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A Scorecard For Companies With A Conscience

Eleven years ago, the Vermont-based ice cream-maker Ben and Jerry?s found itself in a position other companies might have found enviable. Several firms were bidding to buy ...

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Environment

Get Used To Blackouts And Higher Electric Bills As The Climate Changes

Researchers evaluated the likely impact of more frequent and more severe heat waves on 24,515 hydropower and 1,427 thermoelectric power plants around the world. They found ...

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Environment

Air Pollution Is Causing Iran To Cancel Soccer Games And Keep Kids Home From School

Tehran's air quality index hovered around 159 on Wednesday ? which is more than three times the World Health Organization's advised maximum of between 0 and 50. Iranian med...

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Environment

There's A Heat Wave Going On In The North Pole ? And That's Not Good News

Temperatures at the North Pole may not have topped the freezing mark ? there are mixed reports from different weather buoys ? but it was an unseasonably warm Wednesday at t...

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Sustainable Development

Brain Implant That Could Reanimate Paralyzed Limbs Secures $16M In Funding

The National Science Foundation recently awarded the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington a $16 million grant for research that will h...

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Environment

Year In Review: 2015 In 12 Charts

Now that we?ve reached the end of 2015, it?s clear this was a year of major milestones, emerging trends, and new beginnings. Among other things, 2015 marked a historic drop...

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Environment

Why Engineers Can?t Stop Los Angeles' Enormous Methane Leak

An enormous amount of harmful methane gas is currently erupting from an energy facility in Aliso Canyon, California, at a startling rate of 110,000 pounds per hour. The gas...

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Environment

It May Be 70 Degrees Fahrenheit Above Average This Week In The North Pole

As winter storms continue to wreak havoc in much of the United States, a system is building in the North Atlantic that some weather watchers say could push temperatures in ...

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Environment

Freak Heatwave Pushes North Pole 20 Degrees Celsius Above Winter Norm

MONTREAL: Temperatures at the North Pole rose above freezing point on Wednesday, 20 degrees Celsius above the mid-winter norm and the latest abnormality in a season of extr...

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Environment

A String Of Orca Deaths At San Antonio's Seaworld Renews Concern About Captive Whale Conditions

Unna is the third whale to have died at SeaWorld San Antonio since mid-2015. A beluga whale named Stella died in November of gastrointestinal complications and a premature ...

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