Earth Stories for 2023

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
US Energy Dept Pledges $100M to Buy Products Derived from Converted Carbon Emissions 27
America Will Convert Land from Its Nuclear Weapons Program into Clean Energy Projects 77
Maine Lawmakers Approve Bill to Boost Offshore Wind Development 18
Era of Global Boiling Has Arrived, UN Chief Says 453
Gulf Stream Could Collapse as Early as 2025, Study Suggests 299
Lawsuit Says US Environmental Agency Ignores Harm of Biofuel Production 100
America's First Solar Panel-Covered Irrigation Canals Planned in California, Arizona 53
Eating Less Meat 'Like Taking 8 Million Cars Off the Road' 373
Norfolk Coast Giant Offshore Windfarm Halted Due To Spiralling Costs 63
Heat Indices Above 105 Degrees for 80 Million Americans This Weekend 135
There's a Heatwave In the Sea and Scientists Are Worried 115
NOAA Confirms June Was Earth's Hottest on Record 139
Leaked UK Government Plan To Protect Against Climate Heat 'Very Weak' 59
How We Got Addicted To Weather Apps 51
Marker Proposed for the Start of the Anthropocene Epoch: Canada's Crawford Lake 23
Nanogenerator Harvests Ocean-Wave Energy 12
Bangladesh's Historic Heat Wave is Making Work 'Living Hell' For IT Workers 96
Europe Braces for Sweltering July 98
Climate Change is Making Our Oceans Change Color, New Research Finds 53
NASA Decides Not To Launch Two Already-Built Asteroid Probes 19
EU To Drop Ban of Hazardous Chemicals After Industry Pressure 74
Study the Risks of Sun-Blocking Aerosols, Say 60 Scientists, the US, the EU, and One Supercomputer 101
'Forever Chemicals' Taint Nearly Half of US Tap Water, Study Estimates 52
Why a Sudden Surge of Broken Heat Records is Scaring Scientists 147
UN Says Climate Change 'Out of Control' After Likely Hottest Week on Record 239
Tuesday Set an Unofficial Record For the Hottest Day On Earth 114
Japan May Start Controversial Fukushima Water Release Next Month 60
UK Plans To Drop Flagship $14.7 Billion Climate Pledge 99
World Registers Hottest Day Ever Recorded on July 3 126
Insects Could Help Turn Beer Waste Into Beef 59
Ecological Doom Loops: Why Ecosystem Collapses May Occur Sooner Than Expected 150
China on Course To Hit Wind and Solar Power Target Five Years Ahead of Time 80
Why the Internet's Going Wild For a 'Fish Doorbell' 42
After 47 Years, the National Weather Service's Daily TV Broadcast To Alaskans Will End 74
India To Cut Daytime Power Tariffs, Raise Fees For Night Use 79
Are Energy-Saving LED Lights Also Creating Glaring Problems? 53
Wind Power Seen Growing Ninefold as Canada Cuts Carbon Emissions 105
Heatwaves Are Stressing Out Power Grids All Over the World 111
Seaweed Farming For CO2 Capture Would Take Up Too Much of the Ocean 99
'Unheard of' Marine Heatwave Off UK and Irish Coasts Poses Serious Threat 84
A Finnish Firm Thinks It Can Cut Industrial Carbon Emissions By a Third 58
Researchers Argue Earth Formed Much Faster Than Believed, Suggest More Planets Could Have Water 17
Why EVs Won't Crash the Electric Grid 418
North America's Weather Turns Weird, Wild, and Extreme. Here's Why 124
Action To Tackle Air Pollution Failing To Keep Up With Research 40
Chipmakers Race To Curb Emissions as Demand Surges 24
Ocean Temperatures Are Off the Charts 216
California Wildfires Are Five Times Bigger Than They Used To Be 105
Will Submerging Computers Make Data Centers More Climate Friendly? 138
Arctic Could Be Sea Ice-Free in the Summer by the 2030s 67
Octopuses Can Rewire Their 'Brains' By Editing Their Own RNA On the Fly 18
India Pauses Plans To Add New Coal Plants For Five Years, Bets on Renewables, Batteries 93
Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions at All-Time High, Study Finds 147
Wildfire Smoke and Haze in the Eastern United States Should Peak This Week 77
First Steps Agreed on Plastics Treaty After Breakthrough at Paris Talks 43
What Stops Millions of Americans From Going Green: Their Landlords 169
Renewable Energy Could Use 50% Less Land, Study Suggests 63
China Begins Drilling a 10-Kilometer-Deep Hole In Earth's Crust 118
Tackling Plastic Pollution: 'We Can't Recycle Our Way Out of This' 70
Germany's Solar Power Generation Hit Record High at Weekend 90
Top Solar Firm Warns Excess Capacity Risks Wave of Failures 73
'Alien' Signal Beamed To Earth From Mars In SETI Test 46
France Bans Short-haul Flights To Cut Carbon Emissions 132
CEO of Biggest Carbon Credit Certifier To Resign After Claims Offsets Worthless 80
Big Polluters' Share Prices Fall After Climate Lawsuits, Study Finds 44
France Unveils Plan To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 50 Percent By 2030 107
Amount of Water Storage is Declining in Lakes Around the World 23
Developing Country Voices Will Be Excluded at UN Plastic Talks, Say NGOs 28
Florida Professor Breaks Record For Time Spent Living Underwater 43
Could Marine Energy Be the Final Frontier for Renewable Power? 175
Societal Cost of 'Forever Chemicals' About $17.5 Trillion Across Global Economy 62
Wind is Main Source of UK Electricity for First Time 97
'Mind-boggling' Methane Emissions From Turkmenistan Revealed 134
Yet Another Problem with Recycling: It Spews Microplastics 122
Bill Gates Visits Planned Site of 'Most Advanced Nuclear Facility in the World' 204
Ocean Temperatures Break Records. Scientists are Alarmed 139
Satellite Data Reveal 20,000 Previously Unknown Deep-Sea Mountains 17
As Sea Levels Rise, the East Coast is Also Sinking 131
VC Firms Create $60 Billion-plus Climate Tech Alliance With Backing From the UN 8
The North Seas Can Be the World's Biggest Power Plant 74
Another Ocean Climate Solution Attempted by California Researchers 84
CNN: Planet Earth 'Just Failed Its Annual Health Checkup' 111
'Devastating' Melt of Greenland, Antarctic Ice Sheets Found 108

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