Oregon’s Bootleg Fire offers lessons for a dried-out, overheated West
In the next few years, scientists will scrutinize the Sycan Marsh to see how the Bootleg Fire reacted to different types of forest management, which will help people understand how to tame wildfires.
Helping plants adapt to hotter climates will protect our food security
Scientists say we have barely scratched the surface on the potential of plants.
The future of beef might be in this gene edited calf
Meet Cosmo, a gene-edited calf taking on climate change.
Turning nuclear waste into fuel. It could happen
One lab’s nuclear waste is this California start-up’s fuel.
U.S. emissions dipped in 2019
The U.S. just got its climate report card for the year, and it's kinda OK.
Coal isn’t dying. It moved to Asia.
The world burns 65 percent more coal today than it did in 2000, according to the IEA’s new report.
71 percent of California voters 'very concerned' about climate change
The findings reflect increasing concerns about global warming across the country.
Will Impossible Burgers be the norm for Gen Z?
In one of those interchangeable American office parks, where oceans of blacktop pool around lowrise grey-on-grey buildings, a gaggle of kids in white lab coats gathered to apply temporary burger tattoos, conduct mini science experiments, and await the arrival of a radically transformed food system.
Shell shows how Big Oil cracks up over climate change
Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, recently dropped out of a D.C. lobby group, saying its lack of support for the Paris Agreement to fight climate change is a "material misalignment" with Shell's stance.
So what did California do with that $1.4 billion in cap-and-trade money?
Think of California as a kind of green Robin Hood. For six years now, it has been taking money from polluters and spending it to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, the state spent US$1.4 billion on such efforts. So where’s did all that money go? Here's what a state can buy when it starts taxing polluters.