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‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse
The Golden State’s clean energy use hit new highs in 2025. As the Trump administration abandons US climate initiatives, can California fill the void?As officials...
What a crumbling power grid means for disabled Americans
During the power outage following the winter storms of 2021 — known in Texas as Winter Storm Uri — Rita, an Indigenous woman who lives with...
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis
Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerableHow climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril...
Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste
Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far more radioactive than previously known.By...
In Murphy’s Final Weeks, NJ Climate Advocates Race to Lock in 100 Percent Clean Power
A bill would harden the state’s 2035 clean-electricity goal into statute, tighten pollution rules for power plants and confront rising demand from data centers.By Rambo...
How Proposed Changes to the Endangered Species Act Could Further Threaten the Country’s Imperiled Species
The Trump administration is working to systemically unravel protections for endangered species. Environmental groups are pushing back. By Kiley PriceA polar bear stood outside the...
Was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero?
From retailers to banks, carmakers to councils, the bold pledges for carbon-neutral economies are being watered down or scrappedAlmost a year since Donald Trump returned...
Carbonic Fluids Drive Continental Carbon Cycling as Revealed by the Geochemistry of the Eclogite‐Garnet Peridotite Interface
Abstract Subduction zones regulate Earth’s carbon distribution, yet the mechanism of carbon transfer from continental crust to mantle remains elusive. We examined an eclogite‐garnet peridotite...
The Global Propagation of Hiss Waves Originating From Dynamic Plasmaspheric Plume
Abstract Hiss waves play a critical role in shaping Earth’s radiation belts and mediating magnetosphere‐ionosphere energy transfer. Intense hiss emissions are frequently generated within dynamic...
Separating Multi‐Decadal and Interannual Dynamics in the North Pacific‐Stratospheric Polar Vortex Relationship and Their Teleconnection to the North Atlantic
Abstract This study reveals distinct co‐variability between the North Pacific and the North Atlantic‐European (NAE) region at multi‐decadal and interannual timescales using reanalysis data. On...
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The World’s Last Flock of Wild Whooping Cranes Gets More Living Space
Once on the brink of extinction, these birds are expanding their grounds on an isolated stretch of the Gulf Coast in Texas.By Dylan BaddourOn an...
The extent of drought determines daily area burned in Canadian forests
Annual or seasonal wildfire burned area has been frequently and successfully estimated by models in fire research; daily area burned (DAB) over a region, however,...
Exposure of global agricultural lands to extreme weather using CMIP6 projections of future climate
As climate change intensifies, extreme weather is becoming a major threat to global food security. Yet we still lack a good understanding of how these...
Characterising the range and outliers in CMIP6 multi-model climate projections of extremes
Climate projections made using ensembles of model simulations typically present spatial information using ensemble-average changes. However, quantifying and understanding spread in model projections, along with...
U.S. senator asks <cite>Science</cite> to provide its coronavirus manuscripts, emails
Rand Paul has blasted government science officials and scientists over COVID-19’s origin
Private donors pledge $1 billion to CERN for future atom smasher
Benefactors agree to help support next-generation particle accelerator, but billions more are needed
Trump’s EPA Focus: Delay, Rescind, Dismantle Environmental and Health Protections
For the first time in the agency’s 55-year history, Congress has ceded its responsibility to oversee the EPA to a single politician who sanctioned its...
Shaming climate wrongdoers
Climate law, policy, and governance have grown substantially in recent years, yet these efforts have achieved only modest success. This article spotlights an underexplored complementary...
Observations and modeling reveal that heatwaves reduce photosynthesis, plant carbon reserves, and net carbon uptake
Heatwaves threaten ecosystem carbon balances, yet the mechanisms driving short-term carbon flux responses remain poorly understood. Here, integrating high-frequency eddy covariance (EC) data from 140...
A simple policy corrected pervasive gender imbalance in Ph.D. awards at Dutch university
Eindhoven University of Technology’s success sets example for other institutions to follow, researchers say
Diane Wilson Takes on Another Plastics Plant in Texas
Wilson’s Gulf Coast environmental group filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue Dow for chronic discharge of plastics from its enormous Seadrift chemical complex.By...
Inverted age-pyramidal global hourly population heat exposure
Population heat exposure has increased substantially, resulting in serious effects on human health. However, all previous assessments on global-scale heat exposure focused on the daily...
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