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New Zealand to help pay for cleaner cars to reduce emissions
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s government said Monday it will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old…
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Farming Drives Toward ‘Precision Agriculture’ Technologies
This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Across Midwestern farms, if Girish Chowdhary…
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Menaced by flames, nuclear lab peers into future of wildfire
LOS ALAMOS N.M. — Public schools were closed and evacuation bags packed this week as a stubborn wildfire crept within…
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The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States
The Sacramento is California’s largest river. It arises near the lower slopes of Mt. Shasta, in the northernmost part of…
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Most Great Barrier Reef coral studied this year was bleached
Australian government scientists say 91% of the Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached in the fourth mass…
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The Portable, Off-Grid 3D Gigalab Can Turn Trash Into Treasure
When the pandemic hit, the supply chain broke. Not only was it hard to ship regular goods, but the global…
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A New Gas-Guzzling Postal Fleet Could Be Halted by Lawsuits
This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The saga of the United…
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Planting trees rather than bioenergy crops sucks more CO2 from the air
Compared with capturing the CO2 released by burning bioenergy crops, planting forests will lock away more carbon while also causing…
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These are the five most extreme heatwaves since records began
Two of the world’s five most extreme heatwaves occurred in the US, with the others in South-East Asia, Brazil and…
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