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2015 Antarctic Ozone Hole larger and formed later than previous holes
Posted: October 30, 2015The 2015 Antarctic ozone hole area was larger and formed later than in recent years, said scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Assessing the health and economic consequences of Dieselgate
Posted: October 29, 2015Volkswagen’s use of software to evade emissions standards in more than 482,000 diesel vehicles sold in the U.S. will directly contribute to 60 premature deaths across the country, a new…
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Historic Nitrate Levels Still Plague U.S. Rivers
Posted: October 29, 2015During 1945 to 1980, nitrate levels in large U.S. rivers increased up to fivefold in intensively managed agricultural areas of the Midwest, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study….
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VW Dieselgate and EV priorities in Europe
Posted: October 28, 2015The pollution-cheating scandal that has engulfed auto giant Volkswagen is turning up the heat on the German government to make more determined headway in its self-declared "electromobility" goals, analysts say.The "bitter…
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Dancing makes you feel good and help bond with others
Posted: October 28, 2015Dancing in time with others raises your pain threshold, Oxford University researchers have found.A team from the University's Experimental Psychology and Anthropology Departments wanted to see whether our feelings of…
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Black Holes and their flares studied by NASA missions
Posted: October 28, 2015The baffling and strange behaviors of black holes have become somewhat less mysterious recently, with new observations from NASA's Explorer missions Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR….
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New report addresses how we can slow climate change
Posted: October 27, 2015Top environmental researchers from UCLA joined a team of 50 University of California experts in issuing a new report today with solutions to stabilize Earth’s climate this century. The report, Bending…
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Why are diesel cars so popular in Europe?
Posted: October 27, 2015An estimated annual 'tax gap' subsidy of some €16 billion for diesel over petrol has made Europe the world's largest market for diesel cars – but the Volkswagen scandal has put the national…
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Declines in marine, large animals disrupt Earth's nutrient cycle
Posted: October 27, 2015A new study reveals that in the past large land animals, whales, seabirds and fish played a vital role in recycling nutrients from the ocean depths, spreading them far and…
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Oceans need more protected areas
Posted: October 26, 2015Despite global efforts to increase the area of the ocean that is protected, only four per cent of it lies within marine protected areas (MPAs), according to a University of…
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