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October 22, 2015

Town in Norway builds giant mirrors to avoid 5 months of darkness

Every year, from September to March, this town is cast in perpetual darkness.  Now, engineers will place three heliostatic mirrors – each measuring 538 square feet – on the faces of the mountains surrounding the town.

October 21, 2015

Scientists seek to pinpoint source of mysterious mass of methane hovering over Southwest

Scientists are working to pinpoint the source of a giant mass of methane hanging over the southwestern U.S., which a study found to be the country's largest concentration of the greenhouse gas.

October 21, 2015

Pew, Pew, Pew! NASA space lasers to map Earth's forests in 3D

A new laser instrument developed for the International Space Station is expected to generate incredible 3D maps of Earth's forests.

October 21, 2015

UN touts Climate Summit successes

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon lauded the achievements of world leaders attending the Climate Summit in New York this week, touting, in particular, initiatives around carbon pricing and cutting emissions.

October 21, 2015

New York set for massive climate march

Organizers of the People’s Climate March expect more than 100,000 people to take part in the event in New York on Sunday Sept. 21.

October 21, 2015

UN finding on climate change is just a bunch of hot air, new report claims

A U.N.-commissioned panel says global climate change is hurting the growth of crops, affecting the quality of water supplies and forcing wildlife to change the way they live – but what if it’s all just smoke and mirrors?

October 21, 2015

Holy snow rollers! Strange snowballs invade the US

A strange and rare winter weather marvel appeared overnight in Eastern states blasted by blustery winds snow sculpted into fanciful shapes such as doughnuts and hollow tubes.

October 21, 2015

Are we becoming weather wimps? Weather analysis shows deep freezes were once far more common

As the world warms, the United States is getting fewer bitter cold spells like the one that gripped much of the nation this week. So when a deep freeze strikes, scientists say, it seems more unprecedented than it really is. 

October 21, 2015

Heavy fog enshrouds london

An impenetrable fog rolled into London Wednesday morning, which caused some travel woes, and also produced rare views of the city's skyline from above, with only the tallest buildings poking above the mist.

October 21, 2015

UN’s top climate guy to step down

Rajendra Pachauri, the 73-year-old Indian leading the U.N.’s climate science arm, told Speigel Online he planned to step down from his position in 2015.