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Post-airpocalypse: Before and after photos of Beijing’s ‘smog season’
Residents of China's capital are enjoying some much-needed respiratory respite this week, as suffocating smog finally subsided to clear blue skies.In mid-December, for just the second time ever,...
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California may finally be coming out of this horrendous drought — but it'll...
Ah, California: state of glistening swimming pools, gushing water fountains, and drenched backyard slip-n-slides.Well, not so much, at least for the past five years.Since 2012, the golden state has...
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The 25 most conservative, intolerant, and polluted countries in the world
Expat website Movehub recently ranked the most — and least — socially liberal countries around the world.In order to come up with their ranking, they compared three different studies from 2016 — the...
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UK climate scientists are concerned about Trump's presidency
LONDON (Reuters) - British climate scientists asked Britain's prime minister on Monday to press U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to acknowledge climate change risks and support international action to...
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Dark, cold days may have been what actually drove the dinosaurs extinct
Dinosaurs went extinct around 66 million years ago, and it is widely believed that a giant asteroid was the reason. However, the exact turn of events has been a bit of a mystery, as a single strike —...
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Here are the qualifications of all 13 people who served as Secretary of...
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Texas Governor Rick Perry to lead the Department of Energy. The position entails guiding research and policy around energy production in the US,...
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More than 80 dolphins have mysteriously died off the coast of Florida
Miami (AFP) - More than 80 dolphins known as false killer whales have died off the southwest coast of Florida after getting stranded in shallow waters, US officials said.A pod of 95 of the dolphins,...
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8 awe-inspiring winners from the Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition
The winners of this year's prestigious Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition have been released and they're truly awe-inspiring.Over 17,000 entries competed for the top prize of a...
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London is on toxic smog alert for the next three days in a 'public health...
Mayor Sadiq Khan today put London on toxic air alert for at least three days.City Hall sent out warnings that air pollution could rise today to "moderate" in 17 boroughs and the City.It is then set to...
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Trump's EPA pick, Scott Pruitt, has filed 14 lawsuits against the EPA
Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma's state attorney general and Donald Trump's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), faces the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Wednesday.Pruitt has...
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For the third time in a row, Earth has set a hottest year record
WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth sizzled to a third-straight record hot year in 2016, government scientists said Wednesday. They mostly blame man-made global warming with help from a natural El Nino, which has...
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Scientists want to bring back a 300-pound tiger that went extinct in the '60s
Caspian tigers were some of the largest cats ever to roam the Earth, but they went extinct in the 1960s. Now, some scientists want to bring them back.A new study, published in the journal Biological...
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China is stopping 103 coal power projects as part of its move toward more...
China has announced plans to cancel more than 100 coal plants currently in development, scrapping what would amount to a massive 120 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired electricity capacity if the plants were...
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Congress just made it easier to sell off federal land, including national parks
In the midst of highly publicized steps to dismantle insurance coverage for 32 million people and defund women’s healthcare facilities, Republican lawmakers have quietly laid the foundation to give...
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Swedish supermarkets are replacing sticky labels with laser marking
The humble fruit sticker may seem an unlikely cause for environmental concern but removing it from produce could create huge savings in plastic, energy and CO2 emissions. In response to consumer demand...
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8 award-winning images of the great outdoors
The winners of this year's prestigious Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition have been released and they're truly awe-inspiring.Over 17,000 entries competed for the top prize of a...
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A new full-disk view of Earth is live that's 4 times more detailed than any...
Below is the most detailed full-disk photo of Earth ever taken — and the US government is now downloading a fresh version of it every 15 minutes.The unprecedented view, taken on January 15 at 1:07 p.m....
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Trump plans to ban the EPA from funding science, report says
Donald Trump plans to ban the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from funding science, and "overhaul" its use of science from outside groups, according to a Monday report published in Axios.The EPA...
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The EPA, which protects Americans from poison and pollution, has been frozen...
The Environmental Protection Agency has frozen all new grants and contracts and barred its employees from talking about it with the press or public.That's according to reports from ProPublica and The...
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The Keystone XL Pipeline, which Trump just advanced, will carry the dirtiest...
President Donald Trump signed a number of executive orders Tuesday to advance construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and Dakota Access Pipeline.Activists had previously successfully fought both...
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