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Environment

Greenhouse Gases Could Eventually Heat The Earth Enough To Boil Its Oceans Away

In 2013, NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen published a short whitepaper that warned if humans burned all the planet’s available fossil fuels, i...

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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

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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Health

Persian Gulf Nations Might Be Screwed No Matter What the World Does About Climate Change

In a region where summer temperatures already top 40 degrees Celsius — into triple digits on the Fahrenheit scale — recent research suggests an ever-warmer futu...

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Environment

Persian Gulf Nations Might Be Screwed No Matter What the World Does About Climate Change

In a region where summer temperatures already top 40 degrees Celsius ? into triple digits on the Fahrenheit scale ? recent research suggests an ever-warmer future will pose...

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Sustainable Development

Cities Are Overheating, And Cooling Them Off Will Be Risky

Taha is the president of Altrostratus, which developed California’s recently-published urban heat island index map. The map shows the areas most impacted by the urban...

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Thought Factory

SUSTAINABILITY V/S EYEBALLS

It’s incredibly shocking when in the midst of a serious discussion among family and friends about what one can do to make our world a better place to live in for all,...

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Thought Factory

Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

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Environment

India Prone To Bector-Borne Diseases, Heatwaves, Say Experts

India's extreme vulnerability to climate change will have a direct impact on the health of its population, experts said at a seminar on Friday. The World Health Organizatio...

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Environment

Food Production Shocks 'Will Happen More Often Because Of Extreme Weather'

Major ?shocks? to global food production will be three times more likely within 25 years because of an increase in extreme weather brought about by global warming, warns a ...

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