled in 100 Years 97
Thousands Fled as Lava Poured Into Villages in Congo 31
Are We Ready for a Looming Decline in World Population? 390
Move Over, Death Valley: These Are the Two Hottest Spots On Earth 76
Antarctica Gives Birth To World's Largest Iceberg 91
Twenty Firms Produce 55% of World's Plastic Waste, Report Reveals 150
No New Fossil Fuel Projects For Net-Zero: IEA 192
UK Plastic Waste Being Dumped and Burned in Turkey, Says Greenpeace 130
Study Finds Alarming Levels of 'Forever Chemicals' In US Mothers' Breast Milk 100
Climate Emissions Shrinking the Stratosphere, Scientists Reveal 43
Climate Change Is Making Big Problems Bigger 120
Forests the Size of France Regrown Since 2000, Study Suggests 70
Wildlife is Thriving in Chernobyl 35 Years After the Nuclear Explosion 74
Gas Flaring Declined in 2020, Study Finds 32
A Nonprofit Promised To Preserve Wildlife. Then it Made Millions Claiming it Could Cut Down Trees 105
Electric Vehicles May Drive a Lithium Supply Crunch 176
Millennials are Taking Governments to Court over Climate Change. And They're Starting to Win 240
Sharks Use Earth's Magnetic Field To Navigate the Seas 16
China's Emissions Now Exceed All the Developed World's Combined 293
Global Heating Pace Risks 'Unstoppable' Sea Level Rise as Antarctic Ice Sheet Melts 247
White House Eyes Subsidies for Nuclear Plants To Help Meet Climate Targets 241
NOAA Unveils a Warmer Climate 'Normal' For the US 45
Sale of Coal and Wet Wood Restricted in England 109
California's Power Grid Hits 95% Renewable Energy. Sort of. 187
Satellites Show World's Glaciers Melting Faster Than Ever 108
'We're All in This Together': Dr Fauci Says World Has Failed India as Covid Cases Surge 339
Rare Chunks of Earth's Mantle Found Exposed In Maryland 53
Lockdowns Cut South Asia Smog. They Could Fill Reservoirs, Too. 13
Slashing Methane Emissions Could Be Crucial For Fighting Climate Change, UN Report Warns 144
Climate Crisis Has Shifted the Earth's Axis 143
Missing Arctic Ice Fueled the 'Beast of the East' Winter Storm 94
Power Plants Become Bitcoin-Mining Operations. Are There Alternatives? 223
Whitest-Ever Paint Could Help Cool Heating Earth, Study Shows 123
2.5 Billion T. Rex Inhabited the Planet, Researchers Say 46
Apple Launches $200 Million 'Restore Fund' To Target Carbon Removal 26
Google Earth Now Shows Decades of Climate Change in Seconds 66
Facebook Hits Renewable Energy Goal Ahead of Earth Day 24
Melting Ice Sheets Triggered 60 Feet of Sea Level Rise 14,600 Years Ago 100
In One Year a Billion Tons of Food Got Wasted 127
A Third of Antarctic Ice Shelf Risks Collapse as Our Planet Warms 92
PayPal Pledges To Reach Net-Zero Greenhouse Emissions By 2040 38
Rapid Global Heating Is Hurting Farm Productivity, Study Finds 68
Geoengineering Researchers Have Halted Plans For a Balloon Launch in Sweden 13

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