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Ban Ki-Moon Says It's Time For Investors To Cut Some Checks For Renewable Energy

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told hundreds of investors on Wednesday that they should aim to double the amount of capital they commit to clean energy production by the yea...

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Good News: The Global Doomsday Clock Hasn't Clicked Any Closer To midnight

The Iran nuclear deal and movement on climate change prompted the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, to keep it unchanged ...

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Amazing Things Happened When New Delhi Halved The Number Of Cars On The Road

On January 1, India's capital made an attempt to address its status as the world's most polluted big city, according to the World Health Organization, by implementing a tempor...

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India Cuts Carbon Emissions By 12%

India has successfully submitted its first ?Biennial Update Report? to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).The report states that the Energy Sector contribu...

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Animation: 100 Years Of Global Warming In Less Than A Minute

Nasa has released a powerful illustration of Earth's long-term warming trend between 1880 and 2015Nasa has released a powerful animation mapping global warming trendsbetween 1...

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Protesters Accuse Trudeau Of Broken Promises As BC Pipeline Review Forges Ahead

When Justin Trudeau spoke to British Columbia residents in August on the campaign trail, he vowed to overhaul how Canada's National Energy Board approves pipeline projects ? a...

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The Amount Of Plastic In The Ocean Could Outweigh Fish By 2050

Entitled "The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics," the report containsplenty of sickening statistics about the amount of plastic polluting the ocean, like...

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It's Official: 2015 Is The Hottest Year On Record

Average land and sea surface temperatures for the year ran 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.62 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheri...

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El Ni?o Worsens Drought In Southern Africa ? And 14 Million People Could Go Hungry

Nearly three million people will be affected in Malawi ? roughly 16 percent of the country's population ? while nearly two million are considered at risk on the Indian Ocean i...

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Here's The Most Detailed Picture Yet Of How Much The World's Oceans Are Warming

But to truly understand the remarkable ways in which human emissions are altering Earth's climate system, scientists need to find out what is going in the world's oceans. That...

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FESTIVALS: THE CHANGING FACE OF DURGA PUJA

Religious Fest? Reality Show? Sponsored Program? A little of all these? Monojit Lahiri l...

October 6 2024

POLITICS: GLOBAL VIOLENCE AND THE HUMAN TOLL

As wars and violence surge worldwide, this article explores the tragic human cost, globa...

October 5 2024

FESTIVALS: THE BATTLE OF VOICES 2024

We’re proud to partner with Battle of Voices 2024, a groundbreaking podcast compet...

October 4 2024