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The timeline of history is etched not just by wars and revolutions but also by moments when science yields a discovery that forever changes the course of humanity.It appears we're at precisely one of those moments.At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, scientists reproduced the power of the sun, a massive milestone that opens the door for the kind of fusion found in stars to one day power the world's homes, businesses, cars and economies.

Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases, are all heating up the planet.So what are the main human activities that cause them?The biggest share of these planet-warming gasses is spewed for energy, as coal, oil and gas still provide a lot of the world's needs.

Living in a sustainable, conscious, and smart manner has become not only a necessity but our moral obligation and duty toward the planet.Our homes should seamlessly integrate with, and nourish the planet, not drain her resources and reduce her lifespan.Being at one with Planet Earth, while taking rigorous care of her has never been more of a priority.

Friday, May 26, 2023 by Seth Smalley
The National Association of Counties honored Travis County for its remote work program this week, which aimed to make 75 percent of eligible jobs at the county remote.Travis County's initiative launched at the beginning of the pandemic in May 2020, meaning it has received recognition from NACo just three years later.

Disruptive climate protests have sprung up because people are fed up with excuses after excuses from governments to tackle the issue, actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has said.Recent years have seen climate protesters gluing themselves to roads, blocking venues, stopping traffic, daubing graffiti on property and bursting into meetings and sporting events in a campaign of high-profile and time-consuming disruption in Britain.

The Biden administration is moving to close a loophole that had exempted hundreds of inactive coal ash landfills from rules designed to prevent heavy metals like mercury and arsenic from seeping into groundwater, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday.Coal ash, a byproduct from burning coal in power plants, contains lead, lithium and mercury.

Even the temperate, mountainous country of Switzerland isn't immune to climate change.Sizzling heat waves are melting alpine glaciers, killing trees and fish and, in the cities, likely causing an uptick in human deaths.Rosmarie Wydler-Wälti, who lives in Basel, is acutely aware of this.A woman in her 70s, she belongs to the demographic most vulnerable to heat-related death.

Americans are one step closer to being able to buy chicken grown from animal cells, also known as lab-grown meat.Good Meat, the developer of such a chicken product, announced Tuesday that it has received a so-called no questions letter from the Food and Drug Administration.That letter states that the administration is satisfied that the product is safe to sell in the United States.

Europe had a record-breaking summer of soaring temperatures, heatwaves and drought, and its second hottest year on record in 2022, new data show.The continent's summer was its hottest on record by a clear margin, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said, while 2022's autumn was the third warmest recorded.

Hundreds of activists, including Greta Thunberg, have marched through the Swedish capital to a court to file a legal claim against the Swedish state for what they say is insufficient climate action.ore than 600 people under the age of 26 signed the 87-page document that is the basis for the claim, which was filed in the Stockholm District Court.

A searing heatwave in parts of southern Asia in April was made at least 30 times more likely by climate breakdown, according to a study by international scientists.Unusually high temperatures of up to 45C (113F) were recorded last month in monitoring stations in parts of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos.

The April heatwave that broke temperature records in Spain and Portugal was made at least 100 times more likely because of climate change and would have been almost impossible without it, scientists have said.South-western Europe and North Africa experienced extreme temperatures last month that only usually occur in July and August.

13 minutes ago13 minutes ago Germany produced 10 million tons of greenhouse gases less than expected last year, a report says.But, individually, the energy and transport sectors are still failing to make a sufficient contribution to the cuts.Germany's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 1.9% in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to a preliminary report released by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) Wednesday.

Denmark inaugurates on Wednesday a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea, the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad.Published: 8 March 2023 09:14 CET The CO2 graveyard, where the carbon is injected to prevent further warming of the atmosphere, is on the site of an old oil field.

Denmark inaugurates on Wednesday a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea, the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad.Published: 8 March 2023 09:14 CET The CO2 graveyard, where the carbon is injected to prevent further warming of the atmosphere, is on the site of an old oil field.

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California needs to invest a lot more in incentives for people to adopt electric bikes, says the California Bicycle Coalition.$50 million, a minuscule amount compared to the billions that the state spends each year maintaining and expanding highways, would be a good start.The current e-bike incentive program is in the process of being set up, but it only has $10 million available, including administrative costs.

The price of releasing planet-heating carbon into the atmosphere rose above 100 euros (about $107) in the European Union for the first time this week, a signal that experts said Wednesday speaks for the bloc's efforts to make polluting costlier.The EU has laid down a path to become carbon neutral by 2050, meaning it would only emit as much carbon dioxide as can be absorbed again through natural or artificial means.

Climate Council warns new government policies could lead to rising emissions' The Swedish Climate Policy Council, the independent body set up to judge Sweden's climate policies, has warned that the current climate politics of Sweden's new right-wing government will lead to rising emissions of greenhouse gases in our country, condemning the shift in policy as both striking and serious.

Image Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met Monday at the Kremlin.Credit...Russian Presidential Press Office, via Associated Press Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and China's top leader, Xi Jinping, began talks in Moscow yesterday with boasts of their close ties and only understated mention of the conflict in Ukraine.

Energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide hit a record high in 2022, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report on Thursday.The report also said the use of wind and solar energy, as well as electric vehicles, had helped to offset the impact of continued burning of coal and oil avoiding an additional 550 million tons of CO2 emissions last year.

An Instagram user, Tommy Vext, recently posted, "If your global crisis requires publicity stunts to convince everyone there is a crisis, there is no global crisis."Climate change is a major concern, so I decided to take a closer look.It's not clear what Vext means by "publicity stunt," but this was posted Jan. 17, and he may be referring to the arrest that day of climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Police in riot gear began evicting climate activists on Wednesday from a condemned village in western Germany that is due to be demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.ome stones and fireworks were thrown as officers entered the tiny hamlet of Luetzerath, which has become a flashpoint of debate over the country's climate efforts, on Wednesday morning.

21 minutes ago21 minutes ago A new report by the European Union's climate monitor noted extreme temperatures in Europe, the Middle East, China, Central Asia and northern Africa.Europe recorded its second hottest year on record too.The last eight years have been the warmest on record, the European Union's climate monitoring service said in its annual report on Tuesday.

As many Americans prepare for holiday travel, an arctic blast is bringing frigid temperatures, strong winds and heavy snow across much of the U.S. this week.The National Weather Service is predicting blizzard conditions in the Great Plains, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes areas ahead of the Christmas holiday.

The Dutch government is offering to buy out up to 3,000 peak polluter farms and major industrial polluters in an attempt to reduce ammonia and nitrogen oxide emissions that are illegal under EU law.The nitrogen minister, Christianne van der Wal, said farmers would be offered more than 100% of the value of their farms to quit.

Rising temperatures are causing longer fire seasons and heavier rainfall events in Australia, a new report says.Greenhouse gases have caused Australia's climate to warm up by about 1.47 degrees Celsius (2.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past century, according to a new government report, resulting in larger and more frequent fires, heavier rainfall and flash floods, as well as an increase in mass coral bleaching events.

Lauren Latour, of Canada, participates in a demonstration on fossil fuels at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - Global climate talks approached crunch time on Friday, the final scheduled day of negotiations that are expected to go past their deadline as chances of a deal still looked unclear.

By William James and Valerie Volcovici
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on Monday to resume cooperation on climate change and other issues, offering a boost to bogged down and behind schedule negotiations at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt
The leaders of the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases met at the G20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali where climate change will be competing for time with issues such as the global economy and Russia's war in Ukraine.

The river Rhine is pictured with low water in Cologne, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022.(Martin Meissner/AP)Temperatures in Europe have risen at more than twice the global average over the past 30 years, a new report found, as the continent recovers from a summer of record heat.Temperatures in Europe increased at an average rate of 0.5 degrees Celsius (32.9 degrees Fahrenheit) every decade between 1991 and 2021, according to the annual State of the Climate in Europe report published Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and Copernicus,the European Union's Earth observation program.