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Severity of North Pacific storms at highest point in over 1,200 years
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Maryland joins 8 other states in carbon emission cuts.
Maryland and eight other states plan to further tighten air pollution limits aimed at reducing global climate change.
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Worldwide 100 percent renewable energy possible by 2050, claims detailed new plan.
Everybody wants to change the world. Few of us publish research detailing exactly how to do it.
Stanford’s Mark Z. Jacobson, who led a 2015...
Nearly 140 countries could be powered entirely by wind, solar and water by 2050.
More than 70 per cent of the countries in the world – including the UK, US, China and other major economies – could run...
Factcheck: Misleading headlines about electric car charging while boiling the kettle.
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Group of nine states announces aggressive plan to cut emissions.
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New study finds that climate change costs will hit Trump country hardest.
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Climate Consensus - the 97%
In the USA, the southeastern states are most vulnerable to the costly impacts from human-caused climate change
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Sandy Garcia sits...
Breakthrough on nitrogen generation by researchers to impact climate-change research.
New research has yielded an ammonia-oxidizing microbe called Nitrospira inopinata. The process used to make fertilizer and an overapplication in agriculture has huge environmental...
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