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- If on some stretches of this barrier island the scars of Hurricane Sandy are fading, at a spot called Old Inlet, a physical reminder of the storm remains: a channel, now 856 feet wide, through which seawater pours into the Great South Bay.
- Coral reefs might be able to take the heat of climate change – if left well alone. A new study suggests reefs that are spared human interference can survive episodes of severe coral bleaching.
- In what could be a far-reaching move, the world's poorest countries say they are now prepared to commit themselves to binding cuts in their emissions of greenhouse gases.
- A rare type of floating offshore wind turbine is being tested about 1 km off the island of Kabashima, with some 110 households in Nagasaki Prefecture – part of an Environment Ministry test project to develop a low-cost floating wind power plant.
- French car company Peugeot has created a new hybrid car that could be twice as efficient and half as pricy as traditional battery hybrids. The secret? It runs on compressed air.
- Montanans need to look no farther than their own state to see the effects of global warming, a University of Montana professor said Thursday.
- Major changes to the food chain, weather and landscape of Antarctica have provided stark evidence of the impact of global warming, a report on a polar expedition has revealed.
- A wind farm developer is making one more effort to persuade state regulators that the turbines it wants to build will meet Wisconsin's noise standards.
- Boosted by the added moisture from warming air and ocean temperatures, the heaviest precipitation events — those that can cause dams to fail, rivers to spill over their banks, and cities to flood — are likely to become significantly heavier by the...
- Greenland's 2012 summer ice melt was the largest on record. Ice specialist Marco Tedesco visits Greenland every year, and, tired of trying to convey the science of the melting ice with graphs and statistics, he found someone who could turn his data...
- With the warming U.S. Arctic region poised for greater oil and mining development, the White House needs to develop a national strategy that can take environmental decisions on a larger scale, a report issued Thursday concluded.
- The share of coal in eastern Australia's electricity generation network has continued to recede, along with carbon emissions, despite a March heatwave that lifted power demand. The U.S. reports a similar trend in falling emission from the energy...
- The economic benefits to Canada from oilsands industrial expansion may be "considerably less" than Canadian government and industry representatives predict, if the planet collectively takes action to slash greenhouse gases contributing to global...
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation in the Philippines will be increased this year, an official of the Climate Change Commission said on Saturday.
- James Hansen, perhaps the world's most prominent and outspoken climate scientist, had told reporters in recent years that his retirement was coming. The 72-year-old researcher has made it official and will leave his job at a NASA research institute...
- Montanans already understand that climate change is affecting our daily lives. The argument isn't whether the world is changing, it's how to respond.
- Food as a battery—that is what we would like you now to consider. But before we get to the full expression of that proposal, we need to review exactly how batteries function, so you can appreciate the beauty, and potential innovation, made possible...
- As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, contaminating the surrounding ground, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Saturday.
- ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline break, spilling at least 12,000 barrels of heavy Canadian crude oil and water into an Arkansas neighborhood, may provide a real-world test of a hotly contested issue: Is tar sands oil more corrosive and damaging than...
- In the absence of statewide regulations for hydraulic fracturing, Southern California air-quality officials have enacted their own reporting rules for the controversial extraction process driving the country's oil and gas boom.
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