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Alphabet turns to molten salt to store clean energy.
Using giant vats of molten salt and antifreeze under the codename “Malta,” Google's parent company Alphabet is joining Tesla and smaller companies that are...
A plant dies, and some ask if nuclear can help the climate.
Nuclear power plants provide 60 percent of America's carbon-free electricity. But efforts to increase that figure were dealt a serious blow this week when...
Study finds human influence in the Amazon's third 1-in-100 year drought since 2005.
Climate change
Climate Consensus - the 97%
Deforestation and climate change appear to be amplifying droughts in the Amazon
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Aerial view of a drought-affected area within the...
Cities are already suffering from summer heat. Climate change will make it worse.
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Tina Johnson has a sense of place. She’s a fourth-generation New Yorker who lives in the same apartment in West...
How extreme could temperatures become in Texas?
By the end of the century, if no action is taken on climate change, some parts of Texas could experience 95-degree temperatures for nearly...
Keystone XL: Low oil prices, tar sands pullout could kill pipeline plan.
It will be close to three years, at least, before oil could possibly be moving through the controversial Keystone XL pipeline—if the pipeline is...
Effective climate protection means better policy and harnessing market forces.
Carbon capture seems to be a win-win — curbing climate-warming emissions without stifling the lionized coal industry.
However, recent high-profile failures have raised doubts about...
EPA staffers are being forced to prioritize energy industry's wish list, says official who...
EPA staffers are spending their days addressing an industry wish list of changes to environmental law, according to Elizabeth Southerland, a former senior agency official who...
$1bn to clean up the oil in Peru’s northern Amazon.
Environment
Andes to the Amazon
Over four decades of exploration and extraction have caused an environmental and health crisis in indigenous communities
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Protestors in the Saramurillo indigenous...
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