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air pollution

People making solar panels

Earth

Energy-related CO2 emissions held steady despite economic growth

The decoupling of energy related carbon dioxide emissions from economic growth for the second year running hints that peak emissions might not be too far away

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Record warming is terrifying but long-term trend is even worse

Earth

Record warming is terrifying but long-term trend is even worse

Analysis

A lot of plastic bottles

Earth

Bacteria found to eat PET plastics could help do the recycling

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Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii

Earth

Highest ever annual rise in carbon dioxide levels recorded

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A wind turbine flying Chinese flag

Life

China unveils vision of greener future in its five-year plan

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Coal power station

Earth

Oregon becomes the first US state to vote to go coal free

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Wind turbines on green hills in China

Earth

China set to surpass its climate targets as renewables soar

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a crowd of people in clearly smoggy dirty air, Beijing

Earth

Carbon emission cuts could save 300,000 US lives by 2030

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photo troves

Technology

Our photo uploads give scientists billions of eyes on the world

A picture's worth a thousand words, and in 2015 we put a few trillion online. Tapping this data can tell us about everything from air pollution to city design

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Health

People today are still dying early from high 1970s air pollution

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Health

This is what life is like in the smoggiest place on Earth

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Life

How to find ET: 7 ways aliens might give themselves away

Features

Earth

Marks of the Anthropocene: 7 signs we have made our own epoch

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