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US senate committee votes to reinstate funding to UN climate treaty
The US senate appropriations committee, which is lead by Republicans, has voted to contribute $10 million to the UN treaty organisation that oversees the Paris...
Record drop in electricity emissions cancelled out by rises in other sectors
Australia’s most polluting generator, the Hazelwood power station in Victoria, may have closed, but overall emissions in 2016-17 were the highest since 2011. Photograph:...
Climate change and hurricanes: Is Irma a sign of things to come?
Hurricane Irma is the most powerful storm ever recorded over the Atlantic.Did climate change make it more deadly? Maybe a little but not as...
OPINION: Big Oil must pay for climate change. Now we can calculate how much...
‘As we found in the 2008 financial crisis, allowing companies to make private profits while society at large underwrites the risk ends badly for...
Extreme weather has limited effect on attitudes toward climate policies
People who recently experienced severe weather events such as floods, storms and drought are more likely to support policies to adapt to the effects...
Eighteenth century nautical charts reveal coral loss
Centuries-old nautical charts, mapped by long-deceased sailors to avoid shipwrecks, have been used by modern scientists to study loss of coral reefs. A new...
The sand trap: Demand outpaces caution, knowledge
Sand, spanning miles of beaches, carpeting vast oceans and deserts, is a visual metaphor for limitless resources. Yet seize another metaphor -- sand in...
Courts’ critical, underappreciated role in climate policy
Both climate lawsuits and their reliance on scientific data have increased over the past decade, the most extensive study to date shows.
New acid-free magnet recycling process created
A new rare-earth magnet recycling process dissolves magnets in an acid-free solution and recovers high purity rare earth elements.
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