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Trump Administration Forms Partnership to Bank DNA From Imperiled Species
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Europe’s Heat Has Scientists Asking: How Much Hotter Can It Get?
Records are being broken for the second time in a month, leading scientists to probe the upper limits of what […]
Why Is Europe the Fastest-Warming Continent
The burning of fossil fuels is raising temperatures worldwide, but local factors, on land and at sea, determine which regions […]
40 drown, Eiffel Tower closes, nuclear plant shut: France at centre of Europe’s heatwave crisis
Europe Created Heat-Wave Protections. Now Comes the ‘Crash Test.’
Searing temperatures in Western Europe are drawing comparisons to 2003, when a deadly heat wave sparked a reckoning.
Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Web Site
The database of federal global warming research recreates a website that was closed amid the administration’s broad retreat from climate […]
Energy Dept. Promises $17.5 Billion in Loans for Nuclear Power
The federal government wants to help utilities buy large components for up to 10 large nuclear reactors. It’s unclear which, […]
Interior Department Moves to Relax Rules for Drilling on Public Lands
A pair of proposals from the Trump administration would lower costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that drill […]
Why ecologists are concerned about the Great Nicobar Project
Is Climate Change Supercharging El Niño?
As a new, potentially record-breaking El Niño begins, researchers are vigorously debating whether climate change is driving the phenomenon’s intensity.