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Doomsday Clock Holds Steady at 5 Minutes to Midnight
Last year the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its famous “Doomsday Clock” — which measures the likelihood of...
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DARPA Considers Deploying Technology on Ocean Floor
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is investigating ways to store technology, including drones, on the ocean floor...
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7 of the 10 Most Air-Polluted Cities Are in China
Air pollution in China is at an all-time high. The Asian Development Bank together with Tsinghua University recently released...
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Black Carbon the Second-Biggest Human Cause of Global Warming
Soot ranks as the second-largest human contributor to climate change, according to a new analysis, exerting twice as much...
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2012 Among the 10 Hottest Years on Record Globally
The average global temperature in 2012 was among the 10 hottest since official record keeping began in 1880, with...
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Beijing’s Pollution, Seen From Space in Before and After Photos
The stifling pollution in Beijing is being called “airpocalypse” by some. According to an air monitoring station located at...
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What Should We Be Worried About?
We worry because we are built to anticipate the future. Nothing can stop us from worrying, but science can...
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An Alarm in the Offing on Climate Change
The natural conservatism of science has often led climatologists to be cautious in their pronouncements about global warming. Indeed,...
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Greens to President Obama: Act Now on Climate
Green groups are amping up the pressure on President Barack Obama to make good on his promises to address...
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Pollution Highlights the Price China Is Paying for Rapid Development
Beijing has developed into an impressive modern city over the past two decades. But a tourist visiting the Chinese...