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Environment

Floating Solar Is A Win-Win Energy Solution For Drought-Stricken US Lakes

Installing floating solar photovoltaic arrays, sometimes called “floatovoltaics,” on a portion of these two reservoirs in the southwestern United States could p...

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Environment

Paris Bans All Cars Made Before 1997 To Reduce Pollution

The ban, which aims to reduce air pollution in the City of Light, came into effect Friday and makes Paris the first city in the country to officially establish a "limited t...

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Environment

Volkswagen To Pay $14.7bn Settlement And Buy Back Cars From Consumers

Volkswagen has agreed to pay $14.7bn to settle claims generated by its emissions rigging scandal and to buy back cars from consumers at pre-scandal prices, the Department o...

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Alternative Entertainment

Street Artist Turns His Aerosol Toward Saving The Bees

Nick Sweetman has been part of Toronto’s street art scene for years. Now, he’s taking a global approach as part of the city’s Street ARToronto program. &l...

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Sustainable Development

We Can’t Count On Geoengineering To Save Us From Climate Change, Scientists Warn

In December, governments around the world got together and grandly agreed to limit global warming to below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels—with a preference for keep...

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Environment

How Can We Make Brexit Work For The Environment?

About 70% of our environmental safeguards and legislation is European legislation – and this is now at risk. The rhetoric from some on the leave campaign indicates th...

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Human Rights

The World Bank Should Champion Human Rights

Much of the evidence supporting the emerging consensus that strong human rights safeguards promote and enhance development has come out of research from the World Bank. Yet...

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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

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

Harnessing Local Pride For Global Conservation

The toughest problems to solve are the ones that are hard to detect and require humans to change their behavior. That puts conservation at the top of the list. According to...

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