Earth Stories for 2024

New Rule Compels US Coal-Fired Power Plants To Capture Emissions - or Shut Down 90
Vast DNA Tree of Life For Plants Revealed By Global Science Team 10
Europe Baked in 'Extreme Heat Stress' Pushing Temperatures To Record Highs 112
What Happened After Amazon Electrified Its Delivery Fleet? 202
Startup is Building the World's Largest Ocean-Based Carbon Plant - and It's Scalable 57
Could the Earth's Record Hot Streak Signal a New Climate Era? 170
Data Centers Are Turning to an Old Source of Power: Coal 58
Ocean Spray Emits More PFAS Than Industrial Polluters, Study Finds 74
What Caused the Storm That Brought Dubai To a Standstill? 63
Average World Incomes To Drop By Nearly a Fifth By 2050, Study Says 123
World's Coral Reefs Hit By a Fourth Mass Bleaching Event, NOAA Says 57
Emissions Dropped 1.8% Every Year in California's Bay Area. Researchers Credit EVs 164
California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery 169
Cloud Brightening Research Begins in California 60
Saudi Arabia 'Forced To Scale Back' Plans For Desert Megacity 199
March Marks Yet Another Record In Global Heat 158
One of Disneyland's Longest-Running Attractions is Ditching Fossil Fuels 99
US Energy Department Announces 'Blueprint' for Slashing Emissions From Buildings and Reducing Energy Use 76
Wait, Does America Suddenly Have a Record Number of Bees? 77
US Invests $20 Billion More to Finance Clean-Energy Projects 86
Heat-Trapping CO2, Methane Levels In the Air Last Year Spiked To Record Highs 81
Amazon Still Has a Serious Plastic Waste Problem in the US 36
Only 57 Companies Produced 80% of Global Carbon Dioxide 167
Record Heat in Europe, Asia Closes Another Extremely Warm Month For Planet 91
After Outer Space, 93-Year-Old William Shatner Leads Cruise to Antarctica 51
Bill Gates Says Texas Shows America's Clean-Energy Future 120
'Garbage Lasagna': Dumps Are a Big Driver of Warming, Study Says 61
Methane From Landfills Is a Big Driver of Climate Change, Study Says 128
A Faster Spinning Earth May Cause Timekeepers To Subtract a Second From World Clocks 118
California's Successful Dam-Removal Project Continues 120
Say Hello To Biodegradable Microplastics? 60
A Problem for Sun-Blocking Cloud Geoengineering? Clouds Dissipate 57
Security and Climate Change Drive a Return To Nuclear Energy as Over 30 Nations Sign Summit Pledge 89
Geologists Reject Declaration of Anthropocene Epoch 41
Higher Temperatures Mean Higher Food and Other Prices 96
E-Waste Is Growing 5x Faster Than It Can Be Recycled, Says UN 74
Only Seven Countries Meet WHO Air Quality Standard, Research Finds 56
Global Ocean Heat Has Hit a New Record Every Single Day For the Last Year 130
Did the Plastic Industry Knowingly Push Recycling Myths For Decades? 101
Playing Thriving Reef Sounds On Underwater Speakers 'Could Save Damaged Corals' 31
'Larger Than Everest' Comet Could Become Visible To Naked Eye This Month 54
No Big North Sea Fossil Fuel Country Has Plan To Stop Drilling in Time For 1.5C Goal 151
How China Came To Dominate the World in Solar Energy 101
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' To Officially Be Removed from Food Packaging, FDA Says 39
Earth Has Its Warmest February Ever - the 9th Record-Setting Month in a Row 91
Microscopic Plastics Could Raise Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack, Study Says 57
Satellite To 'Name and Shame' Worst Oil and Gas Methane Polluters 53
The Arctic Ocean Could Be 'Ice-Free' Within the Decade, Researchers Warn 117
New Ratings for the 'Greenest' Car in America Might Surprise You 199
How AI is Taking Water From the Desert 108
Helium Discovery In Northern Minnesota May Be Biggest Ever In North America 34
Carbon Emissions Reached Record High in 2023, IEA Says 72
Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Began Melting In Mid-20th Century, Study Finds 60
US Court Stalls Energy Dept Demand For Cryptocurrency Mining Data 103
Microplastics Found In Sediment Layers Untouched By Modern Humans 45
The Sun Just Launched Three Huge Solar Flares in 24 Hours. 50
Switzerland Calls On UN To Explore Possibility of Solar Geoengineering 92
Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of EPA's 'Good Neighbor' Rule on Power Plant Pollution 98
Ocean Temperatures Are Skyrocketing 110
Could Solar Water Heaters Become Popular Again? 123
Scientists Resort To Once-Unthinkable Solutions To Cool the Planet 205
California Banned Single-Use Plastic Bags. Now It's Tossing More Plastic. 192
Computer Simulations of Atlantic Ocean Currents Finds Collapse Could Happen in Our Lifetime 128
Clean Jet Fuel Startup Fires Up New Carbon Converter 41
After 1.5-Degree Temperature Rise, What Happens Next? 128
Recycling Plants Start Installing Trash-Spotting AI Systems 60
SpaceX Launches NASA's PACE Satellite To Study Earth's Oceans, Air and Climate 7
World's First Year-Long Breach of Key 1.5C Warming Limit 302
EPA Tightens Rules On Some Air Pollution For the First Time In Over a Decade 59
Making Farming More Climate-Friendly Is Hard. Just Ask Europe's Politicians. 186
The EU Proposes Slashing Pollution 90 Percent by 2040 95
Across America, Clean Energy Plants Are Being Banned Faster Than They're Being Built 200
The Fossil Fuel Industry Knew About Climate Change Since 1954 266
Could We Fight Global Warming With A Giant Umbrella in Outer Space? 194
'Massive Amounts' of Carbon Sequestered for Centuries Released By Clearing Indonesia's Peatland 130
Climate Change Cripples Panama Canal. Fixing it Could Take Years 148
Exxon Takes Activists To Court Over Emissions Proposal 77
'For Truckers Driving EVs, There's No Going Back' 153
Crime Rings Are Trafficking in an Unlikely Treasure: Sand 53
Cop28 Deal Will Fail Unless Rich Countries Quit Fossil Fuels, Says Climate Negotiator 184
Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster Than Scientists Previously Estimated, Study Finds 86
Human 'Behavioral Crisis' At Root of Climate Breakdown, Say Scientists 300
Can Pumping CO2 Into California's Oil Fields Help Stop Global Warming? 83
America Cracks Down on Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Facilities 36
2023 Was Hottest Year Ever Recorded Globally, US Scientists Confirm 114
Beaver Ponds May Exacerbate Warming In Arctic, Scientists Say 95
Earth Shattered Global Heat Record In 2023 227
The Land is Steadily Sinking Up and Down America's Atlantic Coast 85
AI and Satellite Imagery Used To Create Clearest Map Yet of Human Activity At Sea 5
Germany's Emissions Hit 70-Year Low As It Reduces Reliance on Coal 220
2023 Will Be Remembered as the Year Climate Change Arrived 159