People Who Try To Be Environmentally-Friendly By Buying Less Stuff Are Happier, Study Claims

By Emily Reynolds. In contrast, people who “buy green” are not any happier.

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Is A Diet That's Healthy For Us Also Better For The Planet? Most Of The Time, Yes

A vast new analysis looked at 15 different food groups, like nuts, fish and red meat, ranking them based on how they influence health and the toll they take on the planet.

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This Alaska mine could generate $1 billion a year. Is it worth the risk to salmon?

A giant open-pit copper and gold dig above Alaska's Bristol Bay could yield sales of more than $20 billion in two decades, but Pebble Mine would place the world's greatest wild salmon run at risk forever.

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Elon Musk offers discounted solar panels and batteries after California blackouts

Tesla is offering a discount on solar panels and batteries to people who are affected by wildfire power outages, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted today. More than 2 million people across California have been affected by power outages since October 25th as utility companies try to prevent their power lines from sparking new blazes. A fire just north of San Francisco has already consumed more than 66,000 acres and is only 5 percent under control.

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Why are big storms bringing so much more rain? Warming, yes, but also winds

For three hurricane seasons in a row, storms with record-breaking rainfall have caused catastrophic flooding in the southern United States. A new analysis by Princeton researchers explains why this trend is likely to continue with global warming: Both the higher moisture content of warmer air and storms’ increasing wind speeds conspire to produce wetter storms.

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Healthy diet means a healthy planet, study shows

Eating healthy food is almost always also best for the environment, according to the most sophisticated analysis to date. The researchers said poor diets threaten society by seriously harming people and the planet, but the latest research can inform better choices.

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The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles

The network of clear streams comprising California’s Strawberry Creek run down the side of a steep, rocky mountain in a national forest two hours east of Los Angeles. Last year Nestlé siphoned 45m gallons of pristine spring water from the creek and bottled it under the Arrowhead Water label.

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Brown: California fires show 'the horror' world will face from climate change

As Californians suffer widespread power outages and mass evacuations due to wildfire dangers, former Gov. Jerry Brown is warning that the dark scenario may be “only the beginning” for Americans across the country — unless officials in Washington seriously tackle the issue of climate change.

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Super-rich fuelling growing demand for private jets, report finds

Almost 8,000 new private jets are expected to be bought by multinational companies and the super-rich over the next decade, each of which will burn 40 times as much carbon per passenger as regular commercial flights, according to a report by aviation firm Honeywell Aerospace.

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Ingenious solution saves birds from flying into glass windows

Dozens of rainbow lorikeets have been flying into large glass windows at a Queensland university — some dying on impact — but a unique style of curtain has come to the rescue.

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The sea of 60 ghostly wrecked ships

The old town of Nessebar is near-enough an island: a half mile of weathered wooden fishing houses with terracotta-tiled roofs that sit atop a rocky head, strung to the Bulgarian coast by only a narrow land bridge. It’s also a dense stack of ruins layered on top of one another that stretch back more than 3,000 years, and is recognised by Unesco as a World Heritage site.

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A lightbulb moment for nuclear fusion?

Scientists pursuing the holy grail of energy generation are taking giant steps

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My Grandfather’s Halloween Treat Changed Our Block Forever

When I think of Halloween, I don’t think of candy, costumes, or even the Halloween movie franchise, though I do love Jamie Lee Curtis. Instead, I think of one thing: three slightly overripe pumpkins carefully buckled into the back of my grandfather’s 1993 Buick LeSabre.

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As the Arctic heats up, what’s in store for its food webs?

The view from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, is endless snow-covered mountains and glassy, frigid water. You need to travel roughly 400 miles west from the remote Norwegian archipelago to reach the northeast coast of Greenland.

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Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink

Two-thirds of North American birds are at increasing risk of extinction from global temperature rise.

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Someday, They'll Be Amazed We Didn't Impeach Trump Over the Climate Crisis

Yeah, Ukraine. But actively undermining our efforts to combat an existential threat to human civilization as we know it surely qualifies as a high crime.

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MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air

A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool in the battle against climate change. The new system can work on the gas at virtually any concentration level, even down to the roughly 400 parts per million currently found in the atmosphere.

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Massachusetts Sues Exxon Over Climate Change, Accusing Oil Giant of Fraud

Exxon is facing allegations of deceptive advertising, misleading investors and actions that threaten the world economy. It's already on trial in New York.

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Offshore wind to become a $1 trillion industry

COPENHAGEN – Offshore wind power will expand impressively over the next two decades, boosting efforts to decarbonise energy systems and reduce air pollution as it becomes a growing part of electricity supply, according to an International Energy Agency report published today.

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Earth's rocks can absorb a shocking amount of carbon: here’s how

The depths of the planet offer a rock-hard potential solution to climate change.

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Glacial rivers absorb carbon faster than rainforests, scientists find

‘Total surprise’ discovery overturns conventional understanding of rivers

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7,000-year-old fortress wall uncovered in southern Turkey

Afortress wall dating 7,000 years back to the Chalcolithic Age has been unearthed at the Yumuktepe Mound in southern Turkey's Mersin province. The Yumuktepe Mound is highly significant as a continuous settlement for 9,000 years since the Neolithic Age.

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Why Big Oil faces court cases that echo the litigation against Big Tobacco in the '90s | CBC News

How much did the oil industry know about the impact of fossil fuel emissions on the climate? When did they know it? And what did they do with that knowledge? Those are the central questions in a series of court cases attempting to hold companies accountable for their role in climate change.

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What if we measured the thing that matters most: "carbon productivity"

Labor productivity doesn't matter as much as emissions productivity. Workers aren't a particularly finite resource.

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U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says

The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects.

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Amazon rainforest 'close to irreversible tipping point'

Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021

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The Mission to Scan the Whole Planet with Lidar Before It's Too Late

Amidst the climate crisis, this archaeologist calls his plan "the ultimate gift to future generations."

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Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think

Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that?

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Study: Ants are “immune” to traffic jams

Unlike self-interested humans, ants have a common goal: the colony's survival.

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Face of medieval man reconstructed from 600-year-old skeleton

Experts believe ancient remains show someone with extensive dental and joint disease

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Scientists in the Amazon Have Recorded the World's Loudest Bird. It Hits a Painful 125 Decibels

The male white bellbird sings so loud in the face of potential mates -- louder than a chain saw three feet away -- that it may damage their hearing.

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Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change

Recently, the U.K. Met Office announced a revision to the Hadley Center historical analysis of sea surface temperatures (SST), suggesting that the oceans have warmed about 0.1 degree Celsius more than previously thought.

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Climate change: Who do we blame for the climate crisis? Expert says blame 'big companies'

CLIMATE change is in part the direct result of big industry players who have denied and lied about climate science for years, a leading climate expert has told Express.co.uk.

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50,000-year-old, tar-smeared tool shows Neanderthal smarts

Rare, submerged tool suggests Neanderthals had mastered the complex technology of tarmaking

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The Greening of Paris Makes Its Mayor More Than a Few Enemies

As Anne Hidalgo declares war on the car, drivers rage at the disruptions, but supporters credit her with preparing Paris for a hotter future.

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Romania forest murder as battle over logging turns violent

Liviu Pop died last week, the second forest ranger killed in the past month.

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Poppies, dandelions and daisies bloom in never before seen Arctic oases

‘Blooming’ might be the last word to associate with the Arctic, yet pictures below show meadows bursting with life as brightly-coloured flowers blossom in lush green grass. And while vegetation in khasyreis, basins of drained Arctic lakes, is less of a surprise, researchers discovered ‘bursts of life’ next to a residential settlement where permafrost ice veins were broken when people dug sand pits.

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Why people still think climate change is a hoax: The psychological reason why

Denial happens when climate science rubs us the wrong way.

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Powerful storms may be causing offshore ‘stormquakes’

A perfect-storm mixture of hurricane, ocean and seafloor topography can create distinct seismic signals called “stormquakes.”

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Artist creates deepfake birdsong to highlight threat to dawn chorus

Somerset House exhibit will feature natural birdsong being taken over by artificial sound

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10 million trees symbolizing the unity of 10 million Armenians to be planted in 2020 - Public Radio of Armenia

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today attended the opening of the Global Innovation Forum-2019: Transforming Intelligence.” Welcoming the organizers, participants and guests of the Global Innovation Forum, Prime Minister Pashinyan emphasized the importance of holding such events in the Republic of Armenia from the point of view of regulating and developing human-technology relations.

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Resisting drought's day zero: the NSW towns close to running dry

After water restrictions and emergency infrastructure, the final drought strategy is sheer perseverance

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Feelings of ‘despair’: Climate change activists testify against EPA plans to roll back methane emissions standards

Myrelis “Mara” Diaz never expected to move to the U.S. mainland. That wasn’t in her plans. But on Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria raged through Puerto Rico and tore up her San Juan apartment complex, leaving residents without running water. An AmeriCorps worker, Diaz spent the following days lugging heavy jugs of water up the stairs for her neighbors. She’d come home without food for herself. One day on a water delivery, when she tripped on the stairs and bruised a chunk of her leg, she decided she’d had enough.

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The world’s downtowns are slowly giving up on personal cars

Increasingly, the world's biggest cities want the main drag to be for anything but driving.

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Communicating uncertainty about climate change

The more specific climate scientists are about the uncertainties of global warming, the more the American public trusts their predictions, according to new research by Stanford scholars.

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How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

Audio obtained by The Intercept reveals how Coca-Cola’s “green” philanthropy helped squelch an important tool in fighting the plastic crisis.

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'Just don't waste': David Attenborough's heartfelt message to next generation

David Attenborough has delivered a heartfelt message to children around the world on how they can help save the planet: “Live the way you want to live but just don’t waste.” At the first screening of the BBC’s forthcoming blockbuster nature series, Seven Worlds, One Planet, the 93-year-old offered his advice to a five-year-old in the London audience. The boy was overwhelmed by nerves when handed the microphone, so his father asked his question on his behalf: “What can he do to save the planet?”

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Qatar so unbearably hot it has started air-conditioning the outdoors

Temperatures in Qatar – one of the hottest places on Earth – have risen so much that authorities have installed air conditioning in the open air including in streets and outdoor markets. The country, where summer temperatures now reach up to 46C, has already started air-conditioning its football stadiums in preparation for November’s World Cup – itself delayed because of the extreme heat.

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This startup is saving crops by making 'super bees'

One company wants to help farmers adapt to a world of rapidly declining bee populations.

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Air pollution caused 400,000 premature European deaths in 2016: EU agency

Poor air quality caused about 400,000 premature deaths in Europe in 2016

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