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Image: UBC Media Relations via Flickr Buildings are currently the source of about one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Wooden[…]
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MORE HARMFUL HURRICANES
Climate change may be causing hurricanes to weaken more slowly and remain destructive for longer. One study showed that 50[…]
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SMART WINDOWS
Photo: Dennis Schroeder, NREL Transparent glass panes using special thermochromic materials coated on glass or sandwiched between glass panels can[…]
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WARMING WATERS
Increased heat from Arctic rivers is melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and warming the atmosphere. River heat is[…]
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GREEN STEEL
Steel production contributes 7-9% of the world’s direct emissions from fossil fuels. Demand is projected to increase with growing global[…]
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OCEAN BLESSING
Seawater air-conditioning [SWAC] involves pumping cold water from oceans at depths of below 700 meters and temperatures of 3 to[…]
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“PESKY NATURAL GAS”
Last summer oil and gas-industry groups lobbied to overturn federal rules on natural gas leaks, arguing they had emissions under[…]
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CLIMATE JUSTICE
In a major win for advocates who want fossil fuel giants to pay for their products’ devastating climate impacts, a[…]
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ZOMBIE WELLS
Inactive oil and gas wells are leaking methane and other pollutants. An enormous backlog of them has built up in[…]
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ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS
Scientists have derived design rules for light-absorbing dyes able to help make organic solar cells more efficient, while tailoring their[…]
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