This young entrepreneur is turning trash into fuel
Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, is home to over 10 million people and developing a huge trash problem. One local entrepreneur is trying to change this, and is turning trash into fuel.Story by Ian...
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The scientist who first warned us about climate change says it’s way worse...
The rewards of being right about climate change are bittersweet.James Hansen should know this better than most — he warned of this whole thing before Congress in 1988, when he was director of NASA’s...
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The Rockefellers just made a historic move against the fossil-fuel industry,...
The Rockefeller Family Fund, a US-based public charity led by the Rockefeller family, announced on Wednesday that it's intending to completely divest from fossil fuels."While the global community works...
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These 5 plants can help keep your indoor air clean
In the 1980s as more and more people flocked to poorly ventilated offices, they began to notice a worrying trend: people were coughing, getting headaches and even having trouble breathing — and the...
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Denver is getting slammed with a blizzard that shut down the airport and left...
The Denver metropolitan area got walloped with snow on Wednesday, just one day after temperatures hit 70 degrees in the city.Traffic came to a standstill in the Mile High City, and schools and...
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A microbiologist explains why the 'three-second rule' for food is 'nonsense'
You're cooking dinner and a piece of food drops onto the floor. You snatch it up quickly. It's okay to eat because it was only on the floor for a few seconds, right?Wrong, microbiologist Philip Tierno...
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Giant holes found in Siberia could be signs of a ticking climate 'time bomb'
When a helicopter pilot spotted the first crater in summer 2014, everyone was baffled.The 100-foot-wide hole appeared on the Yamal Peninsula seemingly out of nowhere, during a tense season of Russian...
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Pollution in London's air was at a dangerously high level earlier this month
London's air was contaminated with record-breaking levels of harmful pollutant earlier this month.According to The Evening Standard, all air quality monitoring sites in the city hit “high” or “very...
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The dirtiest room in your house is not your bathroom
It shouldn't come as a shock to you that your home is teeming with all kinds of gnarly things.You track in grime on your shoes; your bed sheets and mattress are literally teeming with debris; and don't...
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I went to the source of the world's best coffee — and saw firsthand why the...
Whether you prefer a straight shot of tangy espresso or a few sweet sips of a blended coffee drink, chances are you love coffee.Not only is this bittersweet drink one of the most widely consumed...
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The Los Angeles mountain lion who’s gone viral reveals something disturbing...
P-22, the mountain lion that rose to stardom after gracing the covers of National Geographic in December 2013 while prowling in front of Los Angeles' infamous Hollywood sign, has once again made...
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These 6 states are the most at risk of a human-caused earthquake this year
Seismic activity is no longer dependent on natural causes. Human activity is playing a role as well.The US Geological Survey recently mapped all the places that are most likely to be damaged by...
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El Niño is causing a global sugar shortage
If you’re a fan of sugar — and let’s face it, you probably are — 2016 is going to be an expensive year, because recent El Niño events have brought on a worldwide sugar shortage that's becoming a whole...
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Here's why Japan just killed 200 pregnant whales with a 'research' ship
A fleet of Japanese ships returned from Antarctic waters on Thursday, March 24, after more than three months at sea.The sailors' bounty: hundreds of dead Minke whales, more than 200 of which were...
View ArticleThis mind-melting thought experiment of Einstein's reveals how to manipulate...
Einstein reveals how to manipulate time.Produced by Delano SamuelsFollow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »
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We've 'fried' the most pristine sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef
An aerial survey of 520 sites across the 1,500-mile stretch of delicate coral reefs in north-east Australia found that the most pristine sections had been “fried” and were facing some of the worst...
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A photographer captured these creepy photos of an abandoned Disney water park...
When Disney River Country opened in 1976, visitors flocked to ride the winding slides and traverse the wooden bridges.25 years later, the park closed down. It's still abandoned today.A Cleveland-based...
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The Arctic’s ice has hit another record low
A record expanse of Arctic sea never froze over this winter and remained open water as a season of freakishly high temperatures produced deep – and likely irreversible – changes on the far...
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Watch the planet morph before your eyes with Google's mesmerizing timelapse...
Since I discovered Google's Earth Engine timelapse tool (thanks, reddit!), I've been playing with it all morning. (The feature debuted in 2013.)Google has a dozen locations highlighted to show how...
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You can now tour the Arctic Ocean on a luxury cruise thanks to climate change
If the thought of spending a summer aboard a ship alongside 1,700 other passengers in freezing cold weather is your idea of a vacation, well, you're in luck. But the environment may not be.Starting in...
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