It's critical to go 'all in' on climate optimism.
I've been thinking a lot recently about catastrophic climate risk, because, well, how can you not?
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Energy Department puts national lab employees on notice of job cuts.
The Department of Energy approved plans to reduce the workforce of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Brookhaven National Laboratory by as many...
Against the stream: The future of the federal Clean Water Act.
High up in Washington’s Cascade Range, snow feeds the creeks that descend toward the coast, flowing intermittently in summer and gaining strength again the...
Flint water crisis to remain an issue through 2018 governor's election.
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The Flint water crisis promises to be a major issue in the 2018 Michigan governor's election. Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press
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Where is everybody? The implications of cosmic silence
Applying the principle of mediocrity to the Drake equation, a probabilistic estimate of the number of intelligent species in the universe, leads to the...
Trees and shrubs offer new food crops to diversify the farm
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Canary in a coal mine: Survey captures global picture of air pollution’s effects on...
Writing Aug. 11 in the journal Environmental Research Letters, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Tracey Holloway, an expert on air quality, and her former graduate...
North Korea aside, Guam faces another threat: Climate change.
By MIKE IVESAugust 11, 2017HONG KONG — The island of Guam made rare headlines this week when North Korea, responding to blustery language from President Trump,...
Welcome to paradise: Batteries now included.
When people ask Luke Evslin why he decided to live off the grid, he starts with the time he almost died.
Evslin grew up on...
Night vision for bird- and bat-friendly offshore wind power
ThermalTracker software analyzes video with night vision, the same technology that helps soldiers see in the dark, to help birds and bats near offshore...
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