Environment

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Rescuers desperately working to free humpback whale in Sydney Harbour

The National Parks and Wildlife Service has dispatched its large whale disentanglement team to help in freeing the anima...

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Megatsunami risk on the rise as glacial melt drives landslides

Geoscientists studying 200m-high wave that hit Greenland coast last year warn of potentially disastrous impactJust under...

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Illegal Mining Threatens Densu River and Potable Water Supply in Eastern Region

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://newsghana.com.gh/illegal-mining-threatens-den...

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National weather forecast for Friday August 23

National weather forecast for Friday August 23....

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Counter the urban heat island effect – how history’s lessons apply to cities today

As intense heat breaks records around the world, a little-reported fact offers some hope for cooling down cities: Under ...

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Thirsty bees shut down part of Joshua Tree National Park

The Cottonwood area has been temporarily closed for visitor’s safety....

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How Electric-Vehicle Battery Fires Happen—and How You Should React

Here’s everything you need to know about lithium-ion battery fires in EVs and what you can do to stay safe if one star...

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Research forecasts warmer, rainier winter storms ahead for Great Lakes region

Anyone who's spent their winter months around the Great Lakes has probably had the uncanny experience of living through ...

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Met Office warns people to secure their gardens as Storm Lilian threatens 80mph winds in Wales

There is a weather warning in place for parts of Wales as Storm Lilian sweeps over the UK and people are being warned to...

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Rockefeller Foundation Invests in Uganda's Climate Change Health National Adaption Plan (H-NAP)

Collaborating to launch the country's bold, new evidence-based climate resilient health system KAMPALA, Uganda, Aug. 22,...

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Environment – Kiwi beyond borders

The kiwi bird’s Latin name, Apteryx, means without wings. But, in fact, they have little vestigial evolutionary wing r...

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Cirba Solutions Hosts U.S. DOE, Showcasing Leadership in Critical Materials Infrastructure

U.S. Department of Energy Witnesses first-hand the domestic battery recycling capacity being built by an industry leader...

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BlueWave Unveils Portfolio of Projects Expanding Agrivoltaics Work and Providing Greater Access to Clean Energy for the Commonwealth

The portfolio features five projects across the state which allow for uninterrupted farming operations and animal grazin...

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US water reservoirs are shrinking and becoming less reliable, new study finds

Major water reservoirs across the continental United States are experiencing longer, more severe, and more variable peri...

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Bandera Electric Cooperative's Virtual Power Plant Qualifies for ERCOT Wholesale Power Market Participation

BANDERA, Texas, Aug. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bandera Electric Cooperative (BEC), in collaboration with the Lower Colora...

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Doomist or realist? Meet the scientist who says the climate collapse has already begun

Jem Bendell was made famous by his paper Deep Adaptation, in which he argued that climate collapse was inevitable. Now h...

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One half of world-famous gay penguin couple dies in Sydney aquarium

Sphen, an Australian gentoo penguin who became an unlikely global symbol for equality, has died from apparent natural ca...

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Chile’s Codelco could face $8 million fine for tailings dam violations

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's environmental regulator on Thursday said it filed two charges against state copper giant Co...

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Security guard arrested for misbehaviour with nine-year-old girl at Kokapet

After her parent’s returned, the girl informed them of what happened and the parents lodged a complaint with the polic...

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Antlion larvae can ‘play dead’ for more than an hour–then, things get random

Sometimes, when an animal comes in contact with a predator, its last ditch effort to survive is to lay down completely s...

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Evaluation of climate policy measures over two decades finds many have failed to achieve necessary emissions reductions

An international research team has unveiled the first comprehensive global evaluation of 1,500 climate policy measures f...

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Stop Putting Forks in Your Compost

Even products certified as "compostable" are causing headaches....

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Day temperatures reach all time high for August at 33.7 degrees

Mumbai hit an all-time high temperature of 33.7 degrees Celsius for August on Thursday. The IMD forecasts heavy rains fo...

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Shift in Antarctic decision-making concerns researchers

New research reveals a concerning shift in Antarctic Treaty decision-making in the face of rising environmental and gove...

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Northern Trust launches consultation on proposals to transform general surgery services

The Northern Health and Social Care Trust is launching a public consultation into a proposal to move all emergency surge...

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From clouds to fjords, the Arctic bears witness to climate change

Climate change is particularly intense in the Arctic. To assess its consequences and determine what role this region pla...

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Belize Home Composting Program comes to San Pedro

A new Recycle Organic Program is on the horizon for Belize and for the first time on Ambergris Caye. This initiative aim...

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LYB adquirirá APK AG Recycling Technology

- Amplía la cartera tecnológica de la empresa y el centro circular La adquisición incrementa el negocio de solucio...

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LYB acquiert la technologie de recyclage d'APK AG

L'entreprise élargit son portefeuille de technologies et son hub circulaire L'acquisition augmente l'activité de sol...

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CNN Host Admits That Democrats Are Intentionally Targeting Men Who Are Not 'Testosterone-Laden'

If you pay any attention at all to general cultural discourse, you’ve surely noticed the casual normalization of misan...

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Sunny and cool Thursday, and looking good this weekend

CBS New York's John Elliott has a look at the First Alert Weather forecast....

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Drought-threatened Amazon dolphins studied for climate change impact

MANAUS (Reuters): A team of biologists, vets and fishermen temporarily captured rare freshwater dolphins in the Amazon t...

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Extreme heat-related deaths in Europe expected to surge by 2100, study warns

LONDON (AA): A new study has warned that deaths from extreme heat in Europe are projected to rise sharply in the coming ...

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NDMA identifies 189 glacier lakes for monitoring

The National Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Risk Mitigation Programme was approved by the Centre on July 25; some of the p...

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Banbridge homes evacuated due to security alert

A number of homes have been evacuated in Banbridge as a result of a security alert on Thursday afternoon....

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Tse Chin-wan tours cultivation spots

Secretary for Environment & Ecology Tse Chin-wan today visited the modern and high-tech core demonstration base for agri...

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Clean Energy Terminals Welcomes U.S. Offshore Wind Industry Expert Sloane Perras as Chief Legal Officer

VALENCIA, Calif., Aug. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Clean Energy Terminals ("CET" or the "Company") announced today that U.S...

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Stericycle Recognized by Newsweek as One of America's Greatest Workplaces and Greatest Workplaces for Mental Wellbeing in 2024

BANNOCKBURN, Ill., Aug. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Stericycle, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRCL), a leading provider of regulated medica...

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Will tornadoes and waterspouts thrive as Earth heats up?

Unusually warm waters off the coast of Sicily helped spawn a "waterspout" that sank a superyacht earlier this week, leav...

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We discovered a new way mountains are formed—from 'mantle waves' inside the Earth

In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-l...

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Scarborough's Scalby School 'achieved its most successful results in its history' at this year's GCSE results day

Scalby School in Scarborough is immensely proud of what their students have achieved in their 2024 exam results, despite...

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African governments looking to COP summit for higher climate financing share

By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) - African countries want to use this year's U.N. COP meetings to secure a much bigger...

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Burning Man 2024 weather forecast after disaster storms caused havoc last year

Burning Man revelers likely won't be dealing with the same disaster as 2023, but they should still exercise caution as t...

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Thursday morning First Alert Weather forecast - 8/22/24

Zoe Mintz says following the cooldown, the Bay Area is set to heat up next week.Website: https://kpix.com/YouTube: https...

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How Mike Lynch took on the US Justice Department and HP — and won

Today, divers recovered the body of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch from the wreckage of his family’s superyacht Bayesian...

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San Francisco's Mission Rock Built on Strength of Lower-Carbon Vertua® Concrete

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cemex, a leading global building materials company, announced today that it...

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Why do storms have names? Storm Lilian prompts curiosity as it approaches UK

The Met Office has put out an urgent yellow weather warning for the north of England and parts of southern Scotland, as ...

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Climate change impacts on phytoplankton productivity linked to ocean's twilight zone

How will global warming impact marine ecosystems? This is a critical question when addressing future climate change. Sus...

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George Pindar School in Scarborough is 'very proud' of this year's GCSE results

Students at George Pindar School have celebrated success at all levels and across a wide range of subjects in this summe...

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Animal and human overlap will increase across 57% of the Earth by 2070

Predicting where this overlap will cause problems is part of the solution to avoiding conflict....