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Six New Species Discovered Near Thermal Vents on Ocean Floor

In 2011, a team of marine ecologists led by Jon Copley sent a remotely operated submarine nearly two miles underwater to observe a field of hydrothermal vents in the southw...

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Fishing For Stories Of The Earth

Four years ago, Scottish geologist Iain Stewart made his first ever visit to Kerala along with a BBC crew in search of karimeen, the backwater fish that’s also a favo...

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Environment

Dancing For A Cause: Kiribati’s Climate Activist Olympic Weight Lifter

Few casual observers would recall the winner of the men’s 105kg weightlifting category at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Many, though, will remember the athlete...

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Environment

2016 Arctic Report Card Paints Dire Portrait Of Climate Change Trends

It’s going to get worse before it gets better. And unless the world takes action, it may never get better. That’s one extremely depressing takeaway from the 201...

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How Thousands of Children In Pune Prevented Over 50 Tonnes Of Plastic From Reaching The Sea

Scientists have warned about the dangers of plastic pollution and microplastics in the environment for a while now. However, most people still aren’t convinced of the...

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Environment

New Method For Trapping CO2 as Solid Rock Could Help to Fight Climate Change

There’s no denying that 2016 has been a year of environmental extremes. Think “extraordinarily” hot Arctic temperatures, rapidly melting glaciers, unprece...

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Sustainable Development

Desert 'fog catchers' make water out of thin air

Fog harvesting was devised in South America in the 1980s and there are active projects in various countries including Chile, Peru, Ghana, Eritrea, South Africa and Californ...

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Black Mirror Advert 'Netflix Vista' A New Mini-Episode

Season three of Black Mirror is quite terrifying, depicting various dystopian futures, some frighteningly close to our own reality (“Shut Up and Dance” in parti...

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Environment

Plants Appear To Be Trying To Rescue Us From Climate Change

For decades, we’ve been pumping billions of tons of harmful greenhouse gases into the air, and for decades plants have been obligingly sucking it back out again. In f...

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Sustainable Development

The United Nations Wants To Crush Extreme Poverty

Negotiators at the United Nations agreed Monday to a set of development goals that aim to end extreme poverty and hunger around the world in the next 15 years, while fighti...

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