Carbon conversion
New carbon dioxide experiments may lead to artificial, renewable fuels, outlines new research. In chemical reactions performed in the lab, a research team has...
Temperatures rising: Achieving the global temperature goals laid out in the Paris Climate Agreement...
The Paris Climate Agreement of 2016, which saw 195 nations come together in the shared goal of ameliorating climate change, set forth an ambitious...
Standing Rock lawsuit started a year ago. Here’s where we are now.
On July 27, 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux filed a lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers for authorizing the construction of the 1,172-mile Dakota...
Ancient genomes show how maize adapted to life at high altitudes.
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Maize was first domesticated in Mexico around 4,000 years ago.
Genome sequences from nearly 2,000-year-old cobs of maize (corn) found in a Utah cave...
Florida is Ground Zero for impacts of sea level rise.
With its long coastline and its billions of dollars of property values, Florida is Ground Zero for climate change.
Evidence is around us, with flooding...
EPA will reject change that Trump backer Icahn sought.
Biofuels producers believed that if the EPA, whose headquarters is pictured here, had shifted the 'point of obligation' away from refiners it would cause...
Study: The fight against climate change added 41,000 jobs to the Inland economy.
More than $9 billion and 41,000 jobs have been added to the Inland economy as a result of California’s climate change initiatives, a new...
“This is nowhere near over”: Trump has an entirely different repeal-and-replace problem.
Rex Shutterstock/ZUMATwo years ago this week, President Barack Obama released his signature program on climate change, a broad plan for weaning power plants off coal,...
Republicans push bill to help 'carbon capture.'
The MonDak’s Republican lawmakers want to make it easier for certain types of oil and gas recovery projects to claim carbon sequestration tax credits.
Republican...
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