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greenhouse

[green-hous] / ˈgrinˌhaʊs /


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The Greenhouse Gas Protocol is still conducting its review.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Greenhouse, a hiring software firm, estimates that when someone applies for a job, they now have a 0.4 percent chance of being hired—meaning you have a better chance of getting into Harvard than securing employment.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026

Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, or CO2, stay in the atmosphere for centuries, while aerosols last only days or weeks.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

The EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program requires about 8,000 power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities to report their output each year, representing about 90% of the country’s emissions.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

A few weeks before Greenhouse, Bradbury had tried to mollify the willful physicist by creating a semiautonomous thermonuclear division at Los Alamos, giving Teller authority over 25 scientists.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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