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Increase in carbon emissions could lead to the deaths of 83 million more people in the next 80 years, new study says
The study found that the carbon emissions created by 3.5 average Americans during their lifetime co…
Vanessa Gu
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India lost more than a million hectares of forest cover in 17 years — that’s more than four times the size of Goa
According to a recent study pushed out by a global research firm World Resource Institute (WRI) …
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Encouraging Climate Action: Try Jam Today
The authors thus think their prescriptions could reduce annual greenhouse-gas emissions by as much …
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A Group Of Experts Has Changed The Entire Climate Change Debate For The Better
The authors thus think their prescriptions could reduce annual greenhouse-gas emissions by as much …
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The first US commercial plant has started to pull carbon from the air. It's able to suck out 1,000 tons annually and plans to expand.
Heirloom Carbon Technologies launched the first US plant for carbon capture, potentially helping st…
Maiya Focht
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The scale of California's gas leak is shocking
California Gov. Jerry Brown issued the declaration Jan. 6, 2016, nearly 11 weeks after the massive …
Skye Gould,Julia Calderone
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Expensive trips to the edge of space could have big effects on the atmosphere
Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson traveled to the edge of space and hope more people will…
Karen K. Ho
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The 24 best companies to invest in if you care about not destroying earth
Each business is given an intensity score, which gives the tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent prod…
Oscar Williams-Grut
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Growing steel demand in India to increase carbon emissions by 600 million tonnes, warns TERI
New Delhi, Jan 30 () India's steel demand is likely to more than quadruple in the next 30 years, re…
PTI
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There's a dirty secret hidden in your investment portfolio - and it's much worse for the environment than driving
The study considers a hypothetical professional couple, Jamie and Leslie, who take measures to redu…
Jeremy Berke
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The US saw 14 billion-dollar disasters in 2019 - the world's second-hottest year ever
Even if all countries stick to the voluntary goals set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the wor…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Flying is now more energy-efficient than driving
This both is and isn't true. Air travel is better for the environment when compared with driving th…
Shane Ferro
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Taiwan's smog-eating twisting tower will feature luxury apartments - take a look inside
On the outside, 23,000 trees and shrubs - nearly the same amount found in New York's Central Park -…
Leanna Garfield
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A smog-eating twisting tower that features luxury apartments will soon open in Taiwan - take a look inside
The skyscraper's facade, roof, and balconies will contain 23,000 trees and shrubs - nearly the…
Leanna Garfield
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Our food system accounts for a whopping 37% of greenhouse-gas emissions, a UN report found. But it could also offer a solution to the climate crisis.
In the fight to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius - the goal of the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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Earth is a spaceship, and the Amazon is a crucial part of our life-support system. Here's why we need the world's largest rainforest.
But deforestation threatens all of that. Humans have cut down nearly 20% of the Amazon in the last …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Researchers calculated what would happen if the entire US stopped eating meat. It'd be like taking 60 million cars off the road.
The researchers calculated that if every American replaced all beef, chicken, and pork in their die…