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Coastal urban centers around the world are urgently looking for new, sustainable water sources as their local supplies become less reliable. In the U.

New research published in Nature has confirmed that some of the most destructive hurricanes to pummel the U.S. in the past decade were made worse by climate change. Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria were 5 to 10 percent wetter because of global warming, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found.

A research scientist and professional skier react to a new report projecting snowless winter seasons in the Western U.S. in the not-so-distant future.

25 May 2021 A new study published by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Electricity Markets and Policy group (EMP) shows that the queue of new wind and solar capacity in the United States scheduled for connection to the grid has reached record levels, alongside the new capacity of battery storage projects. “We find that the total capacity active in the queues is growing year-over-year, with over 750 GW of generation and an estimated 200 GW of storage capacity as of the end of 2020�...

Australia in 10th biggest burner of coal in the world, and has the fifth highest share of coal of total power generation.