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Delay To Curbs On Toxic Shipping Emissions 'Would Cause 200,000 Extra Premature Deaths

A push by the shipping and oil industries for a five-year delay to curbs on toxic sulphur emissions would cause an extra 200,000 premature deaths from lung cancer and heart...

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Sustainable Development

Mercury Is More Earth-Like Than We Thought

Mercury has been hiding an exciting secret: the closest planet to our Sun is perpetually shrinking, according to new data from NASA, which shows the appearance of new, tiny...

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Environment

Hurricanes Will Worsen As Planet Warms And Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Warn

Major storms such as Hurricane Matthew, which has slammed into Haiti and isnow headed towards the US, will grow in menace as the world warms and sea levels rise, scientists...

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Environment

Venice Really Hates Being The World's Tourist Destination

Venice is overwhelmed by tourists. That's the message locals have been voicing in recent years, with protests flaring in the past few weeks.
Recently, Venetian residen...

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Environment

Hurricane Matthew ' Will Kill You,' Says Florida Governor

"This storm will kill you."
That's the message officials in South Carolina and Florida are trying to get across to residents potentially in the path of the storm. Matt...

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Environment

How Big Oil Taught Big Tobacco To Bend Science

Over the past year, revelations about what the giants of the US petroleum industry knew decades ago about climate change have had a familiar ring to them.
Several obse...

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English Village Set An Example By Quietly Cleaning Up Its Own Patch

Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. But a small village of England, Ashton Hayes teaches the lesson to the rest of country by becoming Bri...

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Environment

1,500 Reindeer Dead, 40 Humans Hospitalized Amid Anthrax Outbreak In Siberia

At least 40 people from nomadic communities in northern Siberia have been hospitalized amid an anthrax outbreak that scientists believe was caused by thawing reindeer carca...

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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

Could More Deadly Dangers Like 'Zombie Anthrax' Lie Beneath The Arctic Circle's Melting Ice?

The recent "zombie" anthrax outbreak unleashed by the rapid melting of permafrost that killed 2,300 reindeer, hospitalized dozens, and killed one child in northern Siberia ...

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