World / Science & Health
Average world temperatures are on track to far exceed the central goal set in the 2015 Paris agreement on limiting global warming, a study showed on Tuesday. But the overshoot by ...
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World / Science & Health Nov 30, 2018
Thousands of schoolchildren across Australia skipped classes to attend rallies demanding the government act on climate change. But Resources Minister Matt Canavan said the students should be in school learning about science and mining, rather than discovering how to get on welfare. The coordinated rallies Friday ...
World / Science & Health Nov 29, 2018
Pressure mounts to bury carbon emissions, but who is going to pay the costs?
by Barbara Lewis and Nina Chestney
When countries gather Sunday to hammer out how they will enact pledges to cut carbon emissions, a Norwegian-led oil consortium will offer a solution: pump some of your excess carbon dioxide to us and we could store it for you. Environmentalists worry the costly technology, ...
World / Science & Health Nov 29, 2018
Scientists warn global warming will increase heat-related deaths and disease around the world
Climate change is making more people around the world vulnerable to heat exposure, putting them at greater risk of heart and kidney disease, heat stress and other heat-related killers, scientists warned Wednesday. Global warming's effects look most serious for aging and urban populations and people ...
Environment Nov 18, 2018
India's first elephant hospital cheers animal activists, draws tourists
At India's first hospital for elephants, opened last week in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, 49-year-old Asha placed her left foreleg on a stool for a doctor to attend to an injury while visitors filmed it all on their mobile phones. The facility, armed ...
Environment Nov 16, 2018
After severe drought, invasive trees around Cape Town to be target of eradication campaign
Big business is backing a South African fund to eradicate invasive trees around Cape Town and yield billions of liters of water as the city emerges from its worst drought in a century, officials said Friday. Alien species, such as eucalyptus, which are largely native ...
Environment Nov 16, 2018
A luxury hotel opening outside Shanghai is offering guests with deep pockets the chance of a very deep sleep. The 18-story Intercontinental Shanghai Wonderland Hotel has been built into the side of a huge hole in the ground left by a former pit mine. Sixteen ...
World / Science & Health Nov 14, 2018
Every breath you take: Indian capital's smog leaves children gasping for air
by Malini Menon
Deepa Tampi worries a lot about the air her two children breathe. The garment exporter says she believes her 14-year-old daughter Mahika and 12-year-old son Vihaan both became asthmatic because of high levels of pollution in the New Delhi area. She has banned them from ...
Environment Nov 10, 2018
The death toll from flash floods in Jordan rose to 12 on Saturday and the kingdom's main tourist attraction, the ancient city of Petra, was closed for a cleanup after what local officials said was the biggest deluge in the area in decades. Friday's floods ...
World / Science & Health Nov 6, 2018
Wind farms now act as a top "predator" in some ecosystems, harming birds at the top of the food chain and triggering a knock-on effect often overlooked by green energy advocates, scientists said Monday. Wind is the fastest-growing renewable energy sector, supplying around 4 percent ...
World / Science & Health Oct 29, 2018
Air pollution kills 600,000 children each year, WHO report warns
Exposure to toxic air both indoors and out kills some 600,000 children under the age of 15 each year, the World Health Organization warned Monday. Data from the U.N. health body shows that every day, 93 percent of children under the age of 15 — ...
Environment | OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK Oct 28, 2018
All hail Caesar's wild mushrooms
by C.W. Nicol
Many people make that distinction between "good" mushrooms and "bad" toadstools, though there's no scientific difference between the two — and there are some branded as "toadstools" that are, in fact, delicious.