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Podcast: What To Do With CO2

Published: March 1st, 2011
Last revised: March 1st, 2011

Podcast: Balancing an Emissions Budget

Published: August 23rd, 2010
Last revised: December 9th, 2010

Podcast: Grappling with America’s Difficult Climate Choices

Published: July 29th, 2010
Last revised: July 29th, 2010

Nuclear power in the future won’t be ‘too cheap to meter’

Published: April 26th, 2010
Last revised: July 19th, 2010

Greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear electricity: low, but not zero

Published: April 26th, 2010
Last revised: August 13th, 2010

Woody plants can be turned into low-carbon fuel

Published: September 2nd, 2009
Last revised: July 18th, 2010

Energy efficiency can reduce CO2 emissions at a net profit

Published: May 19th, 2009
Last revised: July 18th, 2010

Trimming energy waste could provide a third of the CO2 cuts many experts say are needed by mid-century

Published: May 19th, 2009
Last revised: July 18th, 2010

News, Blogs & Features

May 17th, 2013 - Weather Service to Add Major Might to Computing Power
May 17th, 2013 - The U.S.: A Nation Divided By Drought
May 16th, 2013 - Study: 97 percent Agreement on Manmade Global Warming
May 16th, 2013 - Smaller Glaciers Boost Sea Level as Much as the Giants
May 16th, 2013 - Deadly Texas Outbreak May Mark End of Tornado Drought

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Global Warming Coastal Flood Risk

The odds of extreme coastal floods nationally by 2030.