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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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Snow Leopards At Risk As Himalayas Face Climate Change 'Crisis'

Warming temperatures could cause the tree line to shift up the mountains and cause farmers to plant crops and graze livestock at higher altitudes, squeezing the snow leopar...

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This Bleak Documentary Clip Brings Home The Daily Reality Of Smog In China

When former television journalist Chai Jing released her self-produced documentary on climate change Under the Dome earlier this year, it was viewed 200 million times in on...

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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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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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Environment

Super' El Nino Looks Set To Ruin The Lives Of Many Of The World's Most Vulnerable People

With peak temperatures expected in January or February, Oxfam America has estimated that the "Super El Ni?o"" could cause at least 10 million of the world's poorest people ...

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The World Bank Warns That The ‘Carbon Bubble’ Could Tank The Global Economy

This is great news for the environment, and bodes well for a sustainable future on Earth. But according to Rachel Kyte, the VP of the World Bank and its special envoy for c...

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Gender

Gender Equality And The Global Goals

Just over a week ago at the United Nations (UN), one hundred ninety-three countries adopted a new sustainable development agenda to tackle some of the world’s most pr...

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Environment

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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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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