"We may be on the brink of a new paradigm for nuclear power, a group of nuclear specialists suggested recently in The Bridge, the journal of the National Academy of Engineering."
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Climate Catalysts: Fantastic Fungi
"Amazingly, scientists have discovered that by inoculating the soil with the right species of fungi, plants growing in that soil become stronger and more resilient and can actually grow more quickly as well."
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Finland Breaks Ground On World’s First Deep Geologic Nuclear Waste Repository
"About one hundred deposition tunnels will be excavated during the 100-year operational period. The repository will total a length of about 35 kilometers, with each tunnel being about 4.5 meters high, 3.5 meters wide and 350 meters long, each holding about 30 canisters."
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Seaweed: An Out-of-the-Box Experiment in Carbon Mitigation
Studies show introducing seaweed into the cattle diet can help the meat industry reduce its carbon footprint.
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Q&A: Terry Anderson On Adapt And Be Adept: Market Responses To Climate Change
"A carbon tax would impose huge costs on poor people in the United States and across the world, and yet we continue to push it forward, while we appropriately worry about income distribution."
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Climate Change Activists Need To Get Serious About Nuclear Power
But global warming may become a real problem, so it's particularly absurd that Earth Day's activists rarely mention the form of energy that could most quickly reduce greenhouse gases: nuclear power.
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Projections for electricity emissions underestimated the pace of power transition
"A new study explores how the U.S. power sector evolved on a much lower carbon path than analysts were projecting about 15 years ago."
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Why Closing a Nuclear Plant Could Hurt N.Y.’s Environment
"Critics say that closing the plant will make meeting sustainability goals more difficult, and there is evidence to support that idea. When one of Indian Point’s two working reactors shut down permanently last summer, the share of the state’s power that came from gas-powered generators increased by several percentage points."
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Here’s All the Climate Science You Missed So Far This Year
Bloomberg Green’s Eric Roston reports on some of the important climate science stories that have happened this year. “Somehow there’s still good news—the adoption of renewables and electric vehicles, oil-industry introspection, even sweeter peaches (drought stress raises sugar production). With sustained effort, we might see the most important measures of planetary health improve. Global CO₂ emissions from energy...
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Cooling homes without warming the planet
“'It’s clear when you look at the swath of the world that’s in the hot, humid tropics, there’s a growing middle class, and one of the first thing they’ll want to buy is an air conditioner,' Dorson says. 'Developing more efficient air conditioning systems is critical for the health of people and of our planet’s environment.'”
