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Can Turning Air into Gasoline Really Reverse Climate Change?

June 11, 2018 | Article

A new paper proposes sucking carbon dioxide out of the air and turning it into gasoline. Can this really stop climate change?
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Scott Pruitt Must Do His Job, Federal Judge Rules

June 06, 2018 | Article

The EPA must release evidence for Pruitt's claims that carbon dioxide is not a significant contributor to climate change, a federal court ruled.
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The Real Way Ancient Priests Sacrificed Animals at the Roman 'Gate to Hell'

February 20, 2018 | Article

Turns out, the supernatural force that suffocated the animals was not from well-meaning gods but rather Mother Nature.
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Finally Solved: The Science of Cracking Open a Cold One (With The Boys)

February 01, 2018 | Article

Scientists have cracked a frothy mystery: the physics of fizz.
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Pill-Size Sensor Sniffs Out Gases as It Passes Through Your Gut

January 09, 2018 | Article

A swallowable, pill-size sensor that can sense gases as it travels through the human digestive tract may one day help doctors diagnose patients' gut conditions, such as lactose intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome, a new, small study finds.
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Evidence Mounts Against So-Called Climate Change Hiatus

November 22, 2017 | Article

Evidence is mounting against the so-called climate change hiatus — a period lasting from 1998 to 2012 — when global temperatures allegedly stopped rising as sharply as they had before.
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Earth May Be Close to 'Threshold of Catastrophe'

October 02, 2017 | Article

A sixth mass extinction could be triggered by sharp increases in carbon dioxide by 2100, one new study suggests.
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Trump Touts 'Clean Coal': What Is It, Really?

August 28, 2017 | Article

At a recent rally in Phoenix, President Donald Trump spoke about opening a new coal mine in Pennsylvania, and referenced "clean coal." But what does it really mean when politicians throw out this term?
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Global Warming Gas Can Now Be Extracted from Air and Resold

May 31, 2017 | Article

The world's first commercial facility that can extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and resell it for commercial purposes opened today.
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Trump Administration Erases EPA's Climate Change Pages

May 01, 2017 | Article

The climate change page on the Environmental Protection Agency's website — a government site that presents the science explaining the changing climate, as well as ways to address it — is now void of data.
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