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Choking Air, Melting Glaciers: How Global Warming Is Changing India

Its Himalayan glaciers are melting fast, its agricultural heartland is drying up and its capital is choking on the world's filthiest air. Yet India's government is one of t...

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Environment

This App Will Tell You Exactly How Much You’re Destroying the Planet

Rather, the primary obstacle to combating climate change remains social in nature, which is why a team of researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...

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Environment

The Dispersants Used After The BP Blowout Did More Harm Than Good

Chemical dispersants were supposed to make it easier for undersea bacteria to digest the oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Read More

Environment

China Is Tapping Tibetan Glaciers To Meet Growing Demand For Bottled Water

Driven both by convenience and concerns about the country's widespread pollution, the Chinese drank nearly 10.6 billion gallons of bottled water in 2013, the Hong Kong-base...

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Environment

Even Glaciers Near The North Pole Are Melting

Jeremie Mouginot and his team reconstructed the shape and movements of the glacier to track how it has changed in geometry due to melting from below caused by warm water in...

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Environment

NASA Hopes Its Dramatic CO2 Simulations Will Get UN Leaders To Act

In a press release, NASA said that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measures at 400 parts per million (ppm), but it?s rising at 2 ppm every year. While...

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Environment

Robots Will Make Leeds The First Self-Repairing City

The idea is to create a city that behaves almost like a living organism,? said Raul Fuentes, a researcher at the School of Civil Engineering at Leeds University, who is wor...

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Bollywood

Make Diwali Safe For Pets, Urge Bollywood Actresses

Bollywood actresses Nargis Fakhri and Jacqueline Fernandezhave urged their fans to avoid firecrackers on Diwali to provide a safe environment for pets. Jacqueline Fernandez...

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Environment

We’re Halfway To Global Warming’s ‘Dangerous Limit’

The UK?s major meteorological outfit, the Met, says we?re entering what it calls ?uncharted territory? this year. According to the organization, ?data for 2015 so far shows...

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Environment

China's Dirty Air Just Hit 'Doomsday' Levels

The smog grounded flights, closed highways, and prompted officials to tell residents to stay indoors. Visibility in the northeastern industrial city of 5 million was just a...

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