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More Antartic Protections Urged On #WorldPenguinDay

The world needs to do more to protect the Antarctic wilderness and its wildlife, scientists warned Tuesday, as they marked World Penguin Day. The flightless seabirds -- a f...

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Environment

Mammoths, Sabre Tooth Tigers And Other Megafauna Went Extinct

Mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers, giant sloths and other ‘megafauna’ died out across most of the world at the end of the last Ice Age because the changing climate b...

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Environment

Get Ready For More Mosquitoes And Ants Thanks To Climate Change

Bugs are everywhere—you're surrounded by them right now, wherever you are, and as the news is always eager to remind us, they could team up to destroy us at any momen...

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Sustainable Development

This Device Pulls Drinking Water Straight Out Of The Air — And It Runs Entirely On The Sun’s Energy

A new kind of water-capturing device could be a game-changer for some of the world’s driest places. It can pull water vapor out of the air at humidity as low as 20 pe...

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Festivals

Latin American Film Festival Will Send Political Message

Cultural exchange and inclusivity will illuminate Ottawa as the 21st annual Latin American Film Festival hits screens from April 26 to May 13. Canadian Film Institute execu...

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Environment

Receding Glacier Causes Immense Canadian River To Vanish In Four Days

An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over the course of four days last year, scientists have reported, in an unsettling illustr...

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Environment

Living in China’s Expanding Deserts

This desert, called the Tengger, lies on the southern edge of the massive Gobi Desert, not far from major cities like Beijing. The Tengger is growing. For years, China&rsqu...

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Environment

New Study Shows Worrisome Signs For Greenland Ice

As humans put more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, ice around the planet melts. This melting can be a problem, particularly if the melting ice...

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Environment

Large Sections Of Australia’s Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find

SYDNEY, Australia — The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has long been one of the world’s most magnificent natural wonders, so enormous it can be seen from space...

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Sustainable Development

The End Of Coal: EU Energy Companies Pledge No New Plants From 2020

Companies from every EU nation except Poland and Greece sign up to initiative in bid to meet Paris pledges and limit effects of climate change Europe’s energy utiliti...

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