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Yes, Some Predict Twice As Many Earthquakes in 2018. No, You Shouldn’t Worry.

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Yes, Some Predict Twice As Many Earthquakes in 2018. No, You Shouldn’t Worry.

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By 2040, Hundreds of Millions May Be Affected By River Floods Across the World

Fast Radio Bursts Have a Unique Property That Can Help Us Determine Their Source

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Fast Radio Bursts Have a Unique Property That Can Help Us Determine Their Source

By Kristin Houser

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Sea Turtles Under Threat as Climate Change Turns Most Babies Female

By Patrick Caughill

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New York Sues Big Polluters and Divests Pension Funds From Fossil Fuels

A Deal Between a Chinese Smartphone Giant and AT&T Hit a Major Roadblock

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A Deal Between a Chinese Smartphone Giant and AT&T Hit a Major Roadblock

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Genetically Modified Algae Could Be Key to Tomorrow’s Bio Solar Cells

By Chelsea Gohd

Tesla’s Solar Roofing Tiles Have Officially Begun Production in Its Buffalo Factory

Tesla’s Solar Roofing Tiles Have Officially Begun Production in Its Buffalo Factory

By Patrick Caughill

This Year, We’ll See a Black Hole for the First Time in History

This Year, We’ll See a Black Hole for the First Time in History

By Kristin Houser

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Marine Food Webs Are on the Brink of Collapse Because of Climate Change

By Chelsea Gohd

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We Now Have Direct Proof That Human Activity Can Heal the Ozone Hole

By Chelsea Gohd

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For Coastal Communities, the 1.5C Climate Goal Is a Matter of Life or Death

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2017 Saw the Costliest Disasters in U.S. History

By Chelsea Gohd

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Get Involved: DataRescue Events Are Being Scheduled to Preserve Climate Data

By Jolene Creighton

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Last Year, Britain Generated Twice as Much Energy From Wind as Coal

By Chelsea Gohd

How Einstein’s “Spooky Action” Could Help Secure Quantum Networks

How Einstein’s “Spooky Action” Could Help Secure Quantum Networks

By Chelsea Gohd

Research into the genome continually uncovers things we don't know.

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New Genome Research in Plants Could Help Fight Human Disease

By Chelsea Gohd

Scientists Are Rethinking the Very Nature of Space and Time

Scientists Are Rethinking the Very Nature of Space and Time

By Kristin Houser

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This Inexpensive Battery Could Revolutionize the Clean Energy Industry

A Lack of Oxygen Is Creating More Ocean “Dead Zones”

A Lack of Oxygen Is Creating More Ocean “Dead Zones”

By Claudia Geib

A Wave of Climate Refugees Could Soon Emerge in the US

A Wave of Climate Refugees Could Soon Emerge in the US

By Chelsea Gohd

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Trump Gives Green Light for Offshore Drilling Near Every U.S. Coast

By Lou Del Bello

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DARPA and NASA Form a Partnership to Create New Satellites

By Chelsea Gohd

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California Is Officially Planning to Ban Polluting Cars by 2040

By Chelsea Gohd

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Norway Gets the Go Ahead to Drill Into the Arctic

Cleaning up Coal May Buy Us Time as We Transition to Renewables

Cleaning up Coal May Buy Us Time as We Transition to Renewables

By Patrick Caughill

Beyond Mining: Blockchain Boosts Solar Exchange Markets

Beyond Mining: Blockchain Boosts Solar Exchange Markets

By Lou Del Bello

Parallel Universes Could Solve One of the Biggest Mysteries in Physics

Parallel Universes Could Solve One of the Biggest Mysteries in Physics

2017 Broke Another Heat Record — but There’s Hope for Future Years

2017 Broke Another Heat Record — but There’s Hope for Future Years

By Lou Del Bello

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DARPA Launches Subterranean Challenge to Improve Underground Ops

By Chelsea Gohd

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Climate Change Places a Major Economic Burden on Future Generations

By Chelsea Gohd

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Not All Geoengineering Is as Terrifying as You May Think

By Lou Del Bello

Renewable energy could be produced with nuclear fusion.

Renewable Energy

ITER Nuclear Reactor May Be The “Holy Grail” of Limitless Renewable Energy

Macro grids will solve some energy supply problems.

Renewable Energy

Macro Grids May Be the Future of Renewable Energy

By Lou Del Bello

Microbial life could travel through space via dust.

Science & Energy

Dust Collisions Could Transport Microbial Life to Other Planets

By Keith Cooper

It Doesn’t Matter How Cold it is Today. Global Warming is Killing People.

It Doesn’t Matter How Cold it is Today. Global Warming is Killing People.

By Lou Del Bello

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New Airplane Design Uses Less Fuel, Reducing Noise and Air Pollution

By Kristin Houser

Artificial Island Hub Will Collect Wind Energy and Divert it to Shore

Artificial Island Hub Will Collect Wind Energy and Divert it to Shore

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US to Reverse Offshore Drilling Regulations, Leaving the Environment Vulnerable

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One Chinese City Is Setting the Standard for Electric Public Transportation

By Chelsea Gohd

2017 Ushered in the Greenest Year Ever for the United Kingdom

2017 Ushered in the Greenest Year Ever for the United Kingdom

By Patrick Caughill

New Device Lets Scientists Explore Physics Near Absolute Zero

New Device Lets Scientists Explore Physics Near Absolute Zero

By Chelsea Gohd

Bioengineers Found a Way to Create 3D Shapes From Living Tissue

Bioengineers Found a Way to Create 3D Shapes From Living Tissue

By Chelsea Gohd

Here’s What the Experts Make of Trump Removing Climate Change from the National Security Strategy

Here’s What the Experts Make of Trump Removing Climate Change from the National Security Strategy

By Patrick Caughill

Researchers Stumble Upon a New Type of Quantum Material

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Researchers Stumble Upon a New Type of Quantum Material

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Graphene Running Shoes Could Up Your Jogging Potential

By Chelsea Gohd

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Science & Energy

Rethinking Aliens: We Found Life in a Place Once Considered Sterile

By Lou Del Bello

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Climate Change Is Going to Drive Thousands of Refugees to Cooler Countries

By Lou Del Bello

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United Nations’ Treaty Protecting High Seas May Be a Reality in 2020

By Lou Del Bello

Alien life could exist on planets and moons in our galaxy like this one.

Science & Energy

Alien Life Could Exist in Buried Oceans Throughout the Galaxy

China Reveals Ambitious Plan to Create World’s Largest Carbon Market

Renewable Energy

China Reveals Ambitious Plan to Create World’s Largest Carbon Market

By Lou Del Bello

A New Lensless Camera Transforms How Scientists See the Cosmos

A New Lensless Camera Transforms How Scientists See the Cosmos

Thousands Were Saved Between 1990 and 2012 as Air Pollution Declined

Thousands Were Saved Between 1990 and 2012 as Air Pollution Declined

By Chelsea Gohd

Synthetic Rhino Horns

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Synthetic Rhino Horns Are Being Created to Flood Markets and Eradicate Poaching

By Patrick Caughill

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Coal Power Plants Are More Than Just an Environmental Burden — They’re Economically Cumbersome, Too

Solar panels printed with inkjet printers could power small devices.

Living Ink Solar Panels Could Power Small Devices

By Lou Del Bello

Physicists Have Discovered a Way to Track Unobserved Quantum Particles

Physicists Have Discovered a Way to Track Unobserved Quantum Particles

By Chelsea Gohd

France Just Passed a Ban on Fracking and Oil Extraction

France Just Passed a Ban on Fracking and Oil Extraction

By Lou Del Bello

Solar panels could help with Canada's fuel problems.

Solar Panels Are Replacing Diesel Fuel in Canada’s Far North

By Lou Del Bello

Buried in the GOP Tax Law Is a Mandate for Arctic Drilling

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Buried in the GOP Tax Law Is a Mandate for Arctic Drilling

By Lou Del Bello

The Arctic Is Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the Globe

The Arctic Is Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the Globe

By Lou Del Bello

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China’s First Solar Highway is Nearly Complete, May Soon Be Able to Charge Electric Cars

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Two Layers of Graphene Make Diamond-Hard Armor That Can Stop a Bullet

Scientists Are Engineering Carbon-Storing Plants to Fight Climate Change

Scientists Are Engineering Carbon-Storing Plants to Fight Climate Change