Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The app is a result of research that looks at 125 cars and measures their mileage and the greenhouse gases generated in making and powering them. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/science/smartphone-app-car-emissions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A NASA flying laboratory is using a specially designed sensor in a search for answers about what is killing large sections of the world’s coral reefs. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/science/great-barrier-reef-nasa-australia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Exxon Mobil says it’s not possible to predict how climate change will affect its business. A bill in Congress says it shouldn’t be asked to. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/business/energy-environment/a-new-debate-over-pricing-the-risks-of-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Small, private forests, which make up more than half of the forestland in the United States, can be turned into potent weapons against climate change. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/science/private-forests-global-warming.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A failure to resolve conflicting amendments in the Clean Air Act about 26 years ago could imperil the president’s signature climate change policy. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/us/politics/obama-court-clean-power-plan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The 10-year deal is one of the biggest such agreements yet, as airlines try to reduce their reliance on petroleum-based aviation fuels. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/business/energy-environment/jetblue-makes-biofuels-deal-to-curtail-greenhouse-gases.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Arctic sea ice this summer shrank to its second lowest level since scientists started to monitor it by satellite, with scientists saying it is another ominous signal of global warming. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/science/shrinking-artic-ice.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The vast number of cases were in Indonesia, where the government claimed last year that only 19 people died. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/world/asia/indonesia-haze-smog-health.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment This year’s floodwaters and a history of hurricanes have highlighted the state’s need for a macabre and peculiar undertaking: cemetery recovery. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/us/we-built-an-app-keeping-track-of-louisianas-flood-tossed-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The president announced the designation to protect a roughly 5,000-square-mile area the size of Connecticut that sits 130 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/us/politics/obama-to-create-atlantic-oceans-first-marine-monument.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The newest record continues a trend that points to 2016 becoming the hottest year since modern record-keeping began. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/science/august-hot-record-temperature.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The city was flooded in 2005, and again four years later. And again in December. In the northwest corner of England, global warming is not a distant threat. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/science/carlisle-england-climate-change-flooding.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Like her father before her, Isabella Dalla Ragione scours the countryside in search of varieties that no longer satisfy agricultural trends, market demands and modern tastes. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/world/europe/italian-grows-forgotten-fruit-what-she-preserves-is-a-culture.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Park officials first thought the sandstone had fallen naturally. But a video shows people toppling it. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/us/oregon-duckbill-formation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Warming makes intense storms like those that hit southern Louisiana last month at least 40 percent more likely, researchers said. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/science/global-warming-louisiana-flooding.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The state has had “thousands of years of earthquake activity in a short period of time,” a geologist says. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/us/in-puzzle-of-oklahomas-earthquakes-new-data-may-provide-clues.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The state has had thousands in recent years, and the number with higher magnitudes has risen significantly. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/us/earthquake-ties-record-for-strongest-in-oklahoma-history.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment On the Chinese tarmac, an angry exchange between a security official and White House aides, and a challenge to President Obama’s national security adviser. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/world/asia/obama-xi-staff-shouting-match.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The ceremony Saturday in Hangzhou, China, offered a rare display of harmony in a relationship that has become increasingly discordant. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/world/asia/obama-xi-jinping-china-climate-accord.html?partner=rss&emc=rss