Last year in America, “Renewable energy surpassed coal power nationwide for the first time in over six decades,” reports the New York Times. Wind, solar and hydropower generated 22% of America’s electricity, compared with 20% from coal.

But unfortuna…

“Say hello to ionocaloric cooling: a new way to lower the mercury that has the potential to replace existing methods with something that is safer and friendlier to the planet,” writes ScienceAlert.

It’s all based on the idea that melting absorbs heat…

Planet earth “has now warmed at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with preindustrial levels,” reports the Washington Post, “and nearly every year in the past decade ranks near the top.”

“On Thursday, the National Oceanic and A…

Swiss company Climeworks announced Thursday that it has successfully taken carbon dioxide out of the air and put it in the ground where it will eventually turn into rock in a process that has been verified by an independent third-party auditor. It the …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Decades of research by scientists at Exxon accurately predicted how much global warming would occur from burning fossil fuels, according to a new study in the journal Science. The findings clash with an eno…

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to “take back” the carbon dioxide emitted from their products, handing them direct responsibility for cleaning up the climate, a group of scientists has argued. From a report: The principle that the producer of po…

The protective ozone layer in the upper atmosphere could be restored within several decades, scientists said Monday, as recent rogue emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals from China have been largely eliminated. From a report: In a United Nations-spon…

“Luke Iseman, a serial inventor and the former director of hardware at Y Combinator, has raised at least $500,000 to launch his sunlight reflection company, Make Sunsets,” reports CNBC.

“Make Sunsets plans to launch three balloon test launches releas…

For the first time since 2012, the US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing an update to the federal air quality standard for fine soot — a long-awaited step to reduce deadly air pollution. From a report: The current standard, which has been in…

Half the planet’s glaciers will have melted by 2100 even if humanity sticks to goals set out in the Paris climate agreement, according to research that finds the scale and impacts of glacial loss are greater than previously thought. At least half of th…