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Victorian skiing holidays melted Alpine glaciers

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Victorian skiing holidays melted Alpine glaciers

Soot particles from increased rail transport and the booming tourist industry caused an extra metre of ice to melt each year in the mid-19th century

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Health myths: Our bodies can and should be 'detoxed'

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Health myths: Our bodies can and should be 'detoxed'

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Toxic sludge from polluted rivers turned into art

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Toxic sludge from polluted rivers turned into art

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Air pollution kills over 2 million people each year

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Plastisphere microbes go to sea on flotsam fragments

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Plastisphere microbes go to sea on flotsam fragments

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Want fewer hurricanes? Pollute the air

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Want fewer hurricanes? Pollute the air

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Inside Fukushima: Draining a radioactive flood

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Inside Fukushima: Draining a radioactive flood

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China aims to slash its air pollution by 2017

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China aims to slash its air pollution by 2017

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Farmed fish overtakes farmed beef for first time

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Farmed fish overtakes farmed beef for first time

For the first time in modern history, the world has been producing more farmed fish than farmed beef. It's not good news for the environment

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Mongolia shows the birthing pains of a green economy

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Cheap infrared camera lets you be an environmental spy

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Act now to avert a global water crisis

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Bringing major corporations to book for their crimes

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