Despite big shifts toward renewable energy, the world still has far to go to give up fossil fuels.

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Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...

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Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning system ...

That's because the funds they were awarded months ago aren't available as President Donald Trump races to squash his predecessor's marquee climate law ... to fund rooftop solar in low- to moderate ...