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This Is What China Looks Like When Its Cities Are On A 'Red Alert' For Smog

A red alert is the highest of a four-level warning system aimed at communicating to the public the amount of hazardous particles in the air. The alert is triggered when the go...

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Cheese Can Now Power A Town — In France, Of Course

In a large snow-white globe on the edge of town, bacteria bred in whey, the liquid that remains after milk has been curdled and strained to make cheese, are hard at work gener...

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5 Mobile Apps That Help You Go Green!

Going green isn?t always the easiest thing to do ? especially for those of us living in huge, urban cities. Luckily, eco-consciousness is intersecting with technology in whole...

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Britain Needs to Move Its Antarctic Base Because the Ice Shelf Is Cracking

You can?t stop nature, so there?s only one thing for it: the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is setting up to relocate Halley VI, the latest version of the Halley Research Stat...

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Here Are The Ways People Cope With China's Dirty Air

The most recent alert, issued this past Friday, was applied to four major cities in addition to Beijing, where the concentration of PM2.5 in some parts of the city peaked at o...

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The Top 6 Good-News Stories of 2015

This is a tough time to feel optimistic about the future. With the notable exception of impressive global cooperation on climate change and energy, our papers and screens have...

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The Obama Administration Just Made It Virtually Impossible For Hunters To Import African Lion Trophies

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has placed two African lion subspecies under its protection, declaring one type in west-central Africa endangered and the other, found in east...

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Watch Climate Change Eat This Canadian Island

The water bound Pacific nation of Kiribati isn't the only island that's being swallowed by the ocean. A new video by National Geographic shows the rising Atlantic eating away ...

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No, Bacon Isn't Better For The Environment Than Lettuce

That surprising claim was featured prominently on the press release for the study, which also included a statement from one of the study's authors, Paul Fischbeck: "Eating let...

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Elon Musk: Not Paying Carbon Taxes Is Like Not Paying for Garbage Collection

Spacex CEO Elon Musk Recently?Trekked To Paris To Give A Talk During The Climate Discussions?That Resulted In A?Global Treaty.?On Tuesday, He Spoke To A Packed Audience In San...

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RETROSCOPE: MIRACLE AND ‘THE CURSE’ OF JAI SANTOSHI MAA

Khalid Mohamed looks back at 1975, the year of Sholay and the miraculous success of Jai ...

October 22 2025

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