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Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2

Green Guardians There's no shortage of worldwide efforts aimed at planting millions of more trees to help offset our planet's CO2-poisoned atmosphere. But entrepreneurial scientists at a biotech firm...

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Study Finds That Solar Power Is on Track to Dominate Electric Grids

Sun Rise Solar power is on track to become the dominant energy source in the world by 2050 — surpassing even fossil fuels — according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications....

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15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could Collapse By 2100 Due to Climate Change

Ring the Alarm Scientists are again ringing alarm bells over climate change's devastating effects on the planet — and this time, they're saying the Earth's rapidly changing environment may result in a...

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Global Warming Is Even Worse Than We Thought, Scientist Says

Climate Climb In 1988, climate scientist James Hansen shook the world when he famously testified before Congress that global warming was affecting our planet. Now, the former director of NASA's Goddard...

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As Climate Doom Looms, We're Drilling For More Fossil Fuels Than Ever Before

Drill, Baby, Drill A new United Nations report has found that despite promises to cut back, the world's top oil producers are on track to drill for more fossil fuels than ever before. Fittingly titled...

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Exxon Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did Climate Change

Nothing to See Here This just in: once again, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods has some thoughts on that whole pesky climate crisis. Bloomberg reports that in a Wednesday speech at the San Francisco-held...

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Scientists Say These Villains Are Causing Way More Than Their Share of...

Big Carbon As some climatologists fret over the morality of flying on an airplane, the richest among us haven't curbed their lifestyle due to any climate change concerns — and are actually spending far...

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Saudi Arabia Apparently Scheming to Get Poor Countries Addicted to Oil

False Note The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is publicly committed to curbing carbon emissions — but apparently that's just lip service, according to a new investigation that found the petrostate has plans...

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Carbon Dioxide Is Becoming More Fearsome, Scientists Find

Beat the Heat New research has found that the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide, the gas primarily responsible for making our planet hotter, becomes even more potent as as more of it is emitted. That...

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Head of Climate Conference Who Happens to Be an Oil Exec Says Actually Fossil...

An Emirati oil executive has landed in hot water after claiming that there's "no science" behind phasing out fossil fuels to keep global temperatures from creeping above 1.5 degrees Celsius, an...

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Scientists Warn That the Dubai Climate Conference Is Full of Crap

For the past two weeks, the world's best and brightest have been meeting in Dubai — under a glittering, color-changing dome built to resemble Islamic geometric art — as the petrostate hosts the United...

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Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many...

No Treegrets In 2019, ecologist Thomas Crowther sparked a global tree-planting craze to offset carbon emissions. But now the former chief scientific adviser for the United Nation's Trillion Trees...

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Billions in Funding Pouring Into Facilities for Sucking Carbon From Atmosphere

Buried Promises Despite pledges from countries to do better, some analysts think the world will keep burning fossil fuel for decades and even consume more of it in coming years — which isn't so cool...

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Scientists Simulated Runaway Greenhouse Effect and It's Horrifying

Greenhouse of Usher For the first time, a team of researchers has simulated what would happen if trapped greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere trigger a snowball effect, causing a dramatic rise in...

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Wildflowers Adapting to Insect Apocalypse by Pollinating Themselves,...

Wild Things The world is undergoing an insect apocalypse, with our buggy friends experiencing global mass population decreases at an estimated 2 percent yearly due to a woeful combination of climate...

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Satellites Show the East Coast Is Sinking

Sinking Feeling Carefully mapped satellite imagery shows that America's East Coast — particularly its major population centers — is sinking at an eerily rapid pace, according to a new study conducted...

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Scientists Attempt to Explain Craters Exploding Out of the Earth

Crater Creator Sudden and violent explosions have been leaving behind massive craters in the permafrost of Siberia — some nearly 70 feet wide and over 170 feet deep. The phenomenon has puzzled...

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Video Shows Huge Wave Smashing Military Base, Blowing Doors of Hinges

Wave Function Terrifying footage circulating on social media shows a massive rogue wave hitting a US military base in the Marshall Islands. The force of the water is immense, ripping doors off their...

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Scientists Working on Plan to Cool Earth by Blocking Sun

Giant Umbrella Scientists are exploring a wild idea to stop our planet from overheating: sending umbrellas into space to block the Sun's warming ways. And they're ready to put the idea to the test. As...

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NASA's Launches Mission to Study Earth's 'Invisible Universe'

Zooming Out After a nine year wait, NASA's finally launched its PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem) mission, which will take a never-before-seen look at the tiny life forms and...

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