Environment

The Electric Car Industry Is Going To Make You Love Them

How many people are ready to kick the century-old gasoline habit? American car buyers are signing for more electric cars than ever, and more manufacturers are entering the ma...

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Fiji Just Got Hammered By One Of The Most Powerful Tropical Storms Ever Recorded

The most powerful tropical storm ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere battered Fiji on Saturday with winds up to 177 miles per hour, leaving thousands without power on the...

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A Grass Called ‘Hairy Panic’ Has Engulfed Part of a Small Australian Town

A small town in Australia is being engulfed by something called “hairy panic,” and it’snot what you pull out of a clogged shower drain. Hairy panic is the co...

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China's Environment Minister Wants More Power To Crack Down On Polluters

China's environment minister, Chen Jining, said on Thursday that the government needed more power to go after polluters and local government officials that impede compliance w...

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Air Pollution Kills 5.5 Million People A Year — Over Half Of Them In China, India

Air pollution caused more than 5.5 million premature deaths in 2013, with more than half of those occurring in China and India, according to a new study, and pollution mortali...

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Last January Was The Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly Of Any Month On Record

NASA has released its global temperature data for January 2016, and, once again, the record for the hottest month in recorded history has been shattered. At a time whenthese k...

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The Train Derailment That Gushed Oil Into A Quebec River Has Spawned Freaky Fish

What is shocking, however, is the extent of the problem: the rate of the deformations in one sample was found to be ten times higher than normal.The 2013 derailment of freight...

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Warm Ocean Temperatures Helped Make 2015 A Record Year For Shark Attacks

Increasingly warm waters around the globe due to climate change and El Niño led to the highest number of shark attacks ever recorded in 2015, according to data released...

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Engineers Devise A Way To Harvest Wind Energy From Trees

Harvesting electrical power from vibrations or other mechanical stress is pretty easy. Turns out all it really takes is a bit of crystal or ceramic material and a couple of wi...

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Greenhouse Gases Could Eventually Heat The Earth Enough To Boil Its Oceans Away

In 2013, NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen published a short whitepaper that warned if humans burned all the planet’s available fossil fuels, it &...

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MOVIES: A GENTLE DOWNPOUR OF INDIE SUCCESS

Ritopriyo Saha’s short film Chhoti Baarish (Little Rain) is creating ripples acros...

October 19 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: THE QUESTION UNANSWERED

As India celebrates the birth centenary of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, the Bard of the Brahmapu...

October 18 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: FETED ABROAD, FORGOTTEN AT HOME

When art-house brilliance wins global acclaim but faces neglect in its own country, it f...

October 17 2025