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Port Cities at Risk of Climate Change-Induced Coastal Flooding
According to a new report ranking the world's cities in the order of which will be most vulnerable to coastal flooding by 2070, all but one of the 10 were found to be in developing countries in Asia. The combined effects of
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Cyclone Sidr on Collision Course with Bangladesh and Kolkata
A disaster of epic proportions is shaping up in the Bay of Bengal-but you wouldn't know it from following most mainstream news outlets. Tropical Cyclone Sidr, which has been rated a Category 4 storm (verging on Category 5, by some estimates), is headed
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Small Island Nations "Can Only Do So Much" To Impede Climate Change
As the leaders of the attendant developing and small island nations took their turns at the podium on Monday's United Nations high-level event on climate change, their anger—and desperation—was palpable. And it wasn't because they were only given five
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This Month in Fast Company: Adam Werbach Sells Out
At least that is what his former friends and clients say. "To this day, they won't speak to me," says Adam Werbach, former wunderkind head of the Sierra Club at 25, who complained in 2004 that "If they [environmental groups] don't have a plan to activate
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We've All Been Eating Mutant Rice!
But, don't worry: it's perfectly safe. Yes, according to a team of researchers at Cornell University, close to 97.9% of all white rice is derived from a mutation in a gene originating in the Japonica subspecies which occurred about 10,000 years ago.
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Heavy Rain Kills in UK, Pakistan and Bangladesh
The UK has seen an incredible amount of rain, in a very short time. One sixth of the average annual rainfall in 24 hours - the tragic results are obvious; massive flooding, huge property damage and several deaths. In other parts of the world there is
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Floods, Monsoons, Heat Waves, Drought: Climate Change In Asia Now
In Asia, it's already a killer summer, even if the season hasn't started yet. A week after China released its action plan on climate change (sans emissions caps), 76 people have died over a six-day
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'Nanorust' Removes Arsenic From Polluted Water
Researchers at Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) in Houston, Texas, have found a new method to remove arsenic from contaminated water - who millions of people have to drink in India, Bangladesh and other
