The nuclear industry has faced numerous obstacles, most recently the backlash following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, in its efforts to build new nuclear plants in the U.S., and the Commission has issued recommendations on how to better protect U.S. reactors from earthquakes and floods. … Read More
In the face of public confusion, it's clearly important for journalists to keep talking about climate change. But how do we make it feel fresh when it's really been the same story, more or less, since the 1980's?… Read More
New projects abound with climate change themes, including J.J. Abrams' "Revolution", which was just picked up by NBC, and an indie-science flick called "Snow Piercer" that is slated to star Tilda Swinton. … Read More
A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter flies through the skies with the picture-perfect backdrop of a full moon and the U.S. Capitol. The picture, courtesy of NASA, was taken from Arlington National Cemetery. … Read More
Water supplies are sensitive to a lot of different factors, including extreme weather and an evolving climate. As global temperatures rise, regional changes could have a growing impact on access to clean water. … Read More
It's not easy to explain the relationship between extreme weather events, such as a record heat wave, and global climate change. Although emissions of greenhouse gases are making heat waves more common and more severe overall, you can't say that a specific event is due to global warming. … Read More
A warmer than usual January helped make this year's Polar Bear Plunge a little more, well, bearable, for this group's run into the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland during the Maryland State Police event. The Polar Bear Plunge is a charity function benefiting the Maryland State Special Olympics. … Read More
If you want to think about it another way, by one calculation, there were 19 times as many record highs set in January in the U.S. as record lows. We've had daffodils poking out of the ground. Can the crabgrass be far behind?… Read More
The CCS project proposed for Linden, NJ will use a process called gasification to convert coal into hydrogen.
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