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Choking Air, Melting Glaciers: How Global Warming Is Changing India

Its Himalayan glaciers are melting fast, its agricultural heartland is drying up and its capital is choking on the world’s filthiest air. Yet India’s government...

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Environment

Choking Air, Melting Glaciers: How Global Warming Is Changing India

Its Himalayan glaciers are melting fast, its agricultural heartland is drying up and its capital is choking on the world's filthiest air. Yet India's government is one of t...

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Smartphone Could Help Detect Air Pollution

People could soon be using their smartphones to combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a new low-cost method of detecting nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a significant ai...

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Environment

It’s Pretty Obvious Not Enough Is Being Done Ahead of the Paris Climate Talks

"We have some substantial reductions that come out of that, and that takes a curve that's been bending and keeps bending it even further," said David Waskow, director of th...

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Environment

Indonesia's Fires Are Emitting More Carbon Pollution Than The Entire US Economy

More than 115,000 fires are burning across the Southeast Asian nation, most of them on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, according to the Global Fire Emissions Databas...

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Environment

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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Environment

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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Sustainable Development

Scientists Have Already Built a Prototype Greenhouse for Mars

Last month’s announcement that NASA had discovered very strong evidence of flowing water on Mars renewed excitement over the possibility of humans living on Mars, as ...

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Environment

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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Environment

India Unveils Climate Change Plan

India, the world?s third biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has pledged to source 40% of its electricity from renewable and other low-carbon sources by 2030. It is the last ma...

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