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Air conditioners being loaded onto a truck for delivery. Most of the world's AC units cool air with chemicals that are big contributors to global warming. A new agreement forged in Kigali, Rwanda, will phase those coolants out over then next 30 years.

Keeping our planet cooler just got a little easier

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Negotiators have agreed to a global phase-out of chemicals that run some air conditioners and refrigerators, but are also big contributors to global warming. That has countries and researchers scrambling to come up with clean and affordable alternatives.

Obama’s rock star science team

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Adam G. Riess on his Nobel Prize

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