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The Hydropower Paradox: Is This Energy As Clean As It Seems?

In July, UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon highlighted the role of hydropower in boosting the use of renewable energy globally, when he visited a nonprofit institute in China that h...

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Environment

2015 Had Hotter Temperatures And Higher Sea Levels Than Ever Before

By several measures, the earth is cooking and getting steadily hotter.That's according to a new report that takes the earth's temperature each year, citing data from more t...

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Environment

How Sea Otters Help Save The Planet

New research into the complex links of the food chain suggest that the lovable mammals play a key role in managing carbon dioxide levels Charles Darwin once mused on the im...

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Sustainable Development

Business And Academic Leaders Urge New Conversation About Coal-Free Future

They also say the public may not realise it but a carbon price has already been built into Australia’s economy with the Turnbull government’s decision, at the P...

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Environment

There's A New Plan To Stop Climate Change: Turn CO2 Emissions Into Stone

The project took place at the Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Station, the biggest thermal power plant in the world and the energy provider for Reykjavik, Iceland's capital. U...

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Environment

What Would A Global Warming Increase Of 1.5c Be Like?

In Paris, delegates called on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) to report on the implications of a 1.5C target. They want the job done by...

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Environment

There's A New Plan To Stop Climate Change: Turn CO2 Emissions Into Stone

"It's a promising result," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science who was not involved in the project. "If this could be done at a l...

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Environment

CO2 Turned Into Stone In Iceland In Climate Change Breakthrough

The unique project promises a cheaper and more secure way of burying CO2 from fossil fuel burning underground, where it cannot warm the planet. Such carbon capture and stor...

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Environment

Renewable Energy Smashes Global Records In 2015, Report Shows

An upsurge in new wind, solar and hydro plants and capacity saw renewable energy smash global records last year, according to a report on new supply.
Some 147 Gigawatt...

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Environment

The Oil Industry Sought Patents For Low-Carbon Technologies Decades Ago — Then Abandoned Them

Around the same time NASA was planning its moon missions, US oil companies were working on technologies that could have reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Scientists an...

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