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No More Sulfuring in Silence
China Bans Coal Plants in Big Cities In a much-needed and long-awaited gambit to improve air quality and reduce acid rain, China has banned coal-fired power plants in major cities […]
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Salmon Chanted Evening
Historic Deal Will Help Atlantic Salmon in Maine In an unprecedented move intended to save plummeting populations of threatened Atlantic salmon, a coalition of environmental groups, government agencies, a Native […]
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Detroit Yuck City
Illegal Dumping Pushes Up Toxic Contamination in Great Lakes Toxic pollution in Great Lakes waterways has jumped 25 percent over the past six years, thanks at least in part to […]
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Dead Heat
Global Warming May Be Killing 160,000 People a Year Climate change and its side effects may be killing about 160,000 people a year, with children in developing countries particularly vulnerable, […]
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Drowned and Out
Three Gorges Dam Causing Unexpected Pollution Problems Unexpected environmental problems are already cropping up at China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydropower and construction project. After the dam went […]
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The Ice, Man, Cometh
Arctic’s Biggest Ice Shelf Breaks Apart, Signaling Increased Warming A 3,000-year-old ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, has broken into pieces over the past […]
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Weather Screen
U.K. Calls on PC Users to Help With Global Climate Experiment Concerned about the world’s climate and wondering how you can help improve scientific understanding of it? Wonder no more. […]
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Hot Enough for Ya?
Earth’s Climate Hits a 2,000-Year High, Study Says If you thought the summer was hot, get a load of this: The Earth has been warmer since 1980 than at any […]
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Lessons from Blackout 2003
Things started to go awry near Cleveland at 3:06 p.m. on Aug. 14, more than an hour before the largest North American blackout in history. A transmission line carrying 345 […]
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Global Warming, I Presume?
Lake Tanganyika Under Threat from Climate Change The ecology of Lake Tanganyika — Africa’s second-largest body of water and site of the famed encounter between Henry Stanley and David Livingstone […]
