A study measured methane flow from more than 450 nonproducing wells across Canada, but thousands more remain unevaluated.
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Fallowed Fields Are Fueling California’s Dust Problem
New research shows that unplanted agricultural lands are behind most of the state’s anthropogenic dust events.
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Coverage Factors Affect Urban CO2 Monitoring from Space
Orbital mechanics and environmental factors limiting the ability of Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions to collect data in space and time affect city-level monitoring, reporting, and verification goals.
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EPA Proposes Removal of Carbon Dioxide Limits on Power Plants
On 11 June, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to repeal federal limits on power plant carbon emissions, including a Biden-era rule requiring power plants to control 90% of their carbon pollution and a 2015 standard limiting carbon dioxide emissions from new fossil fuel-fired power plants.
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Early Apes Evolved in Tropical Forests Disturbed by Fires and Volcanoes
Fossils discovered at an early Miocene site in Kenya include a new type of early ape and offer clues about the environment inhabited by human ancestors.
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NOAA’s Climate Website May Soon Shut Down
Climate.gov, NOAA’s portal to the work of their Climate Program Office, will likely soon shut down as most of the staff charged with maintaining it were fired on 31 May.
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The Goldilocks Conditions for Wildfires
Twenty years of data from around the world show that areas that are not too dry and not too wet are most conducive to wildfire burning.
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Rising Concerns of Climate Extremes and Land Subsidence Impacts
Increasing interplay among extreme events and land subsidence impacts calls for urgent mitigation and policy action to reduce detrimental ramifications to infrastructure and people.
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Charting a Path from Fire Features to Health Outcomes
A new framework aims to better equip scientists, communities, and decisionmakers to characterize data and rapidly respond to wildland-urban interface fires and their effects on public health.
