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Project Aims To Grow A 'City Of Trees'

A project aims to plant three million trees - one for every man, woman and child - in Greater Manchester over the next 25 years. Those behind City of Trees hopes the effort...

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Sustainable Development

These Tiny Jelly Robots Can Precisely Deliver Medicine In The Body

If you’ve ever seen anybody endure chemotherapy, you know that it can be a grueling process, to say the least. But new research on tiny, 3D-printed, jelly-like robots...

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Sustainable Development

Neuroscientists Hack Sense of Touch

Think about what it is to experience the sensation of touch. Across the vast expanse of our bodies, we are constantly touching—clothing draped on skin, shifts in air ...

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Environment

Mining For Smartphone Metals Could Kill Rare And Beautiful Deep Sea Creatures

Last March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association exploration vessel Okeanos made a remarkable discovery while surveying the deep sea floor off of Hawaii. In the...

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Environment

Major Flooding In UK Now Likely Every Year, Warns Lead Climate Adviser

Major flooding in the UK is now likely to happen every year but ministers still have no coherent long-term plan to deal with it, the government’s leading adviser on t...

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Environment

As Climate Change Uproots Communities, Innovation Can Rescue Culture

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When powerful Cyclone Heta hit the tiny Pacific island nation of Niue in 2004, it caused huge damage, including destroying...

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Environment

Leonardo DiCaprio Reveals The Truth About Climate Change In 'Before The Flood'

DiCaprio muses on this painting, a poster of which hung over his crib, becoming his first visual memory; indeed it leaves an indelible impression upon all who encounter it....

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Environment

Climate Change In Pictures: Photographs From Around The World Show Droughts, Floods And Melting Ice

An exhibition of photographs showing the effects of climate change around the world is currently on display at the United Nations climate summit in Morocco.
The images...

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Hollywood

Leonardo Dicaprio To Be Honored At Hollywood Film Awards For Before The Flood

Dick Clark Productions has announced that Academy Award-winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Fisher Stevens will be honored with the “Hollywood Documentary Award” for ...

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Hollywood

Leonardo Dicaprio Speaks At 2016 Our Ocean Conference

Last month, Leonardo DiCaprio spoke about the issues facing oceans at the 2016 Our Ocean Conference in Washington, D.C. hosted by Secretary of State John Kerry. T...

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