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Forest burning
Environment
A super-simple strategy may be key to fighting climate change
Scott Pruitt
Environment
Here’s why new EPA chief Pruitt is ‘absolutely wrong’ about CO2 and climate change
Green plants
Science
Plants are ramping up photosynthesis, helping absorb all our carbon dioxide
Can humans replicate this wonder of nature, to help in the battle against climate change? Leaves, and the photosynthesis that powers them, suck CO2 out of the air and turn it into a valuable raw material. Scientists are trying to do the same, and use the
Environment
Take air. Suck out CO2. Make fuel. A lab advance hints at a future for artificial photosynthesis
Trees and other green plants are nature's tools for sucking CO2 out of the air, but scientists say there aren't nearly enough trees to remove all the waste gas we've put into the atmosphere. So some are trying to create new devices that work like trees —
Environment
Is an artificial tree part of the solution to climate change? These guys think so.
The Houston Ship Channel stretches 52 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to the city of Houston. Sea levels have risen 2.2 feet over the last century at Galveston, the main barrier island protecting the Ship Channel from a big storm.
Environment
The ‘Texas miracle’ is fueling huge economic growth — and the climate change that may end it