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IKEA store in Portland, Oregon Ikea is guiding its customers toward sustainable consumption. Here’s how
Close to 860 million people visited Ikea stores last year, helping it generate more than $50 billion in sales. The world’s largest furniture retailer is using that expo... (photo: Creative Commons / MB298) GreenBiz
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Air pollution CO2 emissions from city building in the early morning light produced by private heating and apartments The great corporate decarbonization derby is on
To tackle big risks requires big imagination and big bucks. And, except for annihilation from global thermonuclear warfare, no set of risks loom larger than the continuin... (photo: European Community / Mauro Bottaro) GreenBiz
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Residents evacuate from a neighborhood flooded by heavy rains, in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Saturday, May 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Macedo) Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding kills at least 78
Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's largest ever climate catastrophe, with a... (photo: AP / Carlos Macedo) Phys Dot Org
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Public minibus are submerged in the flooded streets of Dar salaam, Tanzania Thursday, April 25, 2024. Flooding in Tanzania caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others, the prime minister said Thursday. Kenya, Tanzania brace for Cyclone Hidaya as flood death toll rises
Kenya and Tanzania have been bracing for a cyclone on the heels of torrential rains and floods that have devastated East Africa, killing nearly 400 people and forcing ten... (photo: AP) Al Jazeera
Climate Change   Cyclone Hidaya   Extreme Weather   Photos   Wikipedia: 202324 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season  
Dust storm in Dubai (Al Kazim Towers in the background) Climate is one culprit in growth and spread of dust in Middle East
Climate change is transforming dust storms—a natural phenomenon in the Middle East—into a more frequent and widespread threat to health and economies throughout the r... (photo: GFDL / Nepenthes) Phys Dot Org
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 A Russian oil tanker seen in the Strait of Kerch, Russia, Monday, Nov. 12, 2007. cg1 Russian oil tanker leaks pose billion-pound threat to English coast
A “ghost fleet” of unseaworthy Russian oil tankers travelling through the Strait of Dover risks inflicting billions of pounds of environmental damage on the English c... (photo: AP / Emergency Situations Ministry) The Times/The Sunday Times
English coast   Photos   Russian oil tankers   Wikipedia: Oil tanker   uk  
The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also known as the common chimpanzee, robust chimpanzee, or simply chimp Chimps are dying of human sniffles. Is great ape tourism to blame?
There was something wrong with the chimpanzees. For weeks, a community of 205 animals in Uganda’s Kibale national park had been coughing, sneezing and looking generally... (photo: Creative Commons / Naveenkumar9494) AOL
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The wolf, also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America, April 19, 2016. US Republicans vote to remove wolf protections
The Republican-majority US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would remove endangered species protections for the gray wolf across much of the country... (photo: Creative Commons / Pixabay/Andrea Bohl) Phys Dot Org
Endangered Species   Environment   Photos   US States  
A passenger looks on as a China Eastern flight taxi on the runway of Baiyun Airport on Friday, March 25, 2022, in southern China's Guangzhou province. Big data reveals true climate impact of worldwide air travel
For the first time ever, researchers have harnessed the power of big data to calculate the per-country greenhouse gas emissions from aviation for 197 countries covered by... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan) Phys Dot Org
Climate change   Environment   Photos   Travel  
Narcissus minor, in a wild zone in Belgium. Height of the plant: a few centimeters, 14 March 2014. How the plant world shapes the climate cycle
In order to understand the Earth's resilience, researchers at ETH Zurich are modeling climate changes from times long past. And they show that plants are not simply victi... (photo: Creative Commons / Jamain/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jamain) Phys Dot Org
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Photo of growing flowers, to illustrate Earth Day marked every year on 22 April to demonstrate support for environmental protection Humans Are Changing Earth Deep Below Us As Well As At The Surface
The changes that our species is making to the planet are deeper than initially thought. Not only are the impacts of human activity changing the surface and climate of the... (photo: European Community / Lukasz Kobus) IFL Science
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Plastic bag Talks advance on a treaty to end plastic pollution
OTTAWA, Ontario — Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution as their fourth round of talks finished early Tuesday in Canada. | For the first time in th... (photo: Creative Commons) Newsday
Climate change   Environment   Photos   Pollution