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One year after the city launched its congestion pricing policy, fine particulate pollution inside Manhattan’s congestion relief zone was 13 percent lower, according to a new analysis.
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This is a remarkable article and does a great job of explaining what El Nino itself is, rather than the…
The day has arrived we are taxed on the air we breathe what bit we don’t breathe gets burried
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- them from identifying the precise source.The volume of collapsed material remained unknown, but Huggel estimated that it could run into several tens of millions of cubic metres, based on changes visible in satellite imagery and […]
- People in Upper Midwest states might pay less, but households in Southern and Gulf Coast states might end up paying more, said Alexis Abramson, dean of the Columbia Climate School. The weather pattern may produce […]
- What is a super el niño? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice sit down with climate scientist Adam Sobel to break down what to expect from this El Niño and what makes this one historically […]
There is only ONE experiment that can show that CO2 is responsible for planetary warming. Let’s go get a planet…