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- The coalition’s much-heralded deal to ensure people in flood-risk areas can obtain home insurance is a "nonsense" due to exemptions which mean small businesses and new-build properties will not be covered, a Government aide has warned.
- This year has been a bloody one for firefighters on the front lines against wildfires. With climate change intensifying fires, it may be time to change the way we fight them.
- Headlines may move markets, but the latest news on climate change has so far failed to disturb fossil-fuel investors. It's not for want of information. One week ago, this headline flashed across Wall Street traders' screens: "Fossil Fuels Need to...
- The combination of climate change and greater domestic consumption means Indonesia has less coffee to export to feed the global demand.
- Researchers are beginning to understand aerosols and clouds better. The result is to lower estimates of how much they cool the climate.
- HFCs represent only a small fraction of total greenhouse gases – and they are short-lived compared to CO2 – but they pack a real punch in terms of what scientists call "global warming potential," which they rate as many hundred times more powerful...
- Home refueling units, which tap into a house natural gas main and compress the fuel so it can fill a vehicle tank overnight, have been available for years, but are uncommon in the United States, held back by the upfront expense of buying and...
- In May, the company announced that it had repaid, nine years early, a $465 million loan it had received from the Department of Energy. Silicon Valley has always relied on the government to jump-start innovative businesses – no matter how much it...
- As the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its latest mega-report, averring a 95 percent certainty that humans are heating up the planet, there’s an unavoidable subtext: The growing number of humans on the planet in...
- Over the past decade, algal blooms have been common in Lake Erie. And scientists predict climate change could make the problem worse.
- Much of the coal China burns comes from Australia. The new Prime Minister down under intends to repeal Australia's carbon tax, leaving many worried about the country’s contribution to climate change.
- Transportation officials from around the world on Friday reached a preliminary agreement to develop global rules by the end of the decade that would control airline emissions. The action by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United...
- As Antarctic sea ice grows, the sea ice of the Arctic is shrinking dramatically. If the Earth is warming, and both ends of the planet are affected by climate change, why, then, are the two poles showing such different trends?
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases the first chapter of its new report on global warming. The findings are clear, but the politics remain murky.
- The US was on pace to achieve global energy domination on Friday, overtaking Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil and natural gas producer.
- The UN's civil aviation body has reached outline agreement on a global scheme to curb airline carbon emissions, casting a shadow over a rival EU plan to lower pollution from planes.
- The giant walleye pollock fishery is a huge success. But keeping it sustainable could become more complicated.
- As subsidized rates of federal flood insurance rise, property owners along the coasts get angry. But we need insurance that reflects the risks of a changing planet.
- LG&E wants to abandon coal in favor of natural gas and solar energy at a massive new Muhlenberg County power plant — another sign of coal’s slipping dominance as the fuel of choice for Kentucky electricity.
- TECO Energy's CEO feels the economic crush as he confronts slower increases in newcomers to the area at the same time his overall customer base continues to use less electricity. Why? More efficient appliances and lighting. Smaller homes. More solar...
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