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Why Targeting Iran's Supreme Leader Was a Strategic Mistake

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: By Taylor Kubota, Stanford University

Saving Energy At Home Makes Us Think We Have Done Enough People who report working to save energy in their own lives may be less likely to support government action on energy-use reduction and sustainability, a new study suggests.

: By Colin Beavan, YES Magazine

Climate Action Never Did Depended on Trump There are so many ways we can slow and stop the burning of fossil fuels in the United States. But we need to get to work.

: By University of California, Davis

6 Ways To Save California’s Trout And Salmon A new report indicates that almost half of native California salmon, steelhead, and trout species are on track to be extinct in the next 50 years.

: By Grant Wilson, University of Sheffield and Iain Staffell, Imperial College London

2016 Is The Year Coal Collapsed For Britain's Electricity Generation Socially and politically, 2016 was a momentous year for Britain. It was also a record breaking year for energy and the environment, but thankfully for all the right reasons.

: By Danielle Torrent Tucker, Stanford University

Fixing Methane Leaks Wouldn’t Cost That Much The US Environmental Protection Agency recently enacted regulations to reduce methane emissions from oil and natural gas production.

: By Sam Solnick, University of Liverpool

Do We Need To Think About Redefining Citizenship? The hottest year on record was 2016. It was also the year scientists advised that Earth’s citizens were now living in the Anthropocene Epoch.

: By Andrea Elyse Messer, Penn State

Just One Change Can Make The Entire Food Web Unstable Seeing how a new crop or missing animal affects the food web of the Ancestral Puebloan southwestern United States could shed light on the future of our food.

: By Hannah Hickey, University of Washington

How Climate Predictions And Climate Reality Is Starting To Converge Scientists studying climate change have long debated exactly how much hotter Earth will become given certain amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.

: By David R. Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington

Make our soil great again Most of us don’t think much about soil, let alone its health. But as Earth Day approaches, it’s time to recommend some skin care for Mother Nature.

: By InnerSelf Staff

When Should Climate Prompt Us To Abandon Land? An ever-changing climate can put certain regions in the crosshairs of coastal flooding, heavy rain, erosion, and other risks.

: By Bill Ritter, Jr., Director, Center for the New Energy Economy, Colorado State University

Why States Are Pushing Ahead With Clean Energy Despite Trump's Embrace Of Coal On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump traveled to the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an executive order rolling back a number of climate-related regulations that have taken effect over the past eight years.

: By Steve Schwarze, The University of Montana; et al.

Inside The Coal Industry's Rhetorical Playbook If citizens have heard anything about the upheaval in the U.S. coal industry, it is probably the insistence that President Obama and the EPA have waged a “war on coal.”

: By Jeremy Bird, International Water Management Institute

Managing Water Is Key To Adapting African Agriculture To Climate Change African nations have overwhelmingly included climate resilient agriculture in their indicative pledges to the United Nations. And agriculture is seen as a major focus through a common position of the African Union on climate adaptation.

: By Nick Osbaldiston, James Cook University

rising sea levels When we think of coasts, we are likely to think about the great sandy beaches that have been the destination for many day trips and long weekends.

: By Jim Erickson, University of Michigan

How Extreme Heat Could Cause Animals To Shrink More than 50 million years ago, when Earth experienced a series of extreme global warming events, early mammals responded by shrinking in size.

: By Mari Jensen, University of Arizona

The Colorado River Flow Could Drop 50% By 2100 Warming in the 21st century has reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet—about the amount of water used by 2 million people for one year, a new study warns.

: By Kevin Fryling, Indiana University

This Molecular Leaf Uses The Sun To Turn CO2 Into A Fuel Chemists have engineered a molecule that uses light or electricity to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide.

: By Andrew Borrell, The University of Queensland

As Global Food Demand Rises, Climate Change Is Hitting Our Staple Crops While increases in population and wealth will lift global demand for food by up to 70% by 2050, agriculture is already feeling the effects of climate change.

: By Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams

Investigation Reveals Shell Oil Co.'s Decades Long Climate Lies Much like ExxonMobil, Shell lobbied against climate legislation and invested billions in fossil fuels despite knowing dangers of global warming

: By Brian Peloza, Purdue University

Shells Show That The Tropics Once Got Hot Enough To Kill

As the world warmed millions of years ago, conditions in the tropics may have made it so hot some organisms couldn’t survive.

: By Nicole Casal, University of Michigan

Scientists Find Answer To Ice Age’s Laurentide Paradox Scientists have figured out an Ice Age paradox and their findings add to mounting evidence that climate change could bring higher seas than most models predict.

: By Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW; Andrew King, University of Melbourne, and Matthew Hale, UNSW

How Climate Change Doubled The Likelihood Of The New South Wales Heatwave The heatwave that engulfed southeastern Australia at the end of last week has seen heat records continue to tumble like Jenga blocks.

: By Liam Jackson, Penn State

China Has Seen A 50% Drop In Severe Weather Since 1960 The frequency of hail storms, thunderstorms, and high wind events has decreased by nearly 50 percent on average throughout China since 1960.