Growth of Renewables Cut Europe’s CO2 Emissions By 10 Percent in 2015
Apr 4, 2017, 11:52 am By Yale e360The rapid deployment of renewable energy technology in the European Union has significantly reduced…Can We Find the World’s Remaining Peatlands in Time to Save Them?
Apr 4, 2017, 8:23 am By Yale e360Scientists were startled by the recent discovery of huge previously uncharted peatlands in Africa…Scientists Discover a New Source of Methane: Tree Trunks
Apr 3, 2017, 11:19 am By Yale e360Forests have long been seen as important sinks, or storage sites, for greenhouse gases. But…El Salvador Passes World’s First Total Ban on Metals Mining
Mar 31, 2017, 11:46 am By Yale e360El Salvador has become the first nation in the world to ban the mining of gold and other metals,…Climate Converts: The Conservatives Who Are Switching Sides on Warming
Mar 30, 2017, 8:34 am By Yale e360It’s hardly being noticed, given the current political atmosphere in Washington. But a growing…New Breeding Population of Critically Endangered Tigers Found in Thailand
Mar 29, 2017, 1:49 pm By Yale e360Wildlife cameras have captured a previously unknown population of Indochinese tigers living and…Trump Signs Executive Order Dismantling Federal Climate Policies
Mar 28, 2017, 3:45 pm By Yale e360President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive order reversing several major Obama-era…The Dark Legacy of China’s Drive for Global Resources
Mar 28, 2017, 8:41 am By Yale e360As China pursues a startling array of energy, mining, logging, agricultural, and infrastructure…Another Study Points to Climate Change’s Direct Role in Fueling Extreme Weather
Mar 27, 2017, 11:56 am By Yale e360Climate change is impacting major air currents that control extreme weather events, helping to power…Trump Administration Approves Permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline
Mar 24, 2017, 11:10 am By Yale e360The Trump administration has announced it is issuing a permit approving construction of the…Google Street View Cars Are Now Helping to Track Methane Leaks
Mar 23, 2017, 12:39 pm By Yale e360Google Street View cars have driven millions of miles across the globe, capturing 360-degree images…Northern Lights: Large-Scale Solar Power is Spreading Across the U.S.
Mar 23, 2017, 6:00 am By Yale e360Once largely confined to the sunny Southwest, utility-scale solar power plants are now being built…High Lead Levels Found in Children in Dozens of California Communities
Mar 22, 2017, 12:34 pm By Yale e360Children in more than two-dozen California communities have lead levels in their blood as high or…2017 U.S. Wildfire Season Off to an Intense Start
Mar 21, 2017, 12:32 pm By Yale e360Wildfires have consumed more than 2 million acres of U.S. land so far this year, nearly 10 times the…Union Chief Strikes Back at the ‘Insanity’ of Trump’s Budget Cuts at the EPA
Mar 21, 2017, 6:00 am By Yale e360In a Yale e360 interview, John O’Grady, head of the employees’ union at the U.S. Environmental…The 'Job-Killing' Fiction Behind Trump’s Retreat on Fuel Economy Standards
Mar 20, 2017, 6:00 am By Yale e360The Trump administration is expected to roll back the fuel economy standards that were a signature…World’s First Fluorescent Frog Found in the Amazon
Mar 17, 2017, 12:29 pm By Yale e360Scientists have discovered the world’s first known naturally fluorescent amphibian — the South…New Zealand River Legally Granted Same Rights as Humans
Mar 16, 2017, 12:36 pm By Yale e360New Zealand’s Parliament has declared that the country’s third-largest river, the Whanganui, has…Helping China Rethink Its Approach to Conservation
Mar 16, 2017, 6:00 am By Yale e360U.S. ecologist Gretchen Daily is working with the Chinese government to rethink its network of…Group of Republican U.S. Representatives Pledge to Combat Climate Change
1:50pm By Yale e360Seventeen Republican members of Congress signed a resolution Wednesday to look for “economically…
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