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To find new biofuel enzymes, it can take a microbial village
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A fast reactor system to shorten the lifetime of long-lived fission products
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America's “Renaissance” to gains for renewables: Global energy trends.
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China aims to stop renewable energy being wasted by 2020.
(This November 13 story has been corrected to change figure in final paragraph to 1,100 gigawatts from 1.1 billion kilowatt-hours) FILE PHOTO: An...
Climate change upped the odds of Harvey’s extreme rains.
Rescue boats fill a flooded street as victims are evacuated from Harvey’s rising waters Aug. 28 in Houston. (David J. Phillip/AP)The extreme rains that inundated...
Climate change upped the odds of Harvey’s extreme rains, study finds.
Rescue boats fill a flooded street as victims are evacuated from Harvey’s rising waters Aug. 28 in Houston. (David J. Phillip/AP)The extreme rains that inundated...
Floating cities, no longer science fiction, begin to take shape.
Leer en españolBy DAVID GELLESNovember 13, 2017It is an idea at once audacious and simplistic, a seeming impossibility that is now technologically within reach: cities floating...
US will become a net oil exporter within 10 years, says IEA.
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International Energy Agency says US oil production between 2010 and 2025 will grow at a rate unparalleled in history
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'Tobacco at a cancer summit': Trump coal push savaged at climate conference.
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The US administration’s attempt to portray fossil fuels as vital to reducing poverty and saving US jobs is ridiculed in Bonn
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