As wind grows, so does its opposition.
Lawmakers in Oklahoma and other states are proposing new taxes and reduced subsidies on wind power, in part to help hurting budgets. Seen here...
Senate votes to confirm former Texas governor Rick Perry as energy secretary.
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources heard testimony from President-elect Trump's nominee for energy secretary, former Texas governor Rick Perry, Jan. 19....
Top Trump advisers are split on Paris agreement on climate change.
By CORAL DAVENPORTMarch 2, 2017WASHINGTON — The White House is fiercely divided over President Trump’s campaign promise to “cancel” the Paris agreement, the 2015 accord that...
Connecting with climate science
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Addendum: Biomass enables the transition to a carbon-negative power system across western North America
Nature Climate Change 5, 230–234 (2015); published online 9 February 2015; addendum published after print 2 March 2017.
The authors omitted to cite a paper32...
Forest Policy: Media influence on debate
Climatic Change http://doi.org/bzpd (2017)
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is an important instrument for mitigating climate change, particularly in forest-rich countries like...
Community action and climate change
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Forecasting societies' adaptive capacities through a demographic metabolism model
Regarding how precisely education contributes to vulnerability reduction, we build the argument upon a well-established causal link between education and health39, 40, 41, 42....
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The geographical distribution of the difference in observed surface temperature between the recent 25-year period 1991–2015 and the 30-year reference period 1961–1990 is shown...
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