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Delhi Offers Diwali Laser Shows To Stop Residents From Burning Crackers

Delhi authorities are offering residents laser light shows to mark the Hindu festival of Diwali this weekend and wean them…

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Pollution Levels In India’s Capital Hit The Worst This Year

Pollution levels in India’s capital New Delhi have hit their worst for the second time in October — earning a…

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Global Renewable Power Capacity To Rise By 50% In Five Years: IEA

Global renewable energy capacity is set to rise by 50% in five years’ time, driven by solar photovoltaic (PV) installations…

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Trading Tires: How The West Fuels A Waste Crisis In Asia

When night falls in the Indian village of Nabipur, the backyard furnaces come to life, burning waste tires from the…

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Fields Of Fire Drive Delhi’s Air Quality To Unhealthy Levels

When it comes to air quality, there are few worse places to live on the planet than New Delhi, and…

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Delhi’s Air Quality ‘Very Poor’ Again, Likely To Decline Sharply Over Weekend

The national capital's air quality slipped into the "very poor" category on Friday morning, and was expected to decline sharply…

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Deforestation In Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest Surges Through September

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped for the fifth straight month in September compared with last year, with destruction up 93%…

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Section 144 Imposed In Aarey Colony Following Protests Over Tree Cutting

Police imposed section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code in Aarey Colony and surrounding areas on October 5 , banning…

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‘Go Explain To Developing Countries’: Putin Criticises Greta Thunberg’s U.N. Speech

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday took aim at teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, telling an energy forum he did…

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India Shelves Plan On Countrywide Ban On Single-Use Plastic Products

India has held off imposing a blanket ban on single-use plastics to combat pollution, officials said on Tuesday, a measure…

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Disaster Under The Waves: The Race To Save The Coral Of The Caribbean

Emily Hower, a research assistant at Nova Southeastern University doing field work on coral off Key West in Florida, bobs…

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‘You Have Stolen My Dreams,’ An Angry Thunberg Tells U.N. Climate Summit

Teenage activist Greta Thunberg angrily denounced world leaders on Monday for failing to tackle climate change, unleashing the outrage felt…

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Inspired By Greta Thunberg, Worldwide Protest Demands Climate Action

Millions of young people flooded the streets of cities around the world on Friday to demand political leaders take urgent…

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Millions Of Young People, Led By Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, To Strike For Climate Action

With world leaders about to gather in New York for a UN Climate Action Summit next week, millions of young…

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Hundreds Killed In Brazil’s Amazon Over Land, Resources In Past Decade: HRW Report

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on Tuesday found that more than 300 people have been killed over the past…

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Climate Protesters Tell Carmakers ‘The Party Is Over’

Thousands of protesters marched in front of Frankfurt’s IAA car show on Saturday to demand a swift end to combustion…

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Teenage Activist Greta Thunberg Takes Climate Protest To Trump

Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who shot to global fame for inspiring worldwide student strikes to promote action against climate change,…

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Alaska Seal Die-Off Spurs Government Investigation

US government biologists are investigating the deaths of nearly 300 Arctic ice seals found on Alaska beaches since last summer,…

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Japan May Have To Dump Radioactive Water Into The Sea, Minister Says

Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific…

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Investing In Climate Adaptation Can Spur Trillions In Benefits: Report

Investing $1.8 trillion between 2020 and 2030 in projects to help communities adapt to the worsening impacts of climate change…

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India To Raise Target For Restoring Degraded Land: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced that India would raise its target for restoring degraded land from 21 million…

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Hurricane Dorian Floods Island As It Swipes North Carolina Then Heads North

Hurricane Dorian briefly made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday, hitting the beach-fringed barrier islands with…

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Bahamas Reels From Dorian’s Devastation, Storm Surge Threatens US Southeast

Survivors of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas thronged rescue helicopters on Wednesday and the United Nations said 70,000 people needed…

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After Leaving Parts Of Bahamas In Ruins, Hurricane Dorian Now Heads For Florida

Hurricane Dorian smashed parts of the tourism-dependent Bahamas to ruins, leaving relief officials scrambling to battle an unfolding humanitarian crisis…

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Amazon India To Weed Out Single-Use Plastic Packaging By June 2020

Amazon.com Inc’s India unit said on Wednesday that it would replace all single-use plastic in its packaging by June 2020…

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