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Aquifers could serve as energy storage for cooling and heating homes, new research shows.

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Out of thousands of nominees, Berkeley Lab’s new website has made it to the Top 5 finalists eligible to win the Webby Award, the “Oscars of the Internet.”

A key source of information underpinning the upcoming National Climate Assessment suggests that heavy precipitation days historically experienced once in a century by Americans could in the future be experienced on several occasions in a lifetime.

New climate data predicts an increase in highly intense days of rain, snow and up to 30% more moisture on those days.

Clean-energy and environmental advocates arent pleased with a bill in the Nevada Legislature that they say would commit the state to using fossil fuels long-term. Senate Bill 116 would allow the utility Southwest Gas to replace thousands of miles of existing gas distribution infrastructure with what conservation groups warn would be minimal oversight from the Nevada Public Utilities Commission. At the Nevada Conservation League, Deputy Director Christi Cabrera-Georgeson said in the past few ...

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Reuters: U.S. officials on Tuesday gave final approval for a company owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz to begin building a massive transmission line that will deliver wind energy from blustery Wyoming to power-hungry California. The "notice to proceed" from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management allows TransWest Express LLC to break ground on its $3…

The next generation of quantum devices requires high-coherence qubits that are less error-prone.

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