Climate Climate & Energy
All Stories
-
![rainforest]()
![rainforest]()
Growing forests gobble up carbon like growing teenagers raiding the fridge
Some secondary forests that regrow after deforestation can absorb up to 11 times more carbon than Amazonian old growth forests
-
![]()
![]()
Greenland is melting and dumping phosphorous into the Arctic Ocean
And as plankton munches on that phosphorous, its impact could ripple up the food chain.
-
![]()
![]()
Can California meet its climate goals without this major nuclear plant?
The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant provides one-tenth of California electricity, but it might be shut down.
-
![]()
![]()
Is the Zika outbreak connected to climate change?
A look at Zika, climate change, and whether the mosquito is spreading to the U.S.
-
![offshore drilling]()
![offshore drilling]()
Feds halt fracking off California coast, for now
The government will stop approving offshore drilling permits in California until an environmental review can be complete.
-
![]()
![]()
Asian coal plants are raining mercury down on the U.S.
Mercury levels in rainfall are rising in central parts of North America, a new study shows.
-
![]()
![]()
Record hot years near impossible without human-made climate change
There's just a 0.01 percent chance that recent run of global heat records could have happened due to natural climate variations, a new study shows.
-
![]()
![]()
Geoengineering simulation lets us play with the future
See what temperatures could look like 50 years from now if we start reflecting sunlight.
-
![]()
![]()
Leo DiCaprio wins award, pledges $15 million to the planet
He called out the "corporate greed of the coal, oil, and gas industries" in his acceptance speech for the Crystal Award.
-
![]()
![]()
2015 was record-busting hot, scientists say
Last year was the hottest year ever recorded, by a long shot.
