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On a cold afternoon in late November, Jan Gerrit Otterpohl eyes the chimneys of Berlin’s Heizkraftwerk Mitte, a state-of-the-art power plant that supplies the city with heat and electricity. It’s not the billowing steam he’s interested in, but the largely invisible carbon dioxide that the power station exhales as it burns natural gas. Under European […]

LOS ANGELES — Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, the founders of Quibi, a short-form video app scheduled for an April 6 debut, are trying to create a platform for the smartphone age. To entice subscribers, they have ordered big-budget shows from known quantities like Kevin Hart and Steven Spielberg — but they have turned to

Historic cities and towns along the Southeastern U.S. coast have survived wars, hurricanes, disease outbreaks and other calamities, but now that sea levels are creeping up with no sign of stopping, they face a more existential crisis. With a total annual budget of $225 million, Charleston, South Carolina, can’t afford the billions of dollars to

For years, Kim Cobb was the Indiana Jones of climate science. The Georgia Tech professor flew to the caves of Borneo to study ancient and current climate conditions. She jetted to a remote South Pacific island to see the effects of warming on coral. Add to that flights to Paris, Rome, Vancouver and elsewhere. All

Brazil’s environment minister says the country can’t stop deforestation in the Amazon without the help of rich nations By DOROTHEE THIESING, HELENA ALVES and MARCELO DE SOUSA Associated Press December 8, 2019, 1:30 PM 3 min read Brazil can’t stop deforestation in the Amazon without the help of rich countries, the country’s environment minister said

In a twist of fate, one of her classmates accidentally ordered two palettes; Rylee offered to split the cost of the second palette with a friend. “We’re switching off every week,” she said. “It’s like we’re co-parenting the palette.” When the Conspiracy collection went live, Ally Vahling, a high school senior in Thornton, Colo., was

SpaceX has made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer December 8, 2019, 1:56 PM 2 min read SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday, dropping off super muscular “mighty mice,” pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot. The station commander,

SAN FRANCISCO — About a month after Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016, Larry Page, the Google co-founder, was summoned along with other prominent tech executives to a meeting at Trump Tower. It was a rare public appearance for Mr. Page. He sported a tan suit and shifted in his seat as he

French activists have waved stolen portraits of President Emmanuel Macron at a protest to try to push France to do more to fight climate change December 8, 2019, 11:22 AM 2 min read French environmental activists brandished stolen portraits of President Emmanuel Macron at a protest Sunday near the Eiffel Tower to try to push

SHENZHEN, China — Huawei, the Chinese technology powerhouse, is suing the Federal Communications Commission for choking off its sales in the United States, the latest in the besieged company’s widening efforts to hit back at regulators and critics across the globe. The F.C.C. voted last month to bar American telecommunications companies from using federal subsidies