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Heavily Polluted India Launches National Air Quality Index
India has launched a new air quality index to help citizens understand complex pollution data and its implications for their health, the environment minister said on Friday.
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Cutting Global Warming Pollution Just Business as Usual at Some Major Companies
A new ranking lists top corporate efforts to combat climate change
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Wind Power Blows Away Coal and Gas in Nordic Countries
Wind power is blowing gas and coal-fired turbines out of business in the Nordic countries, and the effects will be felt across the Baltic region as the renewable glut erodes utility margins for thermal power stations...
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China to Punish Carmakers Who Fail to Meet Fuel Targets
By Samuel Shen and Norihiko Shirouzu SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it would punish carmakers by restricting their production and publicly naming them if they fail to meet fuel consumption requirements on passenger vehicles set for 2015...
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Credits and Fines Allow Carmakers to Comply with Fuel Efficiency Standards
Cars, SUVs and pickup trucks sold in the U.S. are quickly becoming more fuel efficient, in large part because Federal rules require them to be.
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Global Pesticide Scorecard Maps Performance
The prevalence of pesticides may seem like something of a bygone era, one marked by Silent Spring and the Bhopal Disaster, but the grim reality is that they are unfortunately very much around...
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A Personal Rapid Transit System for Raleigh Commuters?
We long ago lost the skill of paying for the things we need: I won’t bore you with the statistics of how far we are behind in our infrastructure investments.
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Canada to Badly Miss 2020 Emissions-Cut Target
Canada is set to badly miss a 2020 target for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, in part because of its failure to regulate the booming oil and gas sector, Parliament's environmental watchdog said ...
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Carbon Capture Begins at First Full-Sized, Coal-Fired Power Plant
On October 2, the Boundary Dam power plant in Saskatchewan became the first full-sized coal-fired boiler to capture the copious carbon dioxide that had previously billowed from its smokestack, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere...
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Gaming Carbon Must End to Solve Global Warming
Can economic incentives evolve to combat climate change?
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Merchants of Doubt Author Slams "Corrosive" Climate Change Skepticism
Historian of science Naomi Oreskes, now at Harvard, first came to my attention 20 years ago, when she and two co-authors argued in Science that “verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible.” In The End of Science, I cited the Oreskes et al...
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U.S. on Track to Become World’s Leading Liquid Petroleum Producer
The U.S. is on track to become the world’s leading liquid petroleum producer. According to IEA, domestic production of oil was about 11.5m barrels a day in August, and the Financial Times reports that we are likely to surpass Saudi Arabia’s production for the first time in 23 years...
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What Are the Most Dangerous Threats to Air Quality?
Smog and soot top the list, even though there are remedies for both
Leaking CO2 Fails to Cause Marine Catastrophe
Carbon dioxide that escapes from storage underneath the seafloor is not likely to harm the environment, based on a recent experiment
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New Formula Could Cut Pollution from Concrete
The new concrete would contribute less to global warming and be stronger
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China and U.S. Promise to Combat Climate Change
The world's two largest polluters committed to taking action against global warming—but offered few specifics
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Researchers Produce Propane Using E. Coli Bacteria
A team of scientists has transformed E.coli bacteria into a propane factory. In their Nature magazine article, researchers from the University of Turku (Finland) and Imperial College (United Kingdom) described a new metabolic pathway for producing propane from Escherichia coli (E.coli)...
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Climate Change Will Be Solved in Cities--Or Not at All
As world leaders gathered at the U.N. to talk about global warming, mayors set about actually doing something about climate change
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Corporate Leaders Plot a Path to a Low-Carbon Future
As protesters rally, corporate boardrooms struggle over how to prevent further global warming
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300,000-Plus People March for Climate Action, In Pictures
The Sunday morning rush hour is not usually known for packing people into subway cars like sardines. But September 21, 2014 was not your average Sunday commute as hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, Americans from across the country and foreign contingents converged on Columbus Circle and Central Park West for the People’s Climate March...
