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Volkswagen To Pay $14.7bn Settlement And Buy Back Cars From Consumers

Volkswagen has agreed to pay $14.7bn to settle claims generated by its emissions rigging scandal and to buy back cars from consumers at pre-scandal prices, the Department o...

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Sustainable Development

SpaceX Is Already Working On Legal Approval For Its 2018 Mars Flight

I’ve been to the Humans to Mars Summit, an annual conference thrown by Explore Mars about speeding up human colonization of the Red Planet, a few times. It’s al...

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Environment

It's Already Looking Like 2016 Will Be The Hottest Year On Record

How long can the hot streak last?
Global average temperatures set a seventh straight monthly record in April, and it wasn't even close, according to NASA figures. Last...

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Festivals

How the Arab Spring Changed the Arab Screen and Why You Need to Start Paying Attention

"I took this video so that people know what really happened," whispers the protagonist of "Rags and Tatters," Ahmad Abdallah's urgent yet understated Egyptian drama set ami...

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Environment

How Dwindling Fish Stocks Get A Reprieve

“My wife told me to sell the boats,” says Brad Pettinger, a longtime trawl fisherman in the Pacific Northwest. “But I said, honey, who’s gonna buy t...

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Sustainable Development

Domestic Help Starts School For 60 Kids From Slums In Ranchi

Suchita’s mother met with an accident a few months ago, because of which she had to take up odd jobs to support her family. In January this year, she started a makesh...

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Sustainable Development

An Office On Four Wheels Brings Land Administration Services To Isolated Populations

I recently had the opportunity to see the mobile offices run by the State Service for the Registration of Real Estate (SSRRE) of the Republic of Azerbaijan. These mobile of...

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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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Trending

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw: Life Science Developments To Look Out For In 2016

These are exciting times for the life sciences sector as it builds on its understanding of the disease at the cellular and genetic level to usher in new and differentiated ...

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Environment

The Obama Administration Just Made It Virtually Impossible For Hunters To Import African Lion Trophies

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has placed two African lion subspecies under its protection, declaring one type in west-central Africa endangered and the other, found in e...

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