Bill that would ease retirement of coal plants passes Colorado House but faces tougher...

Paul Aiken, Daily Camera Xcel Energy stopped burning coal at the Valmont Power Plant in Boulder on March 3, 2017. A bill that would make it...

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You cannot get far today with electric cars. One reason is that the batteries require a lot of space. Scientists are stacking large cells...

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Scientists have developed a promising way to recycle the popular carbon fiber plastics that are used in everything from modern airplanes and sporting goods...

Climate instability over the past 720,000 years

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Antarctic ice rift spreads

The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica now has a second branch, which is moving in the direction of the ice...

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Solar cells based on perovskites reach high efficiencies: they convert more than 20 percent of the incident light directly into usable power. On their...

Antarctic Peninsula ice more stable than thought

Glacier flow at the southern Antarctic Peninsula has increased since the 1990s, but a new study has found the change to be only a...

Effective climate change action needs technology and policy.

Tens of thousands of people participated in the People’s Climate March on April 29th to demand policies that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, respect...

Carbon tax supporters seek to sway conservatives with new climate ads.

President Donald Trump has a notorious for appetite for cable news, and this week, a bipartisan group hopes to catch his attention when it...

Reversing climate change? California author offers 100 reasons to hope.

Global climate change is a such a dramatic and vast event, it can be hard to find reasons to believe we can change the momentum. Environmentalist...

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