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Choking Air, Melting Glaciers: How Global Warming Is Changing India

Its Himalayan glaciers are melting fast, its agricultural heartland is drying up and its capital is choking on the world’s filthiest air. Yet India’s government...

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Environment

Choking Air, Melting Glaciers: How Global Warming Is Changing India

Its Himalayan glaciers are melting fast, its agricultural heartland is drying up and its capital is choking on the world's filthiest air. Yet India's government is one of t...

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Smartphone Could Help Detect Air Pollution

People could soon be using their smartphones to combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a new low-cost method of detecting nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a significant ai...

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Environment

It’s Pretty Obvious Not Enough Is Being Done Ahead of the Paris Climate Talks

"We have some substantial reductions that come out of that, and that takes a curve that's been bending and keeps bending it even further," said David Waskow, director of th...

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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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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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Environment

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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