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The giant iceberg known as A-68 that was produced in the Antarctic last week continues to drift seaward. All the latest satellite images indicate...
Sweden blazes trail to electric cars
The growing popularity of electric cars leads one major European manufacturer to a sharp cut in fossil fuel-driven vehicle production.
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Heritage at Risk: How Rising Seas Threaten Ancient Coastal Ruins
Perched on the breathtaking Atlantic coast of Mainland, the largest island in Scotland’s Orkney archipelago, are the remains of the Stone Age settlement of...
4 Bacteria Capable Of Reversing Climate Change By Eating Pollution
Genetically modified bacteria might hold the key to reversing climate change by reversing environmental contamination by pollutants. Such bacteria might not only be able...
UNDP and the Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea of the Republic of Italy...
Jul 17, 2017
Magdy Martínez-Solimán, UN Assistant Secretary General and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support and Director General Francesco La Camera,...
10 Pacific Island Journalists Invited to Cover COP23
COP23 will be held on November 17.
As the result of a journalism competition that concluded this week, ten journalists from the Pacific island region...
In Chile, Many Regard Climate Change As The Greatest External Threat
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Fernando Rojas has spent his life living by a large lake in central Chile. About seven years ago it began to shrink,...
Because… Climate Change
When our group of pipeline opponents goes to Washington this week to call on senators to reject Donald Trump’s nominees to the Federal Energy...
Saudi Arabia looks past oil and pushes ahead with wind energy ambitions
Saudi Arabia prepares its major wind project. Regis Duvignau / Reuters
Saudi Arabia has resumed its efforts to launch the kingdom’s first large-scale wind...
How climate change strangled a Jurassic ocean ecosystem
183 million years ago, oceans around the world started running low on oxygen. Though the cause of what is called the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic...
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