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Why the Paris Agreement won't succeed without agricultural innovationsIf the world is to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by 2100, greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector will need to be addressed 鈥� and in a whole new way.聽
Clean Power Plan challenge set for September. Is SCOTUS far off?The full appeals court in Washington will hear arguments in the legal fight over President Barack Obama's plan to curtail greenhouse gas emissions this fall, potentially accelerating the case's path to the Supreme Court.
First LookIconic sea turtle nesting season off to a great startLast year's nest totals in Georgia and the Carolinas were record-setting for loggerhead sea turtles. So far, this year's numbers are looking good as well.聽
First LookThe world's smallest porpoise is in trouble. Can the 'little cow' be saved?Conservationists are urging the Mexican and Chinese governments to take action to save the world's most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise.
Don't pet the Yellowstone bison, or put them in your carVisitors loaded the newborn bison calf into their SUV and brought it to a park facility. They were concern that it was too cold. Park rangers euthanized the calf after repeated attempts to reunite it with the herd.
Record-breaking April temperatures mark a 'climate emergency'El Ni帽o combined with already rising global temperatures to make April the latest of several 'hottest ever' months, according to NASA data. 2016 will likely be the hottest year on record.
Trump turns to global warming denier for energy policy guidanceDonald Trump asked for help is US Representative Kevin Cramer (R) of North Dakota, one of the country's most ardent oil and gas drilling advocates and climate change skeptics.
Hydropower鈥檚 next act: becoming a less-controversial renewableControversy over dams abounds. But聽hydropower experts see the potential for hydro to carve out an energy niche where power production and habitat protection coexist.
EPA to oil and gas industry: Watch your methane emissionsThe Obama administration announced Thursday the first steps ever taken to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas.
First LookWhy are hundreds of tiny red crabs swarming California beaches?Two beaches in Southern California have been inundated by hundreds of bright red and orange crabs, in what experts believe is an event linked to El聽Ni帽o.
America is building a wall 鈥� to keep out Asian carpA wall 鈥� a 2-mile-long earthen 'berm'聽鈥撀爄s the latest in an ongoing battle to keep invasive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.
Native American tribes pledge to save the monarch butterflyLeaders of seven Oklahoma tribes announced a plan to plant specific vegetation for the butterflies, whose numbers have plummeted in recent years.聽
First LookThe haves and have nots of clean air: Air pollution worst in developing worldImproving air quality for low-income nations would not only improve public health for millions of people, but would also help alleviate global greenhouse gas woes.
Why Nike is making most shoes from manufacturing wasteSeventy-one percent of Nike's footwear now contains materials made from ground-up shoes and scraps, the company said in a report on Wednesday.
First LookCould legal hunts be encouraging the poaching they're meant to preempt?A new study aims to disprove the often-cited conservation logic that allowing hunting of large carnivores discourages poaching.
First LookWater in California: back to business as usual?The Golden State is contemplating whether to end or extend water conservation efforts after a wet winter helped ease drought conditions.
First LookOne fifth of world's plants threatened by extinction, say scientistsThe future is bleak for Earth's plants, according to a global assessment of plant life. But successes seen in forest conservation lend hope.
Baby starfish stage big comeback in waters off Oregon and CaliforniaScientists are scrambling to determine the cause of the 'wasting disease' that turns sea stars into goo before it strikes this young generation.聽
First LookNo longer endangered? Montanans prepare for grizzly bear huntState wildlife officials in Montana released draft regulations Wednesday that would establish two hunting seasons near Yellowstone National Park as federal officials move closer to removing grizzly bears from the list of endangered species.
First LookCalifornia quake is overdue, but is that where we should be looking?The National Earthquake Conference has issued a warning about a quake along the southern San Andreas fault. But with California more prepared than ever, should our focus lie elsewhere?