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Exxon’s 1970s Climate Projections Were Scarily Accurate
The oil giant's internal climate models correctly forecast the climate change we're seeing now—all while the company pushed denial in public.
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Drying Great Salt Lake Could Expose Millions to Toxic Arsenic-Laced Dust
The largest saline lake in North America is on track to collapse within five years, a new report finds
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Fukushima water to be released into ocean in next few months, says Japan
Authorities to begin release of a million tonnes of water from stricken nuclear plant after treatment to remove most radioactive material
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Study: Exxon Mobil accurately predicted warming since 1970s
DENVER — Exxon Mobil’s scientists were remarkably accurate in their predictions about global warming, even as the company made public statements that contradicted its own scientists’ conclusions, a new study
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PFAS: you can't smell, see or taste these chemicals, but they are everywhere – and they're highly toxic to humans
Humans perceive risk based largely on what we can see, smell and taste. Those senses serve us well when there are perceptible dangers to our health and the environment. We can see and smell raw sewage and as such it is widely perceived as a risk to human and environmental health. The increasing concern of scientists about the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in sewage has confirmed its actual risk. The Environment Agency also reports that pollution from sewage discharge is a leading cause of poor river quality in England.
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Your stuff is actually worse now
How the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products.
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New York City's greenery absorbs a surprising amount of its carbon emissions
A study of vegetation across New York City and some densely populated adjoining areas has found that on many summer days, photosynthesis by trees and grasses absorbs all the carbon emissions produced by cars, trucks and buses, and then some. The surprising result, based on new hyper-local vegetation maps, points to the underappreciated importance of urban greenery in the carbon cycle. The study is published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
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Corrected ozone data estimate fracking and drilling produce more emissions than every Front Range vehicle
To explain Colorado's consistent smog problem, regulators and scientists often point to two main sources of local air pollution: traffic and oil and gas. Driving and fossil-fuel production both release large amounts of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, two categories of chemicals that react to form ozone when exposed to heat and sunlight.
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Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Is Ending
On New Years' Day, several Stanford scientists joined CBS' Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes" to discuss the mass extinction crisis. No one had any good news.
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UK study adds to evidence of air pollution link to long-term illness
Research found greater chances of multiple chronic illnesses in people living in polluted areas
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Here's how many times you need to reuse your reusable grocery bags
The battle against the single-use plastic bag may not be won but it’s definitely under way. Restrictions on their use are in place in almost a dozen US states and in many other countries around the world. And in many cases, these efforts have been successful at eliminating new sales of thin, wispy plastic bags that float up into trees, clog waterways, leech microplastics into soil and water and harm marine life. (Of course, these restrictions don’t address the plastic bags already out there that will take centuries to decompose.)
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Human hair recycled in Belgium to protect the environment
Coiffeurs across Belgium are sweeping up and bagging hair clipped from their customers, and then handing it over to an NGO that recycles it to protect the environment.
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Fossil Fuel Villain of the Year: Shell CEO Ben van Beurden
Natural gas causes methane emissions. Ben can’t handle hearing that, apparently.
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Big oil is behind conspiracy to deceive public, first climate racketeering lawsuit says
Lawyer in a civil lawsuit launched by towns in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico describes why it is using laws used to target mob bosses
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Global coal consumption to reach all-time high this year
Global coal consumption is set to rise to an all-time high in 2022 and remain at similar levels in the next few years if stronger efforts are not made to move to a low-carbon economy, a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday.
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Single-use plastic items to be banned in England — reports
Cutlery, plates and polystyrene cups reportedly set to be banned in England after a consultation
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Ford dumped toxic sludge on tribal land. Years later, it’s still making people sick
A lawsuit filed by New Jersey will attempt to hold Ford accountable for decades of environmental damage to native lands. Richard Hall talks to the residents still fighting for justice.
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A trash heap 62 meters high shows the scale of India's climate challenge
At the Bhalswa landfill in northwest Delhi, a steady flow of jeeps zigzag up the trash heap to dump more garbage on a pile now over 62 meters (203 feet) high.
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Climate change is hammering insects — in the tropics and everywhere else: Scientists
Climate change-induced higher temperatures, shifting seasons, extreme drought and precipitation events, extended heat waves and fires are all impacting insects, with resonating effects on habitats, other wildlife and humanity.
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Keystone pipeline leaks 14,000 barrels of oil into creek in biggest spill yet
The leak occurred in Washington county, Kansas, with the affected segment being ‘isolated’ and the drip contained
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