China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016

independent.co.uk 15 hours ago

The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first...

 
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WATCH: Tornado Victim Finds Dog During CBS Interview

huffingtonpost.com 17 hours ago

A CBS news segment provided a rare moment of good news stemming from Monday's devastating tornado when a storm victim found her dog during an on-air interview...

 
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The anti-nature narrative in UK politics is hard to fathom

guardian.co.uk 59 mins ago

Tony Juniper: An absence of positive political debate about the natural world is even more troubling than the decline in UK species revealed by State of Nature report

 
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Big-cat sightings: is Britain suffering from mass hysteria?

guardian.co.uk 16 hours ago

In 1995, government inspectors spent months on Bodmin moor in Cornwall looking for evidence of a 'beast' roaming wild there. They found nothing...

 
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Twitter hit-and-run boast shows dangers of 'road tax' entitlement

guardian.co.uk 22 hours ago

Dawn Foster: When drivers say cyclists don't belong on the roads because they 'don't pay tax', it is a dangerous, dehumanising attitude

 
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Breakthrough clean gold mining technique replaces cyanide with... cornstarch!

treehugger.com 12 hours ago

Mining gold's a dirty business. To extract gold from raw ore, a lot of cyanide is required, and wherever a lot of cyanide is found, there are also big environmental risks.

 
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Lost in translocation? How bird song could help save species

sciencedaily.com 5 hours ago

Translocation – or moving animals to safer places – is a vital tool for saving species from extinction...

 
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The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictment

scienceblogs.com 20 May

This is a brief chronology of the current Conservative Canadian government’s long campaign to undermine evidence-based scientific, environmental and technical decision-making...

 
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New method for producing clean hydrogen

sciencedaily.com 13 hours ago

Engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications.

 
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Study reveals how fishing gear can cause slow death of whales

sciencedaily.com 8 hours ago

Using a "patient monitoring" device attached to a whale entangled in fishing gear, scientists showed for the first time how fishing lines changed a whale's diving and swimming behavior...

 
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Whole neighborhoods razed by Oklahoma tornado that killed 24

reuters.com 9 hours ago

MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and thousands of survivors were homeless on Tuesday after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of...

 
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LOOK: The Deadliest States For Tornadoes

huffingtonpost.com 13 hours ago

Recent extreme weather events seem to reach into unlikely corners of the U.S., but the massive tornado that devastated Moore, Okla., on Monday tore right through the edge of a region so often battered...

 
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Climate change and wildfire

sciencedaily.com 5 hours ago

Concerns continue to grow about the effects of climate change on fire...

 
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Book Club with Ian McEwan

guardian.co.uk 9 hours ago

Join the author for a discussion of his spy novel Sweet Tooth at Kings Place on Thursday 4 July

 
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John Cooper Clarke, poet – portrait of the artist

guardian.co.uk 17 hours ago

'Johnny Depp owes me – he pinched my whole look in Edward Scissorhands'

 
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How America Became a Third World Country

huffingtonpost.com 16 hours ago

It's 2023 -- and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect.

 
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PHOTOS: Tornado Aftermath Leaves Trail Of Destruction

huffingtonpost.com 21 hours ago

By Alice Mannette Ian Simpson MOORE, Okla., May 21 (Reuters) - Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and an hospital...

 
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WATCH: Mom's Emotional Reunion With Son After Tornado

huffingtonpost.com 16 hours ago

After the tornado hit Moore, Okla., on Monday, and severely damaged two elementary schools, fearful parents scrambled to search for their children...

 
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DR Congo waits on funding for world's largest hydropower project

guardian.co.uk 18 hours ago

Complete set of Grand Inga dams on the Congo River would generate a massive 40,000MW of electricity

 
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LOOK: Mapping The Tornado's Destruction Path

huffingtonpost.com 6 hours ago

As downtown Moore, Okla., slowly emerges from the wreckage of the tornado that ravaged its core, the structures that remain are starting to serve important purposes...

 
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Record Burmese python caught in Florida

guardian.co.uk 18 hours ago

Snake, which measured 18.8ft and weighed 128lbs, was caught alongside rural road in Miami Dade county

 
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Social Media 'Storm Chasers' Take Grave Risks

huffingtonpost.com 8 hours ago

When Tim Baker began racing to the front lines of unfolding natural disasters 18 years ago, it was just him, his video cameras and the tornado.

 
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F.A.A.’s Concerns Hold Up Use of Wildfire Drones

nytimes.com 8 hours ago

While federal firefighters explore the use of drones to map a wildfire’s size and speed, safety requirements of the F.A.A. is holding up testing and implementation.

 
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The Most Patient Dog Ever

huffingtonpost.com 16 hours ago

Sometimes when a kitten gets all up in your biz, you just have to take it. Via Tastefully Offensive

 
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WakaWaka Power is your personal pocket-sized solar power station

treehugger.com 17 hours ago

This rugged solar charger is powerful enough to charge up a smartphone in two hours, yet small enough to fit in your pocket.

 
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High Plains Aquifer Dwindles, Hurting Farmers

nytimes.com 20 May

Parts of the vast High Plains Aquifer are so low that crops can’t be watered and bridges span arid stream beds.

 
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Obama Weighs In On Devastating Tornado Damage

huffingtonpost.com 18 hours ago

President Barack Obama spoke Tuesday on the damage from a massive tornado that ripped through the town of Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday...

 
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BP, Shell, Statoil accused of fixing oil prices

grist.org 20 May

European officials have raided the oil companies' offices, and now a U.S. senator wants an investigation launched on this side of the pond.

 
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Many Insurance Payments Won't Cut It After Oklahoma Disaster

huffingtonpost.com 8 hours ago

As people in central Oklahoma emerge from the wreckage of the tornado that flattened entire neighborhoods, some will face another bitter realization: Residents of Moore and neighboring areas may lack...

 
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Number of 'excellent' quality UK beaches plummets

guardian.co.uk 16 hours ago

Wet weather, which caused more discharges of raw sewage from the waste water system, is the most likely cause

 
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Why Global Warming’s Effects Will Be Worse Than You Were Thinking

scienceblogs.com 20 hours ago

The story of climate change has always been more of worst-case, or at least, worser-case scenarios developing and less about good news showing up out of nowhere and making us unexpectedly happy...

 
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Scotland to launch wave energy sector fund

scotsman.com 4 hours ago

Scotland will be the first part of the UK to have a dedicated fund to help with the development of the wave energy sector, energy minister Fergus Ewing said.

 
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Over 80% of dogs suffer from hypothermia after surgery with anesthetic

sciencedaily.com 7 hours ago

Veterinarians have completed the first global study that clinically documents the prevalence of hypothermia in dogs after surgery and after diagnostic tests that require anesthetic...

 
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Shell suffers embarrassing shareholder rebellion over executive pay

guardian.co.uk 15 hours ago

Bonus awarded to outgoing chief executive Peter Voser prompts 8% of shareholders to vote against remuneration policy

 
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