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Geoscientists have long puzzled over the mechanism that created the Tibetan Plateau, but a new study finds that the landform's history may be controlled...
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Twenty years ago, a microbiologist and colleagues discovered a unique system that some microorganisms use to digest and recycle wood. Three orders of 'brown...
Could ‘cocktail geoengineering’ save the climate?
Geoengineering is a catch-all term that refers to various theoretical ideas for altering Earth's energy balance to combat climate change. New research from an...
As temperatures rise, poor Americans are thrust into the thick of it.
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Climate change will fall hardest on low-income Americans, who are more likely to walk to work and toil outdoors...
Inside China’s plan for a massive forest-covered city.
Liuzhou, an industrial city in southern China, looks like a typical modern Chinese metropolis, filled with concrete high-rises and often shrouded in smog. But...
‘Hindcasting’ study investigates the extreme 2013 Colorado flood
Using a publicly available climate model, researchers 'hindcast' the conditions that led to the Sept. 9-16, 2013 flooding around Boulder, Colo. and found that...
Volkswagen to assemble electric cars in Rwanda.
By Michel NkurunzizaRwanda Environment Management Authority has said that the plan by the German car maker 'Volkswagen' to assemble electric cars as part of...
Editorial: Policing California’s most precious resource.
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In this photo taken July 15, 2015, water flows down a canal near Byron.
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An unconventional new captain for California’s water agency.
California Gov. Jerry Brown last week appointed Grant Davis as director of the state’s Department of Water Resources. Davis, 54, general manager of the...
BMW denies diesel cheating as EU, Germany probe auto cartel.
BMW AG sought to defuse concerns about possible collusion with other German automakers by rejecting allegations of cheating on diesel emissions and downplaying talks...
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