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Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a renowned climate scientist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been ...

To reduce air pollution associated with ocean transport, the International Maritime Organization tightened restrictions on ...

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Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

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Cloud seeding does not create clouds or precipitation from clear skies. It can only be effective when clouds with the right structure and moisture are already present. For that reason, cloud-seeding ...

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.