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Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Coral?

In 1998, an unusually sweltering El Ni?o did more than just break temperature records around the world?it heated up the oceans enough to spur what scientists came to call t...

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Environment

How Hydroelectric Power May Undermine Brazil's Pledge To Slash Greenhouse Gases

Brazil's new pledge to slash its national carbon footprint by 43% by 2030 sounds like exactly the kind of aggressive commitment that environmentalists have been clamoring f...

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Environment

India Unveils Climate Change Plan

India, the world?s third biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has pledged to source 40% of its electricity from renewable and other low-carbon sources by 2030. It is the last ma...

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Environment

Scientists Want To See Microbeads Banned — And California Is Leading The Way

In a recent report, researchers from seven institutions have estimated that every day, a whopping 808 trillion microbeads are washed down drains in the United States, while...

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Environment

If We Burn All The World's Fossil Fuels, We'll Melt Antarctica & Flood The Earth.

"We show in simulations using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model that burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the ice sheet," the author...

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Sustainable Development

Making Sustainability Tangible – An Oxymoron or a possibility?

“If tomorrow’s business leaders don’t “get” sustainability, then the chances of a sustainable tomorrow are slim.”
Sust...

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Thought Factory

Making Sustainability Tangible – An Oxymoron or a possibility?

“If tomorrow’s business leaders don’t “get” sustainability, then the chances of a sustainable tomorrow are slim.”
Sustainability, l...

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Environment

The Ten-Year Mission To Study All The Ways The Arctic Is Doomed

Called the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE for short, the large-scale study will combine on-the-ground field studies as well as data from remote sensors?su...

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Environment

Here's How Artificial Leaves Could Produce Zero-Emissions Fuel

A new study from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia is a reminder that even if the political will to ditch fossil fuels is in short supply, the technology to produce...

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Environment

This Material Can Remove Carbon Pollution From the Atmosphere

The process involves heating up a liquid called lithium carbonate to a very high temperature and passing a small electrical current through it. The final result is a materi...

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