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pollution

A wind turbine flying Chinese flag

Life

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

New five-year plan will see China make a move away from coal-hungry heavy industry and towards a greener, sleeker modern economy

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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

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smoky buses london

Health

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

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

Health

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

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

Life

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

Features

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

Earth

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

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Paris deal could help narrow the US political divide on climate

Earth

Paris deal could help narrow the US political divide on climate

US Republicans are likely to cooperate on funding clean energy research, so long as carbon capture and nuclear are in the mix, says Matthew Nisbet

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Earth

What is the Paris climate agreement?

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Earth

2015 to see the first drop in fossil fuel emissions as GDP grows

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Earth

UK scraps carbon-storage plans, making green targets unreachable

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Earth

Critical Paris climate summit kicks off – but can it deliver?

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