Major solar power project to provide electricity at night
A major solar power project in the Middle East will provide electricity during the night, the developers have said.
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Who Pays for the Rising Cost of Natural Disasters: Quick Take Q&A
A man carries his girlfriend on his back to cross a flooded street in Shenyang, China on July 14.
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'Grow food on Mars': LA startups tackle climate change with inventive solutions
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Dozens of startups are inventing ways to keep LA cool with products and services that aim to avert environmental disaster – and yield...
Wind Energy Proves To Be Good Fit On New York Farm
A farm owner in New York State is touting the advantages of the two Northern Power wind turbines powering his Sonshine Acres Farm.
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Carbon dioxide must be removed from the atmosphere to avoid extreme climate change, say...
Humans must start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as soon as possible to avoid saddling future generations with a choice between extreme climate...
Health insurance costs threaten farm viability
64 percent of American farmers have preexisting conditions, research has found. A lack of access to affordable health insurance is a major worry and...
Did life begin on land rather than in the sea?
A new discovery pushes back the time for the emergence of microbial life on land by 580 million years and also bolsters a paradigm-shifting...
Titan simulations show importance of close two-way coupling between human and Earth systems
By using supercomputers such as the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Titan, a large multidisciplinary team of scientists developed a new integrated climate model...
3-D models help scientists gauge flood impact
Using one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, a research team performed one of the first highly resolved, 3-D, volume-of-fluid Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations...
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