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Want to live in a zero-carbon home? Maybe try Texas.
Austin, Texas — like Vancouver, Toronto, and other Canadian cities — has set itself aggressive targets to stop using fossil fuel-based energy.
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A solar eclipse could wipe out 9,000 megawatts of power supplies.
The eclipse set to darken skies next month threatens to sideline solar farms and rooftop panels in a wide swath of the U.S., wiping...
Big Oil just woke up to threat of rising electric car demand.
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Where will the next wildfire hit? No matter where, we’re not prepared.
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Elon Musk exposes deep coal divide in Australia.
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Christie vetoes oil train transparency bill.
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These 'missing charts' may change the way you think about fossil fuel addiction.
To address the twin threats of climate change and ocean acidification, nearly every nation has promised to reduce fossil fuel burning.
But so far, humanity...
New research uses satellites to predict end of volcanic eruptions
Infrared satellite data could be used to predict when lava flow-forming eruptions will end, researchers recently discovered.
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