G20 not yet doing enough to prevent dangerous climate change – campaigners
By Alex Whiting
LONDON, July...
Climate change action needs to go beyond Paris accord, Macron says
Climate change action need to go
beyond the 2015 Paris agreement, French President Emmanuel
Macron said on Thursday, in comments reinforcing his earlier
position on an...
China just built a 250-acre solar farm shaped like a giant panda
The Panda Power Plant in Datong, China.China Merchants New Energy/Panda Green Energy
Most solar farms align their solar arrays in rows and columns to form a grid.
A...
COMMENT: A new approach to emissions trading in a post-Paris climate
Despite the US withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, other countries, including New Zealand, remain committed to cutting their greenhouse gas...
OPINION: Paris Agreement: It is time for action
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For perhaps the first time ever, the world's oceans have a health record -- and it's revealing clues about what might be behind symptoms...
Three Gorges Dam alters downstream schistosomiasis rates
The Three Gorges Dam is a massive hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River in central China and became fully operational in 2010. Ecological...
How humans transformed wild wheat into its modern counterpart
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‘Weedy’ fish species to take over our future oceans
The ocean acidification expected in the future will reduce fish diversity significantly, with small ‘weedy’ species dominating marine environments, researchers have demonstrated for the...
Corn study: Food vs biofuel.
In the first study of its kind, Illinois researchers compared the cost of the entire life cycle of corn used as food to corn...
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