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SpaceX has completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts within the next few months to the International Space Station

Germany will pay utility companies billions to speed up the shutdown of their coal-fired power plants

The German government says officials have agreed on a plan to shut down the nation's coal-fired power plants by the mid to late 2030s that will involve operators getting billions of euros in compensation

The German government says officials have agreed on a plan to shut down the nation's coal-fired power plants by the mid to late 2030s

Young climate activists are seeking to join a lawsuit before Germany's top court that aims to force the government to do more to combat global warming

Hemp was ushered in as a federally legal agricultural crop under the groundbreaking 2018 Farm Bill

Tokyo Olympic athletes should beware

It was a Mardi Gras-style celebration as a recently completed key component of a new rocket system was loaded on a Mississippi River barge in New Orleans

The White House has proposed guidelines to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in medicine, transportation and other industries

Germany's greenhouse gas emissions fell sharply last year, putting the country's 2020 climate goal within reach again

SpaceX has launched 60 more mini internet satellites, this time testing a dark coating to appease stargazers

A report by the charity Oxfam says the average British person will pump out more carbon emissions in two weeks than a citizen in any of seven African nations will emit in an entire year

A report by the charity Oxfam says the average British person will pump out more carbon emissions in two weeks than citizens in seven African nations will emit in the entire year

For many reasons, 2019 was historic

Authorities in western Poland have ordered the culling of at least 65,000 hen at a farm affected by bird flu that seems to have spread from the east. Regional veterinarian Andrzej Zarnecki said a crisis team is meeting Friday to decide on containment measures while laboratory experts work to identify the virus at the hen farm

A major insurer is limiting its insurance coverage of companies in the fossil fuel business, citing concerns about climate change

This year saw the deaths of people who shifted culture through prose, pragmatism and persistence

After her daughter asked for a Barbie, University of Utah forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni decided to re-fashion the iconic dolls as a scientist-explorer in rubber boots rather than high heels

This year saw the deaths of people who shifted culture through prose, pragmatism and persistence

Japan has revised a roadmap for the cleanup of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, further delaying the removal of thousands of spent fuel units that remain in cooling pools

An environmental success story is unfolding in the Pacific Ocean

A new cafe culture is brewing in San Francisco, where a growing number of coffee houses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs

Japan's economy and industry ministry has proposed the gradual release or evaporation of massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water being stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant

Boeing's crew capsule is back on Earth after an aborted flight to the International Space Station