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Do Well in School, Get a Solar Panel, Pakistani Students Told

$46 million is going to give students who do well their own solar power.




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Quote of the Day: Timothy Egan on A Mudslide, Foretold

It appears that this act of God had a little help from man, and was an accident waiting to happen.




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Paleontologists discover lost ecosystem off the coast of southern California

The ecosystem had thrived for thousands of years but collapsed less than two centuries ago.




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The awful reality of e-waste as told in numbers

From 50 million tons of e-waste generated annually to 350,000 cell phones thrown away every day, the numbers behind our digital addiction are staggering.




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Google Street View Lets You See the Sights of Midway Atoll

The remote atoll which is home to endangered species and historic landmarks can now be explored from your computer.




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Most Huggable: Football Mangroves in Florida, Bristol's Renewable Street Lights, Frank Capra's "Truth"

To carbon neutralize the Super Bowl, the NFL plants mangroves in Florida




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Transition City Bristol: Tackling Climate change and Peak Oil with Community Planning

The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further. For the first time, it is being tried on a city-wide scale,




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Battery Electric Vehicles of Bristol

Bristol, UK, just keeps on popping up on Treehugger. Most recently we talked about the potentially ground breaking Transition City Bristol initiative, a community lead process to plan for peak oil, but as we noted then, it doesn’t end there. It’s also




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Transition City Bristol's Big Event: "Unleashing the Collective Genius of the Community"

Hailed by Rob Hopkins as "possibly the biggest peak oil/climate change/Transition event to take place in the UK", Bristol's Big Event looks set to be a huge collective exploration of the future for this city of 400,000 residents as fossil fuels




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Transition City Bristol's Big Event: Program Now Finalized

Just a reminder to our UK-based readers that Transition City Bristol's Big Event, which we posted on last week, is coming up on Sunday. Billed by Rob Hopkins, originator of the Transition Towns concept, as "Possibly the biggest Peak Oil/Climate




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Bristol Prints Own Money, Including Banksy-notes and Eco Themes, to Spur Local Buying

The British city of Bristol hopes to promote local business with their own high-security scrip featuring local designs




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Bristol, England, aims for carbon neutrality by 2030

"It's an emergency," say council members. "So let's act like it."




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Another Problem with Carbon Credits: They Get Stolen

At least $40 million worth of carbon credits have been stolen in recent weeks from various registries across Europe, in what some are calling a growing black market for carbon credits.The Wall Street Journal explains that there are




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Transition City Bristol to Plant a Virtual Orchard

We’ve reported on Transition City Bristol before, one of the first city-wide Transition Town initiatives [Disclaimer: This author has good friends involved in the project, but we’d be writing about it even if we didn’t]. It looks like things are




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Barns are being lost and stolen in search of "rustic chic" interior design

A lot of our history is being lost so that people can get that popular look.




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Someone should have told that rock that, in Alberta, safety is a shared responsibility

Cars kept running into a big rock in a Calgary parking lot, perhaps because it didn't make eye contact.




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The reusable water bottle that stole my heart

My search for the perfect water bottle is over thanks to the beautiful, drinker-friendly, ocean-loving, coral-planting NAECO Bottle.




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Researchers Develop Chlorine-Tolerant Membrane for Easy Desalination

Record droughts, falling water tables and the rapid depletion of aquifers have helped make desalination, a process once considered impractical and too expensive, a viable technology -- at least in some places. As such, there has been a rash of stories --




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Once again we're told to avoid romaine lettuce, due to E.coli

The CDC's latest recall is yet another reminder of how broken the food production system is.




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Action-Flick Filming Takes Toll on Bulgarian Bat Cave

The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say.




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British shoppers told to buy white eggs, not brown

The idea is that it will reduce animal suffering, but it's more complicated than that.




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Ziploc® Brand Helps Bring a Chaos-Free Holiday to Travelers across the Country - Ziploc® Brand Holiday Tollbooth Video (Extended)

Bad traffic, tired drivers and cranky kids; life makes holiday travel anything but a holiday. Watch what happens when Ziploc® takes over a tollbooth and surprises real holiday travelers with gifts.









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Russia's Victory Day celebrations pared back; Spain's daily coronavirus death tolls falls

Russia marks the 75th anniversary of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Saturday, but the coronavirus outbreak means that celebrations have been pared back massively.




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Hacked? Identity stolen? Here's what to do next

CNBC's Kelli Grant outlines how you can keep your identity safe from theft or fraud and what you can do should your private information become compromised.




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Coronavirus: CEO behind Buffett, Bezos health venture says US 'death toll curve' worse than China

"Our death toll curve is now worse than when China was at the same stage," Haven CEO Dr. Atul Gawande tells CNBC.




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Tyson Foods shares fall 8% as production disruptions take a toll on profits, company secures $1.5 billion loan facility

Tyson Foods on Monday reported that its fiscal second-quarter net income fell 15% from a year earlier, as production disruptions weighed on its results.




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Live Nation president Joe Berchtold on outlook amid the pandemic

Joe Berchtold, president of Live Nation, joins "Squawk Alley" to discuss the company's outlook amid the coronavirus shutdown.




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Heat and Humidity Are Already Reaching the Limits of Human Tolerance

Events with extreme temperatures and humidity are occurring twice as often now as they were 40 years ago

-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com




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France records 178 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours as total toll from virus nears 26,000

France on Thursday recorded 178 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours, a 0.7 percent rise from the previous day in the lowest rate of increase in four days, taking the total number of deaths to 25,987. 




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Covid-19: Daily death toll up in France as hospitalisations continue to fall

The number of people who have died from coronavirus infection in France rose 243 to 26,230 on Friday, a higher daily death toll than the previous day when it stood at 178.




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i stole your lunch

Today on Toothpaste For Dinner: i stole your lunch


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From chickpeas to savoury porridge: Yotam Ottolenghi's thrifty recipes

A weekday lunch of braised chickpeas, a savoury brunch porridge and a grown-up take on rice pudding

The world has seen more than its fair share of closed doors lately – shops, restaurants, the barber, your neighbours’ – but that has, in turn, led to the opening of some others.

And if there is one door that has swung wide open in recent weeks, it’s the one that leads into the kitchen. From the keenest of cooks to the humblest of beginners, the kitchen has provided us all with the one thing we’ve been missing the most: freedom.

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Global report: Trump says Covid-19 will 'go away without vaccine', expects US death toll to top 95,000

Mike Pence’s press secretary tests positive to coronavirus; China reports one new case; Russia reports 10,000 new cases for sixth day in a row

Donald Trump has said coronavirus will “go away without a vaccine” and is expecting 95,000 or more deaths in the US, as Mike Pence’s press secretary tested positive for coronavirus.

The president’s comments, at an event with Republican lawmakers, capped a horror week in the US, in which it was revealed unemployment had risen to 14.7%, up from 3.5% in February, with 20 million people losing their jobs in April.

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Research volunteers won't be told of their coronavirus genetic risk

Half a million people taking part in the UK Biobank, which gathers genetic information for researchers to study, won't be told if they turn out to be genetically vulnerable to the coronavirus




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Heat, humidity at edge of human tolerance hitting globe

Researchers found that temperature extremes previously thought to be rare have been recorded more than 1,000 times in 40 years.





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Google employees are told to expect to work from home for the rest of the year, but a select few will be allowed to return to offices as soon as June

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has told employees to expect to work from home for the remainder of 2020, but will open offices for certain exceptions.





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Ex-husband of Biden accuser Tara Reade said she told him of being sexual harassed: report

Biden has repeatedly denied Reade's allegation.





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Coronavirus: UK death toll passes Italy to be highest in Europe

The figure of 29,427 deaths is "a massive tragedy", the foreign secretary says, but steers clear of comparisons.




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The FBI said I was my parents' stolen baby - but I found the truth

Foundling Paul Fronczak was given to a family whose baby had been stolen - but was he really their son?




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Mumbai Police recover 29 stolen two-wheelers, two arrested

With the arrest of two persons, the Mumbai police have recovered 29 two-wheelers stolen from Mumbai and Navi Mumbai in the last three years, a senior official said Friday.

One Harshad Kohli had lodged a complaint with Yellow Gate police station that his scooter was stolen from Bhaucha Dhakka ferry wharf in Mazgaon area here some days ago.

Acting on a tip-off, police laid a trap and arrested Meraj Sheikh (19) Sunday from the Yellow Gate area. His interrogation led to the arrest of his accomplice Mushtaq Mansuri (19) from Belapur in neighbouring Navi Mumbai.

The duo revealed that they had stolen several two-wheelers from Mumbai and Navi Mumbai in the last three years, the official said. Police recovered 29 stolen two-wheelers from their possession and further probe was on, the official said.

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