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It proposes rapidly building out electric vehicleinfrastructure and mandating that all buses and new light- and medium-dutyvehicles produce zero emissions within a decade
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Cyclone Fani tore through India's eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and wind gusting up to 205 kilometers (127 miles) per hour and affecting weather as far away as Mount Everest.
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The House of Representatives has passed a bill designed to force the US to stay in the Paris climate deal, in a rebuke to Donald Trump who has promised to withdraw from the landmark agreement. But the Democratic bill, which passed 231-190 in a vote l...
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Germany is considering whether to impose a tax on carbon pollution or push to expand the existing European market in an effort to speed up the pace of reducing greenhouse gases. Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for putting a price on the emission...
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Jim Watson/AFP/GettySpaceX’s latest mission launched during the wee hours of Friday, when a Falcon 9 rocket blasted into the sky and delivered 5,500 pounds of new supplies and experiments to the International Space Station.Onboard: living tissue bein...
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The horses that galloped the earth just a thousand years ago probably looked very different from their modern descendants, researchers said Thursday after compiling the most complete genetic history of any non-human species. "The horse has had a pro...
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People with HIV who are undergoing effective treatment cannot pass on the virus through sex, scientists have said, claiming the end of the pandemic could be in sight. Researchers tested 1,000 gay male couples - one HIV positive and taking antiretrov...
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“The general trend all over the world is areas that are dry become more dry and areas that are wet become more wet,” Rynning-Tonnesen, chief executive officer of the renewable electricity generator Statkraft AS, said in an interview in New York on Th...
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A woman with endometriosis described explains her wishes for treatment while awaiting a cure.
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Doctors did not find a single case of in-couple HIV transmission within that time, raising hopes that widespread ART programmes could eventually end new infections. "Our findings provide conclusive evidence for gay men that the risk of HIV transmiss...
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A three-eyed snake found slithering down a road in the northern Australian town of Humpty Doo has sparked amusement in a country already accustomed to unusual wildlife. Rangers dubbed the unusual serpent "Monty Python" after finding it on a highway...
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Because he can't say goodbye.
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"I will stab anyone who comes to my house with polio drops," Khan growled, refusing to be filmed or photographed as he shopped in a fly-blown bazaar on the outskirts of Peshawar, a city scarred by years on the frontline of Islamist militancy in Pakis...
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PG&E Corp said in a regulatory filing that it learned on March 20 that the SEC was investigating it in relation to its public disclosures and accounting for losses associated with the 2017 and 2018 Northern California wildfires and the 2015 Butte fir...
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As far back as he can remember, Willard Church Jr. has gone out ice fishing well into the month of April, chopping holes that were easily four feet deep into the Kanektok River near his home. "I am a hunter and a fisherman and I have spent my whole...