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Dwindling Snowpack Around The World Threatens The Water Supply For 2 Billion People

Scientists from Stanford University and Columbia University's Earth Institute?said?that if greenhouse gas emissions continue along their current trajectory, about 97 snow-d...

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Environment

Just Because Antarctica Might Be Gaining Ice Doesn't Mean Climate Change Isn't Happening

The study, published in the Journal of Glaciology, analyzed satellite data from two time periods. It concludes that during both periods, the amount of snow gained on the co...

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Hollywood

Pamela Anderson Urges British Columbia To Stop Wolf Cull

PETA Honorary Director and Canadian native Pamela Anderson has sent a letter to Christy Clark, the premier of the province of British Columbia, on the controversial wolf cu...

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Environment

Whales Are Dying Off North America’s West Coast — And It Could Signal Trouble Deep In The Ocean

In only one week, the corpses of four humpback whales have been found along Canada's west coast, fueling questions of whether their deaths are connected to a recent uptick ...

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Environment

Tiny Marine Organisms At The Base Of The Food Chain Are Eating The Plastic We Toss In The Oceans

Tiny marine organisms sitting at the very bottom of our food chain are ingesting the plastics that humans are tossing by the ton into the world's oceans, say researchers in...

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Gender

Your Children’s Toys Are Perpetuating Gender Discrimination

In my work in the media and in my role as a mother of both a young man and woman, I have been regularly stunned at how girls are routinely labeled, classified, and shaped i...

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Sustainable Development

The First Graphene Light Bulb Is Also The 'World's Thinnest' Light Bulb

On your rapidly diminishing list of things graphene cannot improve, go ahead and cross off “light bulbs.” An international team of researchers drawn from Columb...

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Sustainable Development

This Toy Car Is Powered Just By Water Evaporating

It doesn’t look like the most cutting-edge vehicle. A dinky toy car made out of what looks like Lego Technic creeps in slow jerks across a tabletop—and that&rsq...

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Gender

Queen Bee Syndrome’: The Myth That Keeps Working Women In Their Little Box

The idea popularised by Heathers and The Devil Wears Prada, that successful women connive to keep other women down, bears no relation to reality. A new survey by Columbia B...

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Environment

India's Deadly Heat Wave Could Be A Glimpse Of Things To Come

Indians are suffering from temperatures topping 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 Celsius) and nearing 122 F (50 C) in some states where amenities like air conditioning are rare. ...

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