Environment
Mountain glaciers shrinking across the West
21 Oct 2017
Pollution found to be world’s biggest killer; India worst hit
20 Oct 2017
Environmental pollution — from filthy air to contaminated water — causes more deaths than smoking, hunger or natural disasters; more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, according to a major study
Study reveals new threat to the ozone layer
17 Oct 2017
Warming seas could lead to 70% increase in hurricane-related financial loss
16 Oct 2017
If oceans warm at a rate predicted by a UN-sponsored group that assesses climate change research, expected financial losses caused by hurricanes could increase to $12 billion by 2100
Most Americans want the government to combat climate change, some willing to pay a high amount
14 Oct 2017
Scientists find gold in Swiss sewage system
13 Oct 2017
Scientists find gold in Swiss sewage system
13 Oct 2017
Pest resistance to biotech crops surging
11 Oct 2017
Researchers analyzed published data for 36 cases representing responses of 15 pest species in 10 countries on every continent except Antarctica. They discovered resistance that substantially reduced the efficacy of the Bt crops in the field in 16 cases as of 2016
Carbon feedback from forest soils will accelerate global warming, 26-year study projects
09 Oct 2017
Scientists find new source of radioactivity from Fukushima disaster
04 Oct 2017
Researchers hypothesise that high levels of radioactive cesium-137 released in 2011 were transported along the coast by ocean currents. Days and weeks after the accident, waves and tides brought the cesium onto the coast, where it became "stuck" to the surfaces of sand grains
Global methane emissions from agriculture larger than reported, according to new estimates
30 Sep 2017
2100: Some of us now living may witness the next mass extinction
23 Sep 2017
Daniel Rothman, professor of geophysics at MIT and the co-director of MIT's Lorenz Center, feels a sixth mass extinction will occur when a critical amount of carbon - which he analysed as 310 giga tonnes - is likely added to the oceans by the year 2100
Over 250 dead as 7.1 magnitude quake flattens Mexico City
20 Sep 2017
The powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.1 that struck central Mexico on Tuesday afternoon flattened at least 44 buildings in the heavily populated capital, burying the victims under the ruins and the rubble
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