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Warm Ocean Temperatures Helped Make 2015 A Record Year For Shark Attacks

Increasingly warm waters around the globe due to climate change and El Niño led to the highest number of shark attacks ever recorded in 2015, according to data relea...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Jagjit Singh- A Sweet Recollection

I don’t recall when I first met the two, Jagjit and Chitra Singh. It must be sometime in the early 1970s, when Chitra came round to our tiny apartment on 29th Road TP...

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Environment

Here's Why Polar Bears' Summer Just Got A Bit Worse

The area of frozen ocean that caps the North Pole was smaller this past month than during any January on record.
Measurements released last week by the National Snow ...

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Environment

There's One Thing That Could Make The Zika Virus Much More Dangerous — Climate Change

The mosquito-born Zika virus was declared an international public health emergency last week — a designation last used for Ebola — and could infect as many as 4...

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Environment

The Pentagon Just Issued Marching Orders On Climate Change

The boring-but-important 12-page document issued in January tells the armed service chiefs and top civilian officials to identify how climate change will affect their missi...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - A Li'l Bit Of Kindness

Intolerance is the word of the season-- all over the world, people are losing their patience, compassion and that sense of community that makes life worthwhile. What does a...

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Retroscope

Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

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Environment

Ban Ki-Moon Says It's Time For Investors To Cut Some Checks For Renewable Energy

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told hundreds of investors on Wednesday that they should aim to double the amount of capital they commit to clean energy production by the ...

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Environment

Animation: 100 Years Of Global Warming In Less Than A Minute

Nasa has released a powerful illustration of Earth's long-term warming trend between 1880 and 2015Nasa has released a powerful animation mapping global warming trendsbetwee...

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Environment

It's Official: 2015 Is The Hottest Year On Record

Average land and sea surface temperatures for the year ran 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.62 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average, the US National Oceanic and Atmosph...

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