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Governments and individuals debate: Are mandates needed to reach climate change targets?

And that is causing some consternation, even among some people who acknowledge the need to slow the warming of the planet.
This week, New Jersey has gone into more detail about its climate change goals, including its proposed ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, and a push to “decarbonize” public and private... Read More
Ancient 'power' palazzo on Rome's Palatine Hill reopens to tourists, decades after closure.

The nearly 2,000-year-old Domus Tiberiana was home to rulers in the ancient city’s Imperial period. The sprawling palace allows for sweeping views of the Roman Forum below.
The public is now able to tour it, following decades of structural restoration work to shore the palace up for safety reasons. Excavations uncovered artifacts from centuries of Roman life following the decline of the empire.
Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps

In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.
The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was... Read More
NASA spacecraft delivering biggest sample yet from an asteroid

A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing out a seven-year quest.
The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid.
Scientists anticipate getting about a half pound (250 grams) of pebbles and dust, much more than the teaspoon or so brought back by Japan... Read More
Homeowners face rising insurance rates as climate change makes wildfires, storms more common

A report from First Street Foundation released Wednesday says states such as California, Florida and Louisiana, which are prone to wildfires and damaging storms and flooding, are likely to see the most dramatic increases in premiums. But the fire that destroyed the Hawaiian community of Lahaina on Aug. 8, as well as the historic flooding that... Read More
Top Stories in Science
- Governments and individuals debate: Are mandates needed to reach climate change targets?
- Ancient 'power' palazzo on Rome's Palatine Hill reopens to tourists, decades after closure.
- Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps
- NASA spacecraft delivering biggest sample yet from an asteroid
- Homeowners face rising insurance rates as climate change makes wildfires, storms more common
- This simple log structure may be the oldest example of early humans building with wood
- Prince William, billionaires Gates and Bloomberg say innovation provides climate hope
- Sponsor an ocean? Tiny island nation of Niue has a novel plan to protect its slice of the Pacific
- Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends
- Arson attacks at schools in Belgium are believed to be connected to a controversial sex ed program
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