In five years, as solar installations skyrocketed, prices fell by 2/3 while jobs in the solar industry more than doubled.The exuberant green energy market has been powering along for enough years now that this trend is becoming too clear to be denied: renewable energy adds jobs even as costs come down.
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Does it seem like it's raining and snowing and mud-sliding too much? That's because it is. The 12% increase in precipitation means your house may be flooded next. We are living in an anti-science reality - do not accept it! Stand up for NOAA.Gov, the place were true climate information can be found!
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Damn the melting permafrost and full speed ahead – the Arctic is the richest fossil fuel source on Earth, but it was hard to get at all that oil and natural gas because it lay beneath a whole lot of ice. Climate change to the rescue! The Arctic just had its hottest summer on record. Eighty percent of the summertime ice cover has melted since 1979. Cue the military build-up.
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This is the story of how the Suruí tribe, who live in the deep Amazon Rain Forest, are connecting to the modern world with Google Mapping while preserving their homeland and their culture.
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Greenland's ice is going dark. A little dust, perhaps some pollutants, and something else the scientist's didn't figure on...
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When a Chevron oil refinery is Goliath and a bunch of climate activists are David - now that's a news event.
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Turns out that the definition of "species" is harder to pin down than you might have imagined.
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Women in Bangladesh are designing village water systems that protect the community in times of flooding and drought.
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The difference between meteorology and climatology matters - and it caused a mini-scandal that's still reverberating.
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