Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Because of slumping world demand and a glut of global supply, oil players are still struggling to cope with the industry’s doldrums. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/business/energy-environment/gloomy-days-in-the-oil-patch-but-some-see-a-glimmer-of-light.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Utility regulators are upending the financial dynamics of residential solar as they try to meet their obligations to customers who don’t have roof panels. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/business/energy-environment/why-home-solar-panels-no-longer-pay-in-some-states.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The airline industry opposes the administration’s plan to curb airplane emissions, saying it could endanger passengers and hurt American companies. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/us/politics/epa-airplane-pollution.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The government said it planned to eliminate the possums, rats and weasels that threaten the survival of native species. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/world/australia/new-zealand-animal-predators.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The pallid sturgeon is threatened because it can no longer travel far enough on the Missouri River to find a healthy place for its eggs to develop. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/science/pallid-sturgeon-montana-yellowstone-river.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In California, state subsidies for hydrogen filling stations are encouraging clean-energy advocates to try fuel-cell vehicles. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/automobiles/water-out-the-tailpipe-a-new-class-of-electric-car-gains-traction.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment While El Niño may be partially behind rising temperatures, NASA says greenhouse gases are the main culprit. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/science/nasa-global-temperatures-2016.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Solar and wind produce temporary power gluts that drive out other sources that are needed to maintain stable supplies. Worse, they are helping push nuclear power into bankruptcy. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/business/energy-environment/how-renewable-energy-is-blowing-climate-change-efforts-off-course.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A repopulation of cougars in the Eastern U.S., with their steady diet of deer, could reduce the number of lives lost to deer-automobile collisions. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/science/too-many-deer-on-the-road-let-cougars-return-study-says.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Algal blooms that have recently hit southeastern Florida waters are the latest of such environmental disasters that have hit with increasing frequency. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/science/algae-blooms-beaches.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Chemistry driven by mechanical force is radically different from the traditional way of dissolving, heating and stirring chemicals in a solution. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/science/green-chemistry-mechanochemistry.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Projections of potentially dangerous and costly algal blooms may become as common as weather reports, but first scientists need more funding. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/science/a-dreaded-forecast-for-our-times-algae-and-lots-of-it.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Demand for organic crops so outstrips the supply that some food brands are underwriting farmers’ arduous and costly transition to organic production. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/business/paying-farmers-to-go-organic-even-before-the-crops-come-in.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Researchers analyzed hundreds of thousands of samples in digitized museum collections to produce an estimate of species in the South American rain forest. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/science/amazon-tree-species-inventory.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Southwestern Energy is leading an industry group that aims to cut methane leakage to less than 1 percent of national gas production. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/business/energy-environment/future-of-natural-gas-hinges-on-stanching-methane-leaks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment While activists can agree that something must be done, differences arise over exactly what and how, on issues like nuclear power and fracking. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/science/climate-change-movement.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In the fifth year of a drought, Los Angeles wants to convert miles of extra space to capture storm water. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/science/climate-change-alley-ways-water.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment At Herring Cove Beach, facing an erosion problem as many other coastal areas are, a damaged parking lot is being replaced with one farther back. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/us/at-a-cape-cod-landmark-a-strategic-retreat-from-the-ocean.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment It’s the kind of choice that climate change will be forcing over and over. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/should-the-united-states-save-tangier-island-from-oblivion.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A Mississippi project, a centerpiece of President Obama’s climate plan, has been plagued by problems that managers tried to conceal, and by cost overruns and questions of who will pay. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/science/kemper-coal-mississippi.html?partner=rss&emc=rss