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Feb 27

Column: How Mardi Gras beads get to the French Quarter

By David Redmon for The Conversation

A U.K. criminologist tells the dark story behind the production and use of Mardi Gras beads.

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Feb 20

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Fighting to breathe in the world’s most polluted city

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Delhi now outranks Beijing as the world's most polluted city. Carbon dioxide, ozone and fine carbon particles get trapped over India's capital, mostly due to dirty fuels, causing long-term health consequences such as lung and heart disease. Special correspondent Fred…

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Dec 08

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News Wrap: House passes government funding bill

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In our news wrap Thursday, the House approved a bill to fund the government through April. It includes disaster relief for Louisiana and aid for the contaminated water system in Flint, Michigan. Despite its passage, members of both parties complained…

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Nov 30

Column: Our planet will suffer if Trump shutters NASA Earth science

By David Biello

The end of ice on Earth is merely one thing we won’t be able to monitor if NASA stops using satellites to look at our home, author David Biello writes…

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Nov 28

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Why cleaning up abandoned coal mines is so important — and difficult

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With coal production at its lowest level in 30 years, abandoned mines around the country are causing major environmental problems. They can catch fire, and debris from them can contaminate the water supply. But mine cleanup is an effort difficult…

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Nov 05

Photos: Delhi’s air pollution closes hundreds of schools, renews alarms

By Kamala Kelkar

Delhi closed more than 1,700 schools on Friday and Saturday because air pollution there is too dangerous for children’s lungs.

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Nov 04

Column: Koch brothers are the latest strange bedfellows in Washington state carbon tax fight

By Yoram Bauman

The twists and turns just keep coming in the pioneering revenue-neutral carbon tax measure, Initiative 732, which will be on Tuesday’s ballot in Washington state, writes Yoram Bauman.

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Oct 28

Ozone layer over Asia threatened by weird pumping effect in atmosphere

By Jane Qiu, Scientific American

A weird phenomenon is happening high above the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas that could prove to be an atmospheric nightmare for the ozone layer.

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Oct 20

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Pay for carbon pollution? Why some environmentalists don’t support this state tax

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Sep 23

Air pollution takes its toll on productivity even for those with desk jobs

By Making Sen$e Editor

Even in a job where employees' only physical exertion involves answering the phone, air pollution takes its toll on productivity.

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