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The death toll from the wildfire that incinerated Paradise and surrounding areas climbed to 29 — matching the mark for the deadliest single blaze in California history — as crews continued searching for bodies in the smoldering ruins, with nearly 230 people unaccounted for. Statewide ...
U.N. says Earth's ozone layer is healing as CFC curbs take hold
Earth's protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United Nations report said. The ozone layer had been thinning since the late 1970s. Scientists raised the alarm and ozone-depleting chemicals were phased out worldwide. As a result, the ...
The green lobby's misdirected anger
We can combat climate change only if we use our greatest natural resource: human ingenuity.
U.S. efforts to suck carbon from air must be ramped up: report
The nation needs to ramp up efforts to suck heat-trapping gases out of the air to fight climate change, a new U.S. report said. The report Wednesday from the National Academy of Sciences says technology to do so has gotten better, and climate change is ...
Solving global warming is mission impossible
Leaders have a hard time inflicting political pain now for possible future societal gains.
Immediate action is required to limit the rate of global warming, but history gives us little reason to be optimistic.
Latest climate science must mobilize us, not paralyze us
We urgently need to limit the increase in global temperature to within 1.5 degrees Celsius of the pre-industrial level.
Nobel Prize in economics 'will help' climate change movement, winner William Nordhaus says
The 2018 Nobel Prize in economics, which recognized a leading researcher into the effects of climate change, should give momentum to policies aimed at minimizing the damage, according to the Yale University professor who shared the award. "Yes it will help," William Nordhaus said Monday ...
Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to ...
Storm warning for the fossil fuel industry
This year's extreme weather will intensify political pressure on fossil fuel firms.
Marshall Islands marches toward zero greenhouse emissions by 2050
The Marshall Islands, an atoll-nation vulnerable to sea level rise from climate change, announced steps on Monday toward an ambitious plan to cut its greenhouse emissions to zero by 2050. The Pacific country became the first small island nation to present such a strategy to ...
Experts float idea of massive propping up of glaciers to avoid cataclysmic sea level rise
As global warming outpaces efforts to tame it, scientists have proposed building massive underwater structures to prevent an Antarctic glacier the size of Britain from sliding into the sea and lifting the world's oceans by several meters. The more modest of two engineering schemes — ...
