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Hazardous smog over Beijing
Air pollution in China has gotten so bad lately that one environmentalist's wacky idea for a solution doesn't seem all that far-fetched: putting clean air in a can.
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Northeast braces for 'historic' blizzard
A potentially historic winter storm closed in on New England on Friday, with tens of millions of people in its path and already a trail of thousands of canceled flights. The latest forecast suggests that the worst of the weather could hit Boston, from about 5 p.m. Friday until Saturday morning, and bring in around 2 feet of snow.
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Why you should not buy a house without looking at it first...
A clifftop house that was bought at auction without being seen or surveyed by the buyer has started to collapse after the latest in a series of devastating landslides.
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Cannabis Isn’t So Green
Josh Harkinson considers the environmental impact of grow sites in California’s Humboldt County.
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Confirmed: There's life in buried Antarctic lake
Blobs and smears of microbial life growing in clear plastic disks are confirmation of a community living in a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists studying the lake have said.
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Could the Middle East run out of water? New NASA images warn of water shortage
NASA has reported that satellite images reveal an alarming depletion of two important Middle East fresh water sources, the latest sign the region could face a water shortage affecting millions.
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Death by breathing: Air pollution killing 620,000 Indians
Findings released by the scientists behind the study showed that annual premature deaths caused by particulate air pollution have increased six fold since 2000.
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Russian meteor blast injures at least 1,000 people
A meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region Friday morning, before exploding with a flash and boom that shattered glass in buildings and left about 1,000 people hurt, state media said.
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Is the Brazilian Amazon shrinking faster?
A new study of Brazil's rain forest says deforestation last year occurred more than twice as fast as in 2011.
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Are Oysters Doomed?: The Pickled Ocean Is Eating Away at Oysters, Clams, and Sea Butterflies
Ocean acidification, as scientists call this pickling of the seas, is, like climate change, a result of the enormous amount of carbon dioxide humans have pumped into the atmosphere.
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Dead Mice Are Going To Be Dropped On Guam From Helicopters (Really)
In April or May they're going to lace dead mice with painkillers, attach them to little parachutes, drop them from helicopters and hope that they get snagged in the jungle foliage. Then, if all goes well, the snakes — which as their name implies hang out in trees — will eat the mice and die from ingesting the painkillers' active ingredients.
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660,000 People In China Have Been Living With Almost No Water For Four Years
Photos of a severe drought in China's Yunnan province.
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Sharks at risk of extinction from overfishing, say scientists
Almost 100 million sharks are killed each year and many species need better protection, according to researchers.
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State lawmaker defends bike tax, says bicycling is not good for the environment
Representative Ed Orcutt does not think bicycling is environmentally friendly because the activity causes cyclists to have "an increased heart rate and respiration."
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Chart Shows How to Win Any Climate Change Argument
If you’re exhausted by climate change shouting matches or so flummoxed by confronting scientific ignorance that you suffer in silence, this chart might be for you. It provides responses to three of the common stages of climate change disbelief: that climate change isn’t happening, that scientists can’t decide whether it’s happening, and that it’s happening but not caused by mankind.
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China officials caught spray-painting grass green in Chengdu
The grass actually is greener in the south-western Chinese city of Chengdu, but only because it has been dyed.
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Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North's Growing Seasons
Vegetation growth at Earth's northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study.
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In China, public anger over secrecy on environment
When China's environment ministry told attorney Dong Zhengwei he couldn't have access to two-year old data about soil pollution because it was a "state secret", it added to mounting public outrage over the worsening environment.
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Spanish sperm whale death linked to UK supermarket supplier's plastic
Sperm whale on Spanish southern coast had swallowed 17kg of plastic waste dumped by greenhouses supplying produce to UK
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Are tropical forests resilient to global warming?
Tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass – plants and plant material - in response to greenhouse gas emissions over the twenty-first century than may previously have been thought, suggests a study published online this week in Nature Geoscience.
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