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Chernobyl's New and Improved Sarcophagus Will Contain The Disaster's Radioactivity For A Century

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, engineers are giving the epicenter of the long-defunct facility a facelift. With financial assistance from more than 40 n...

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Environment

This Map Tracks Thousands Of Cargo Ships To Highlight Their Carbon Emissions

The tiny specks of blue, red, and yellow on this world map depict the global pathways of tens of thousands of cargo ships.
The interactive map, co-created by researche...

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Environment

So We Signed the Paris Agreement. Now What?

On Friday, representatives from 175 nations signed the Paris Agreement, which outlines voluntary carbon emissions and climate targets. It's doubtlessly a momentous step in ...

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Sustainable Development

A Brief History Of Genome Island, Second Life’s First Genetics Lab

Unlike WoW, the virtual world of Second Life is almost entirely user generated. By making use of a specially tailored scripting language, the ‘residents’ of Second Life...

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Environment

Mitsubishi Becomes Latest Automaker To Admit To Cheating Consumers And Regulators

The latest example of the trend surfaced Wednesday when Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) revealed that it lied about the fuel economy of at least 620,000 so-called ...

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Environment

How Dwindling Fish Stocks Get A Reprieve

“My wife told me to sell the boats,” says Brad Pettinger, a longtime trawl fisherman in the Pacific Northwest. “But I said, honey, who’s gonna buy t...

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Environment

Brutal Heat Wave In India Puts 330 Million To Risk

India is in the grips of a monstrous pre-monsoon heat wave that has killed more than 160 people in recent weeks. The majority of the deaths have been in the southern states...

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Environment

Earth Day 2016: Five Inspiring Facts

How To Do Your Bit On Friday, leaders from 160 countries will officially sign the Paris Climate Agreement on Earth Day 2016. The deal was thrashed out in Paris last Decembe...

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Environment

Climate Change Is Forcing A New Manifest Destiny

I hate to say it, but I might be living at the wrong latitude—or at least, my kids certainly are. Reams of climate change reports—and a quick look at the news s...

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Celebrating Art - Kokuyo Camlin celebrates ‘World Art Day’

Mumbai, 18th April 2016 – Celebrating and reveling in the arts, well-known stationery and art brand, Kokuyo Camlin has ce...

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