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LNG, which will fuel a third of India's heavy duty trucks soon, has a 30% bigger greenhouse gas footprint than coal: study
According to a draft policy by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, India plans to fuel a thi…
PTI
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Udta Machhli: Cocaine-infused sharks have been found infesting Rio’s waters in Brazil!
Scientists have found sharks high on cocaine off the coast of Rio! What's next for these party anim…
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A climate change-induced natural disaster has struck India every day of 2022 so far, new CSE report shows
The sheer range of the disaster types seems eyebrow-raising. India simultaneously recorded one of t…
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Plastic pollution from fishing nets threatens Ganges wildlife, including the endangered three-striped roofed turtle, study finds
Interviews with local fishers showed high rates of fishing equipment being discarded in the r…
PTI
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Amazon created 599 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2020, 23.5 million pounds of which ended up in the world's oceans, watchdog report says
So much Amazon packaging ends up in the ocean, it's like "dumping a delivery van payload of plastic…
Ben Gilbert
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As denying climate change becomes impossible, fossil-fuel interests pivot to 'carbon shaming'
Signs of global warming are ubiquitous. So fossil-fuel supporters have shifted to smearing climate …
Aylin Woodward
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A company in India has found a way to recycle cigarette butts into toys and mosquito repellant
Two-thirds of all smoked cigarettes are littered every year. One company has found a way to reuse t…
Prakhar Deep Jain,Will Storey…
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'Zombie fires' smolder under the snow during the winter then rise from the dead come spring. They may get far more common.
A study suggests "zombie fires" that don't get extinguished in the winter may become more common in…
Aylin Woodward
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Big whales eat 3 times as much as previously thought, which means killing them for food and blubber is even more harmful to the environment
A decadelong study tagged over 300 baleen whales to understand how much they eat. It found that the…
Marianne Guenot
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Our chance to make incremental changes is over, warns UNEP’s new report ahead of COP 27; projects 2.8°C warming by 2100
Since 2021, we’ve only managed to slash 1% (0.5 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent) of the projected emis…
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Bitcoin uses as much energy as Sweden and is on course to use even more. Experts say that's a 'major problem' for its future.
Bill Gates has said bitcoin was "not a great climate thing." As it surges in value, miners hunt for…
Billy Bambrough
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Climate disasters in the US broke records in 2020. Scientists may now know why: Earth was the hottest it has ever been.
2020 was likely the hottest year ever on Earth. A warming climate is linked to more intense hurrica…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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Any hope of keeping Earth habitable now requires sucking carbon back out of the atmosphere, a new study found
Even if greenhouse-gas emissions stop now, global warming will continue for centuries, a study show…
Aylin Woodward
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Shark encounters are likely to continue in New England as warming waters and exploding seal populations pull the predators north
Sharks species that prefer colder water, like great whites, may keep pushing north to escape warmin…
Aylin Woodward
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Lockdowns cut daily carbon emissions in April to 17% below last year's average — but that only gets us back to 2006 levels
Due to stay-at-home orders, air and vehicle travel have decreased — and so have the associated carb…
Aylin Woodward
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Why South Korea's coronavirus curve looks so different from the United States
With a combination of contact tracing, testing, and isolating cases, along with other physical dist…
Clancy Morgan,Angela Wang
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4 coronavirus reinfection cases have been reported in the Netherlands, bringing the total to 6 worldwide
Four more coronavirus reinfection cases have been confirmed in the Netherlands, just days after a f…
Hilary Brueck
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The WHO says 'total lockdown' possible for countries after concerning surges in coronavirus cases
Dr. Michael Ryan said full lockdowns could be "the only option" if countries fail to squash "small …
Ellen Cranley
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Bizarre things happen to the environment and animals during a total solar eclipse - here's what to look out for
While the entire country will get to witness at least a partial eclipse, the lucky people…
Lydia Ramsey
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Brazil's environment minister just said that the solution to wildfires - and possible climate catastrophe - is to 'monetize' the Amazon
São Paulo, Brazil's financial capital and the largest city in the Western Hemisphere, went dark mid…