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Sentinel-5P puts eyes in the sky to monitor progress in reducing atmospheric pollution

The successful launch of Sentinel-5P means scientists will soon have access to the most accurate monitoring yet of pollution and climate change related gases in earth's atmosphere




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Kilgali Amendment would phase out climate-changing HFC refrigerants. Will Trump ratify it?

Our bet: no.




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Saraye: Traditional Tatami Purses from Cambodia

We love products that support or revive traditional crafts. Check out, for ex ample, the work of Kallari, fair trade suppliers of traditional Amazonian baskets, which we reported on here. Now we've come across another cool basket supplier, this time




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Cambodia's First Ethanol Plant Will Use One-Fifth of Nation's Cassava Crop

Just a quick one on ethanol and Southeast Asia: Chinaview.cn is reporting that Cambodia has opened the nation’s first ethanol production facility. Using cassava as a feedstock, at least initially all of the




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New "Corpse Plant" Species Discovered in Former Khmer Rouge Territory

Previously unknown species in a relatively undisturbed bioregion of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia have been uncovered by a recent study — 24 in total, including a so-called "corpse




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Conservation Canines Trained To Sniff Out Tigers in Cambodia

For the first time, conservationists from WWF are putting dogs' superb sense of smell on the trail of tigers in Cambodia. Coming from the University of Washington Conservation Canines program, the dogs are trained to sniff out




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Rare Video of Wild Cambodian Elephant Released by Wildlife Conservation Society

There are only an estimated 116 wild Asian elephants in Cambodia's Seima Protection Area, and until now most of the photographic evidence of them has be taken by camera traps. New footage released by the Wildlife Conservation Society changes that. The




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Archaeologists use lasers to find a lost city

Australian researchers used LIDAR, the aerial laser technology, to rediscover the city of Mahendraparvata in Cambodia.




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Eye-opening docu-series puts fashion-loving teens to work in sweatshop (Video)

Fast fashion hurts real people, as this online series challenges three unsuspecting youngsters to go meet and work with the people who make their clothes.




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Sustainable skills, sustainable resources: Nonprofit helps sex trafficking survivors

Nomi Network helps to provide training and jobs to women in India and Cambodia.




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Why you shouldn't use your washer's delicate cycle

It uses twice as much water and releases 800,000 more plastic microparticles per load than a regular cycle.




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Bet you didn't know about this fashion industry dirty secret

It's time to talk about ... wait for it ... the problem with hangers.




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Companies are promoting false solutions to plastic waste

They may sound progressively eco-friendly, but a new Greenpeace report explains why they're not.




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What is Passive House?

We have never actually explained this in one post on TreeHugger. I am going to try.




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Studio 804 creates smaller houses for a changing market

Dan Rockhill and his students keep pushing the building envelope.




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Landmark study shows how to change the building sector from a major carbon emitter to a major carbon sink

When made from the right materials, buildings can be a solution, not a problem.




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7 high-impact lifestyle changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

If 10 percent of Americans adopted these 7 changes, we could cut total domestic emissions by 8 percent in 6 years.




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Diesel Motorbike Speed Record Smashed

The DIE Moto, the diesel-engined motorbike which we have covered before, has broken the land speed record for a diesel motorbike, with a speed of 130mph.




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Harvard's Transformer Houses, Clad in BMW's Cloth

What happens when you give a futuristic cloth-like material designed for BMW coupes with a bevy of design students and funding from one of the world's leading




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This makes sense: BMW tells kids to dress up in fluorescent clothing

It's Blame the Victim time as the car company tells pedestrians to brighten up.




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BMW increases i3 production 43%, Tesla fans sneer

Wouldn't it be nice if clean tech advocates could, for once, just stop fighting with each other?




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BMW proposes elevated e-bike cycleways to ease congestion & speed commutes

Instead of banning cars from city centers, this automaker recommends elevated roads for electric bikes & scooters to ease congestion and emissions.




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Indoor Air Quality: Causes Of, Testing, and Monitoring Indoor Air Pollution

Pollution from power plants, cars, and other transportation is a well-known contributor to outdoor air pollution, but our indoor air quality is often worse; it can be up to 10 times worse for you than the air outside. Microbial pollutants like mold,




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Your Carbon Footprint: Calculating, Reducing and Offsetting Your Impact

In addition to metrics like ecological footprint, each of us (and each of the products and services we use and consume every day) has a carbon footprint; it's a way to measure the relative impact of our actions -- as individuals, as businesses,




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First ever porous liquid shows promise for carbon capture

Up until now, only solid materials have offered the ability to capture materials using the filtering power of pores




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Growth in World Contraceptive Use Stalling; 215 Million Women’s Needs Still Unmet

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.




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Farms Use 60 Times More Land Than Cities: It's Time to Develop Terraculture

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.




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Expect 2°C Temperature Rise by Mid-Century, Club of Rome Report Says

On a more positive note, the report also notes that population growth with stabilize sooner than expected, at about 8 billion people by 2042.




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Redefining Security for the 21st Century

The 21st century needs a redefinition of security, to something broader than military terms, a relic of the Cold War.




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For World Vasectomy Day, men encouraged to 'get whacked for wildlife'

Concerned about the overpopulation of our planet and the effect it has on wildlife? Perhaps it's time to talk about the most effective form of male contraception.




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UN revises population projections downward

Annual growth will soon be negative everywhere except Africa.




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India may smash its 175 GW renewables target several years early

It's not revising up its official targets, but the government is hinting that it may now achieve 225 GW by 2022.




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Just add water and sunlight to these gold stars to create renewable energy

In a double breakthrough, scientists find a material four times more efficient at making hydrogen by photocatalysis and demonstrate how to make it at low temperature




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Cleveland, birthplace of Standard Oil, promises 100% renewable energy

There's symbolism here. Let's hope there's substance too.




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Community solar-plus-storage goes big in Massachusetts

Home owners are going solar, without having to put anything on their roof.




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Two excellent strategies for second-hand shopping

Frugality blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames has outfitted her house and family with thrifted finds. This is her advice.




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Build a Geodesic Greenhouse

Keep your plants in fighting shape, even after the first frost sets, with a geodesic-dome greenhouse of your very own. And raise a homegrown cantaloupe to Buckminster Fuller while you're at it.




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Why can't a house be built as well as a car?

It can; but until Americans are willing to trade quantity for quality, nobody will bother doing it.




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Bucky Fuller's grain silo houses found in New Jersey

A dozen units survive, according to Alastair Gordon in the New York Times




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"Mr. Fuller, Why would you build a round house?"

Of course, Bucky answered, "Why not?" On Pi Day, we look at the Dymaxion and other round houses."




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Celebrate Pi Day tomorrow at precisely 3.141592653 (about 9:30 AM)

Tomorrow, real men eat quiche (cheese pi).




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What are the lessons from Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House?

The biggest one is that no matter how clever the design, it is the land that matters, not the house, and that nothing has changed in 70 years.




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What happens when insect fat replaces butter in Belgian waffles?

A taste-test between the two kinds of fat had a surprising outcome.




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The world's first 'test tube' puppies could help preserve endangered canid species

It could also help us eradicate heritable diseases in dogs.




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Is your dog scratching because of a meat allergy?

Who would have thought our canine companions could have allergies to a carnivorous diet?




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After sightings, the search is on for extinct thylacine

The last of these dog-like animals, also known as Tasmanian tigers, was thought to have died in 1936. But might they still be lurking elusively in the wild?




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Eye On Earth Connects the Dots So People Can See Environmental Issues

A heat wave vulnerability map goes viral, boosting interactive technology that helps make important environmental data accessible.




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Google Street View Lets You See the Sights of Midway Atoll

The remote atoll which is home to endangered species and historic landmarks can now be explored from your computer.




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Secret Google Maps gesture is awesome for one-handed navigation

A great gesture that allows you to zoom into a map with one hand on your smart phone.




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See how the world’s cities will look with rising oceans

3D maps created by Climate Central show how sea level rise could change some familiar cityscapes.