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More bad news for VW: CO2, gas engines involved
Posted: November 4, 2015Germany's Volkswagen said Tuesday (3 November) an internal probe had found that 800,000 more vehicles showed "inconsistencies" on carbon dioxide emissions, including the first petrol engines.Among the engines affected are…
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West Antarctica snow accumulation increased in the 20th century
Posted: November 4, 2015Annual snow accumulation on West Antarctica’s coastal ice sheet increased dramatically during the 20th century, according to a new study published today (Wednesday 4 November) in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research…
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Nuclear waste site near St Louis threatened by landfill fire
Posted: November 3, 2015Imagine you are a parent, and that out of the blue, you get a letter from your child's school telling you not to worry — that they're ready to evacuate…
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Volkswagen's “premium” brands cheated too
Posted: November 3, 2015The Volkswagen emissions-cheating scandal widened Monday (2 November) as US regulators said the German automaker also included illegal "defeat devices" on its larger 3.0 liter diesel engines over the past…
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Southern Ocean ecosystems acidifying
Posted: November 3, 2015As a result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, the chemistry of the Southern Ocean is expected to change so fast over the next few decades that tiny creatures at…
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Should government buildings offer free Electric Vehicle charging?
Posted: November 2, 2015As governments around the world continue to push the concept of electric vehicles there are growing calls for all government buildings to offer free EV charging. This would certainly kickstart…
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Global warming continuing
Posted: November 1, 2015Earth has just had the hottest January-September on record, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said today, adding that the average air and sea temperatures in September logged the…
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Yellowstone Grizzly Bear population studied by USGS
Posted: October 31, 2015Genetic data show the grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has grown since the 1980s with no loss in genetic diversity, according to a report by the Interagency…
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Some Ice Sheets in Greenland slowing their movement
Posted: October 30, 2015In the face of decades of increasing temperatures and surface melting, the movement of the southwest portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet that terminates on land has been slowing down,…
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The northern snakehead fish
Posted: October 30, 2015The invasive northern snakehead fish found in the mid-Atlantic area is now cause for more concern, potentially bringing diseases into the region that may spread to native fish and wildlife,…
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