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So long, Paris: US officially leaves landmark climate pact
President Donald Trump has formally removed the U.S. from the historic agreement that aims to limit global warming.
Carbon trade measure slipped into spending package
Language from the “PROVE IT Act” was incorporated into funding legislation President Donald Trump signed into law last week.
Minnesota climate lawsuit survives oil industry appeal
The case asks Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute to pay up for climate impacts.
‘Fantastic’ rally exposes Trump’s limits as green stocks soar
Capital has continued to flow into renewables. The S&P equity index tracking clean energy has soared 64 percent over the past year.
Nvidia launches AI technologies to aid weather forecasting
Artificial intelligence underpins a revolution in meteorology as AI is starting to replace forecasts long generated by supercomputers.
The data center surge has a hidden source of carbon emissions
Concrete is a significant portion of the emissions associated with building data centers. But the “boom in data centers is providing an opportunity to evaluate, address and move on the carbon impacts of concrete,” said an engineer.
Italian expert’s manufactured snow will play big role at Winter Olympics
Olympic athletes want a course that will hold up without becoming too mushy or rutted. Mother Nature can’t always provide for that.
