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A Big Earthquake Just Hit Oklahoma — And It Might Be the Oil Industry’s Fault

The quake struck at?1:42am?and was centered just southwest of Cherokee, Oklahoma, the US Geological Survey reported. It was the biggest to hit the area this year, but there we...

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Dwindling Snowpack Around The World Threatens The Water Supply For 2 Billion People

Scientists from Stanford University and Columbia University's Earth Institute?said?that if greenhouse gas emissions continue along their current trajectory, about 97 snow-depe...

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Unless Earth Is Hit By A Huge Asteroid, 2015 Will Likely Be The Hottest Year On Record

"This marked the sixth consecutive month a monthly global temperature record has been broken and was also the?greatest departure from average for any month?in the 1,630 months...

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Choking Air, Melting Glaciers: How Global Warming Is Changing India

Its Himalayan glaciers are melting fast, its agricultural heartland is drying up and its capital is choking on the world's filthiest air. Yet India's government is one of the ...

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This App Will Tell You Exactly How Much You’re Destroying the Planet

Rather, the primary obstacle to combating climate change remains social in nature, which is why a team of researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NT...

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The Dispersants Used After The BP Blowout Did More Harm Than Good

Chemical dispersants were supposed to make it easier for undersea bacteria to digest the oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Read More...

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China Is Tapping Tibetan Glaciers To Meet Growing Demand For Bottled Water

Driven both by convenience and concerns about the country's widespread pollution, the Chinese drank nearly 10.6 billion gallons of bottled water in 2013, the Hong Kong-based w...

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Even Glaciers Near The North Pole Are Melting

Jeremie Mouginot and his team reconstructed the shape and movements of the glacier to track how it has changed in geometry due to melting from below caused by warm water intru...

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NASA Hopes Its Dramatic CO2 Simulations Will Get UN Leaders To Act

In a press release, NASA said that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measures at 400 parts per million (ppm), but it?s rising at 2 ppm every year. While we...

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Robots Will Make Leeds The First Self-Repairing City

The idea is to create a city that behaves almost like a living organism,? said Raul Fuentes, a researcher at the School of Civil Engineering at Leeds University, who is workin...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: CELEBRITIES AND RIGHT TO PRIVACY

From Mystique to Masses: How Modern Media Transformed Stardom into Spectacle. Monojit La...

November 26 2024

POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024