President Trump Could Withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement Within One Year of Taking Office and other top stories.

• President Trump Could Withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement Within One Year of Taking Office

  

  GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump said in May that he would back out of the recent Paris climate agreement. Commentators argued that that would be legally difficult after the deal is ratified this year. But experts speaking with Climate Central now say that there are at least three ways that President Trump could abandon it. Those options range from aggressive to passive. The aggressive option, according to Arizona State University law professor Dan Bodansky, would be to withdraw from an ..

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• United Nations will launch a space mission

  

  The U.N. is planning to launch its first space mission into orbit, packed with scientific experiments from countries that can't afford their own space programs. It's teaming up with the Sierra Nevada Corporation, which makes the Dream Chaser, a reusable spacecraft that, when it returns from orbit, can land at an ordinary airport. They formally announced the plans this week at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. The idea is to "reach out to communities and to countri..

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• For the First Time, Bees Declared Endangered in the US

  

  A male yellow-faced bee (Hylaeus anthracinus) lands on a flower of a plant called the naupaka, which plays a central role in Hawaiian mythology. Photograph by Jason Graham, University of Hawaii-Manoa As the legend goes, when star-crossed lovers Naupaka and Kaui knew they'd be forever separated, Naupaka took the flower from behind her ear and tore it in two pieces, keeping one and giving Kaui the other. As she went to the mountains, and he to the sea, the plants around them felt their..

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• Study: Innately murderous humans becoming less so

  

  WASHINGTON — Evolution and genetics seem to have baked a certain amount of murder into humans as a species, but civilization has tamed some of the savage beast in us, according to a new study. Scientists calculated the rate at which more than 1,000 mammal species kill their own kind, and noticed how closely related species have similar rates of lethal violence. They essentially found that where a species is on evolutionary tree of life tells a lot about how violent the species is to its own kind..

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• Hydropower is accelerating global warming, study says

  

  Reservoirs are not as carbon neutral as we thought, according to new studies from the Washington State University. Hydropower is an underestimated cause of greenhouse gasses, producing around one gigaton of carbon dioxide per year. Hydropower is not as clean as it appears now. Though much attention has been paid to their effects on fisheries and the natural flow of rivers, little attention has been focused on their carbon footprint. According to new studies, the reservoirs are responsible for 1..

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