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Sustainable Development

Do Your Bit: Choose from the Many Alternatives to the Plastic Straw

A movement to ban disposable plastic straws is sweeping the world after gaining traction in cities and countries across the world, including...

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Environment

Harmful Agricultural Practices lead to Skewed Sex Ratios among Virginian Reptiles

Mercury contamination threatens many ecosystems worldwide. Methylmercury bioaccumulates at each trophic level a...

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Environment

The Great Dying is not What You Think It Is

Somehow, most of the life on Earth perished in a brief moment of geologic time roughly 250 million years ago. S...

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Environment

Western Painted Turtles face Extinction due to Global Warming

A trio of Iowa State University researchers has predi...

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Sustainable Development

What The COP21 Climate Agreement Means For Fashion

On Saturday in Paris, the gavel came down on two weeks of fraught talks, resulting in a landmark agreement between representatives of 195 countries to cut emissions of gree...

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Environment

Scientists Print 3D Models Of Great Barrier Reef In Bid To Save It

Researchers creating virtual maps of coral reefs to precisely model how structure altered by environmental change Scientists are using 3D printing technology to create pros...

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Environment

The Hydropower Paradox: Is This Energy As Clean As It Seems?

In July, UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon highlighted the role of hydropower in boosting the use of renewable energy globally, when he visited a nonprofit institute in China that h...

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Environment

Climate Change Might Mean Fewer Hurricanes — But They’ll Probably Be Stronger

VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Hollywood producers and pulp fiction scribes have depicted a variety of wa...

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Environment

Refusing To Talk About Climate Change Doesn't Mean Its Not Happening, Says Obama In Earth Day Speech

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Sustainable Development

Jairam Ramesh to Head Panel on Global Research Platform

Former Union minister Jairam Ramesh has been named to chair a global research platform panel on sustainable development instituted by an alliance of organisations such as U...

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