The United States is home to 95 million cattle, and changing what they eat could have a significant effect on emissions of greenhouse gases like methane that are warming the world.
A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable.
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Henry FountainI took a break from writing about short- and long-term disasters and wrote about a potentially promising development in the world of fusion power. Accent on "potentially."
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In secretly recorded meetings, executives with the Pebble Mine project said the operation could run nine times longer than outlined in their permit filings.
Scientists say that climate change, which has also contributed to the wildfires on the West Coast, helped intensify a storm that is unleashing a deluge in Mississippi and Alabama.
The northwest part of the state, usually much wetter, has dried out this year, enabling flames driven by powerful winds to “just explode down these canyons.”
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Henry Fountain@cflav and I took a look at what's happening on the western slope of the Cascades, and why.
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The Army Corps of Engineers will impose new mitigation conditions on the developers of the proposed Pebble Mine, potentially pushing approval past the election.