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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 contr...

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Environment

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 trendsbetwee...

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Hollywood

Leonardo DiCaprio Honored At World Economic Forum

Leonardo DiCaprio was honored at the Crystal Awards as part of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, and used the opportunity to tell the gathered world and business...

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Environment

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 ...

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Environment

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, l...

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Environment

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 Atmosph...

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Environment

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 Ocea...

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Gender

Owning Property Empowers Women In Unique Ways”: An Interview With Bina Agarwal

Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was the Director and Professor of Economics at ...

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Environment

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. T...

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Environment

United Nations Asks For Help For Drought-Ravaged Ethiopia

This year's El Ni?o weather system has hit hard in East Africa, causing the severe drought in Ethiopia and flooding in Somalia. The current drought comes more than two deca...

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