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The Ice Is Breaking: The Famed Winter Chadar Trek In Ladakh

The famed winter Chadar trek in Ladakh is drawing increasing hordes of adventurers every year. At what cost? Tundup Wangail still remembers the first time he set foot on th...

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Health

Can Wearable Sensors Tell When You're Sick?

It may one day be possible to spot illness the same way many of us already track our exercise habits and sleep patterns: with wearable sensors, researchers say. In a new st...

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Environment

Dutch Electric Trains Become 100% Powered By Wind Energy

All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . “Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy,&...

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Environment

New Species Of Gibbon Discovered In China

Scientists have discovered a new species of gibbon living in south-west China’s rainforests. Although scientists had been studying the primate for some time, new rese...

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Festivals

Goa To Host Second Edition Of Science Film Festival Of India

The Vidnyan Parishad, a science movement, will host the second edition of the Science Film Festival of India (SCI-FFI) in Goa from January 17 to 20 at ESG Panaji. The three...

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Environment

Bird Species Vanish From UK Due To Climate Change And Habitat Loss

Climate change has already led to the vanishing of some bird species in parts of England, where intensively farmed land gives them no room to adapt to warming temperatures....

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Environment

A Crack In The Antarctic Ice Shelf Just Grew By 11 Miles

This story has been updated. An enormous rift in one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves grew dramatically over the past month, and a chunk nearly the size of Delawar...

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Environment

Paris Mayor Unveils Plan ​To Restrict Traffic And Pedestrianise City Centre

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has unveiled plans to restrict traffic in the French capital and pedestrianise the city centre in an attempt to halve the number of privat...

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Environment

Beijing Creates Anti-Smog Police To Tackle Air Polluters

Beijing will create an environmental police force aimed at tackling deadly smog, after the Chinese capital spent the first week of 2017 mostly shrouded in a thick haze of p...

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Environment

All That Glitters Is Not Green: Costa Rica's Renewables Conceal Dependence On Oil

Unless you’ve avoided social media for the last week, you probably know that last year, Costa Rica was able to produce 98% of its electricity without oil – a fe...

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