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China Lifted Its One-Child Policy And Here’s What That Means For The Environment

China once touted the 1979 decree as an environmental benefit. Government officials estimate it shaved between 300 and 400 million people off the expected growth of its pop...

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Sustainable Development

‘We Were So Surprised’: Researchers Detect Oxygen On Rosetta’s Comet

Rosetta’s ROSINA instrument—a mass spectrometer—detected O2 in the icy body’s coma, the cloud of gas and dust and other space stuff around Comet 67P...

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Environment

Indonesia's Fires Are Emitting More Carbon Pollution Than The Entire US Economy

More than 115,000 fires are burning across the Southeast Asian nation, most of them on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, according to the Global Fire Emissions Databas...

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Climate Change Could Hurt Global Economy: Study Finds Link Between Global Warming And Productivity.

A new study threw gas into the flames of climate change debates. Three economists from Stanford University and the University of California (UC) in Berkeley looked into the...

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Environment

Climate Change Could Hurt Global Economy: Study Finds Link Between Global Warming And Productivity.

A new study threw gas into the flames of climate change debates. Three economists from Stanford University and the University of California (UC) in Berkeley looked into the...

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Environment

These Businesses Have Signed A White House Pledge To Address Climate Change

Eighty-one corporations have signed the American Business Act on Climate pledge, which is intended to combat international climate change and consolidate a business-friendl...

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Environment

These Oil And Gas Companies Say It’s Time To Address Climate Change

With a key global summit to fight climate change less than two months away, ten of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies called on Friday for an “effective&...

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Festivals

Pordenone Silent Film Festival – Female Spies, Custard Pies And Skirt-Ripping Fun For All

The Italian celebration of the silent screen produced a bumper crop of rediscovered gems from around the world – including a Laurel and Hardy classic – to wave ...

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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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