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Toilets Confront Climate Change
Posted: January 5, 2016Two-and-a-half billion people worldwide have no access to safe, durable sanitation systems. Brian Arbogast, director of the water, sanitation and hygiene programme at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, tells SciDev.Net how innovative toilet technologies…
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County of origin labeling on our meat no longer required
Posted: January 5, 2016It's now harder to find out where your beef or pork was born, raised and slaughtered.After more than a decade of wrangling, Congress repealed a labeling law last month that…
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US Files Complaint Against Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche for Alleged Clean Air Act Violations – not the kind of German engineering the VW Group wants to be known for
Posted: January 4, 2016The U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, today filed a civil complaint in federal court in Detroit, Michigan against Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Volkswagen…
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Will Styrofoam Get the Plastic Bag Treatment?
Posted: January 4, 2016Say farewell to Styrofoam take-out containers in the nation’s capital. It’s been a few years in the making, but Washington, D.C. has finally enacted a firm ban on polystyrene food and…
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Solar gaining on coal in India
Posted: January 4, 2016A KPMG study shows that the cost of solar power in India, revealed by public auctions, is barely half a cent above that of cheap local coal , writes Chris…
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The Mississippi flooding sets records
Posted: January 3, 2016Record flooding along some tributaries after torrential post-Christmas weekend rain has sent the Mississippi River to levels not seen since the Great Flood of 1993, and that excess water will continue…
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Is the Pope right on climate change?
Posted: January 2, 2016Last June, Pope Francis released his much-anticipated encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, which received tremendous praise from diverse quarters. The same day, Coral Davenport, writing in the New York…
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Good news about restoring river ecosystems
Posted: January 1, 2016t is a commonly held belief that most ecosystems take about a lifetime to recover after damage is introduced by humans. However, researchers at Ohio State University are finding that initial recovery…
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2015 Year in Review
Posted: December 31, 2015As 2015 comes to a close, Mongabay is looking back at the year that was. This year saw President Obama reject the Keystone pipeline as historic droughts and a vicious wildfire…
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Los Angeles area natural gas leak continues
Posted: December 31, 2015Though it seems to be oddly absent from the mainstream media headlines, a massive methane gas leak in Southern California’s Aliso Canyon has prompted thousands of evacuations and, since Oct. 23, has…
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