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The facility would have ancillary benefits for loggers and truckers, and its building materials would keep carbon locked up, expert says.

Two of the largest coal-producing mines in the United States were closed down without warning.

In addition to sharing our coverage of climate change adaptation on "Marketplace Tech," we also want to highlight great writing, important documents and interesting facets of the bigger conversations in play.

Late Friday, the White House released the Fourth National Climate Assessment. And it was dire. Among the predictions: If we don’t take global warming seriously by the end of this century, the American economy will be 10 percent smaller than it otherwise would have been. Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 

Case in point: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is now the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.

There’s a new report out on climate change science and it’s bleak. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of thousands of scientists, finds the earth’s temperature has risen 1 degree Celsius — or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit — since pre-industrial times. And if we don’t keep warming under 2 degrees? Well, the oceans could rise an […]

The XPRIZE started with 38 teams and is now down to a final 10.

High-resolution satellite images are critical tools for meteorologists, but proposed cuts to the weather service could put them at risk.