U.S. geoengineering research gets a lift with $4 million from Congress
Studies will explore controversial cooling approaches
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U.S. appeals court tosses children’s climate lawsuit
Innovative legal strategy fails key test -
New Trump rule would allow government to ignore climate impacts of major projects
Proposal aims to unravel years of work by Obama administration -
A warning from ancient tree rings: The Americas are prone to catastrophic, simultaneous droughts
Strong La Niña conditions drove medieval droughts -
What’s it like to install a weather station at the top of the world?
Scientists brave frozen drills, limited oxygen, and more to install sensors on Mount Everest -
Microsatellites will capture GPS reflections to sharpen weather forecasts
Startup launches first in a planned space flotilla to probe soil moisture and hurricane winds -
DNA recovered from Arctic lakes holds clues for our future world
Mud cores show how Arctic plants responded to past climate shifts -
How a volcanic eruption helped create modern Scotland
Eruption-induced cooling likely exacerbated the “Scottish ills” of the late 1690s -
Space budget boost puts Europe in lead to monitor carbon from space
Funding increase for ESA’s Copernicus program advances satellites to monitor Paris accord cuts -
Nitrogen crisis from jam-packed livestock operations has ‘paralyzed’ Dutch economy
Ecological damage from manure fumes triggers calls for drastic change to agriculture -
Greenhouse gas emissions to set new record this year, but rate of growth shrinks
Declining use of coal for power drove slower growth -
Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate -
In unpublished paper, former White House climate adviser calls methane ‘irrelevant’ to climate
Research aims to support rollback of methane rules -
New U.N. climate report offers ‘bleak’ emissions forecast
China’s per capita emissions rise, but United States is still world’s per capita leader -
Massive Australian blazes will ‘reframe our understanding of bushfire’
Fire scientist David Bowman discusses the unfolding crisis -
Watch the Arctic’s sea ice slowly disappear
Researchers visualize 35 years of sea ice shrinkage
