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Seven UN Experts Call Modi to Probe Firing in Thoothukudi

Geneva, Switzerland - Seven independent experts lambasted the lethal Indian police response to protests against the expansion of the heavily polluting copper smelter in...

Pentagon Honors Secretary of Defense Environmental Award Recipients

Washington, DC - The Defense Department is honoring nine winners with the 2018 Secretary of Defense Environmental Awards for exceptional environmental achievements and innovative, cost-effective environmental practices. The...

India Visit: Energy Secretary Perry Hosts USISPF Delegation

Washington, DC - US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry is scheduled to be in India at the end of February to further enhance bilateral...

Climate Change: Global Warming ‘Hiatus’ is Over

London, UK - It is official. The world is warming according to expectations. The so-called and much debated “pause” in global warming is over. And...

Climate Change: Why Earth Will Never Freeze Over

London - Scientists think they now know something profound about the Ice Ages. In a world in which carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere fall...

California Guardsmen Help Manage Evacuation Center

Petaluma, California - The presence of the California Army National Guard was enough for Deborah L. Dalton to put things into perspective. As thousands...

Biogas from Waste Can Oust Fossil Fuels

London - Countries with large quantities of waste from forestry, manure or straw from farms are now looking for economic ways to turn them into...

US Faces Higher Risk of Floods

London - Cities on America’s Atlantic coast are likely to see more flooding. It won’t just be catastrophic inundation, delivered by hurricane: it could also...

President Urges Vigilance as Hurricane Approaches Florida

Washington, DC - As Hurricane Irma continues to approach the coast of southern Florida today the federal government is working with state and local agencies...

Killer Beetle Takes US Forest Destruction North

London - An unwelcome invader from the south has begun to infiltrate the US, destroying property and reducing income – and this time the blame...

Warming Linked to Storm Harvey Devastation

London - Tropical storm Harvey is by any standard off the scale. Some parts of Texas have received in just over a week the rainfall...

Overlooked Flood Risks Put Many in Danger

London - With flood risks and damage from extreme events increasing across Europe, homeowners in areas of greatest risk are still not taking enough measures...

US Nuclear Might Rests on Civil Reactors

London - American experts say that US nuclear might depends  crucially on the civilian use of atomic energy, and believe the country will lose its...

New Generation Nuclear Designs Remain Elusive

London - New generation nuclear reactors, promised for the last 18 years by the United States Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) as a way to provide...

Plastics Leave Permanent Indestructible Legacy

London - US scientists have calculated yet another item on the human shopping list that makes up the modern world: plastics. They have estimated the...

Nuclear War Would Set Off Climate Catastrophe

London - Four US scientists have just introduced one more good reason not to launch a nuclear war. It would not simply guarantee the mutual...

Too Hot to Fly: Rising Heat May Ground Planes

London - US scientists have just added a new dimension of horror to the modern airport experience: global warming could take heat wave temperatures to...

‘America First’ Trump Readies Red Carpet for ‘Make In India’ Modi

Washington, DC - US President Donald Trump will meet visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the first time on Monday (June 26) since...

Gore Spurns Trump on Climate Change

London - Donald Trump “cannot rewrite history”, and no matter what he says or does the Paris Agreement to limit climate change will survive and...

Trump Abandons Science with Climate Walk-out

London - President Donald Trump abandons science with his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change, saying: “I was...

Ice Memory Quest Heads to Threatened Glacier

London - An ambitious scientific expedition is due to start work on May 22 on Bolivia’s second-highest mountain, Illimani. The researchers plan to drill...

Eyes Show that Stress Reduces Climate Concern

London - People who are stressed pay less attention to climate change images and struggle to be receptive to messages about its impact, a study...

Oil Industry Power is Slithering Away

London - Big oil is getting smaller. Many of the oil services companies that are employed when new fields are being developed have been laying...

Scientists Take on Greenhouse Gas Challenge

London - Swiss scientists have found a way to turn the potent greenhouse gas methane into the fuel methanol – with help from water and...

American Climate Refugees could Flee Inland

London - If humans go on burning ever greater volumes of fossil fuel, then dramatic rises in sea levels could turn 13 million US...

Changes in Climate Could Bowl out Cricket

London - Cricket’s global administrators love a board meeting – all mahogany chairs, glass tables and endless supplies of upmarket coffee. There is much...

Current Climate Makes Little Ice Age Look Puny

London - The famous Little Ice Age, when Londoners could roast oxen on the frozen River Thames, may not have been so icy after...

Slice of Greenland Ice Melts into Oblivion

London - By the century’s end, some of Greenland’s ice will have vanished forever. New research shows that the coastal glaciers and ice caps are...

Plants Can’t Cover up Fossil Fuel Damage

London - The vegetable world – the original consumer society – is responding to climate change. As the supply of carbon dioxide goes up,...

Jet Streams Stumble as the World Warms

London - Researchers have once again linked a sequence of devastating climate events to global warming fueled by prodigal human use of fossil fuels....

CO2 Levels Heading Back to Days of Dinosaurs

London - If humans burn all the fossil fuels at their disposal – and this could happen in the next two centuries – researchers predict...

America’s Farmers Face Uncertain Future

London - Spare a thought for the farmers of America: climate change is going to make their lives more difficult. Growing seasons will be extended,...

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