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Climate Change In 2016: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
This past year had so many stories involving human-caused climate change – it will be forever in our memories. Here is a summary of some of the high points, from my pers...
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Indian Firm Makes Carbon Capture Breakthrough
A breakthrough in the race to make useful products out of planet-heating CO2 emissions has been made in southern India. A plant at the industrial port of Tuticorin is capturin...
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The Five Innovations That Shaped Sustainability In 2016
While the rest of the world struggled to come to terms with the aforementioned craziness, innovators, scientists and tech heads worked quietly from the sidelines to come up wi...
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Growing Mega-Cities Will Displace Vast Tracts Of Farmland By 2030, Study Says
Our future crops will face threats not only from climate change, but also from the massive expansion of cities, a new study warns. By 2030, it’s estimated that urban are...
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Cheetah 'More Vulnerable To Extinction Than Previously Thought'
Urgent action is needed to stop the cheetah – the world’s fastest land animal– becoming extinct, experts have warned. Scientists estimate that only 7,100 of ...
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Grass Was Greener But Wildlife Struggled In Muggy 2016
Farmers made hay but rampant grass growth in 2016 made life hard for butterflies and even puffin chicks, according to a review of the year’s wildlife and weather by the ...
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Mining For Smartphone Metals Could Kill Rare And Beautiful Deep Sea Creatures
Last March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association exploration vessel Okeanos made a remarkable discovery while surveying the deep sea floor off of Hawaii. In the pa...
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UK Hits Clean Energy Milestone: 50% Of Electricity From Low Carbon Sources
Half of the UK’s electricity came from wind turbines, solar panels, wood burning and nuclear reactors between July and September, in a milestone first. Official figures ...
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Major Flooding In UK Now Likely Every Year, Warns Lead Climate Adviser
Major flooding in the UK is now likely to happen every year but ministers still have no coherent long-term plan to deal with it, the government’s leading adviser on the ...
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Ice-Melting Temperatures Forecast For Arctic Midwinter
Scientists are forecasting ice-melting temperatures in the middle of winter for some parts of the Arctic for the second year in a row. And analysis shows such recent record te...
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