How did a billionaire win over coal miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia to become president? Three words: "Trump digs coal". By linking deindustrialisation and the decline of working communities in America's "rust belt" ...
Environment
Oct 09, 2019
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Scientists from the University of Bristol have found a more effective way to predict seismic activity at hydraulic fracturing sites, ensuring that potential earthquake activity remains within safe levels.
Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2019
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The Powering Past Coal Alliance, or PPCA, is a coalition of 30 countries and 22 cities and states, that aims to phase out unabated coal power. But analysis led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, published in Nature ...
Environment
Jul 01, 2019
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The Coalition has been re-elected to government, and after six years in office it has not created any effective policies for reducing greenhouse emissions. Does that mean the Australian climate change debate is stuck in 2013? ...
Environment
Jun 13, 2019
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While methane pollution caused by natural gas production in Pennsylvania is underestimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, natural gas still has half the carbon footprint of underground coal mining, according ...
Environment
May 23, 2019
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A trio of researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the University of the Witwatersrand and Geosyntec has published a Perspectives piece in the journal Science. Carlos Santamarina, Luis Torres-Cruz ...
Humans are causing the Earth's sixth mass extinction event, with an estimated one million species at risk of extinction.
Ecology
May 10, 2019
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US industrial products manufacturer 3M announced Thursday it will cut 2,000 jobs worldwide, citing weakness in key markets that led to a drop in first-quarter sales.
Business
Apr 25, 2019
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A Siberian coal mining town has gotten a blanket of black snow, a regular occurrence in the region known for high industrial pollution levels.
Environment
Feb 18, 2019
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China, already the world's leading emitter of human-caused greenhouse gases, continues to pump increasing amounts of climate-changing methane into the atmosphere despite tough new regulations on gas releases from its coal ...
Environment
Jan 29, 2019
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