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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. Burundi, Central African Republic, Madagascar, the Bahamas, and Latvia slipped significantly in environmental performance, largely due to sub-par performance on climate change.

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Oceans Lock Away Carbon Slower Than Previously Thought

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“We’re talking roughly hundreds of gigatonnes of discrepancy if you don’t include these marine snow tails,” says Manu Prakash , a bioengineer at Stanford University and one of the paper’s authors. The work was conducted by researchers at Stanford, Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

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Video Friday: Ameca Humanoid

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CTU ] Carnegie Mellon University's Iris rover is bolted in and ready for its journey to the moon. ETH Zurich ] Cassie Blue autonomously navigates on the second floor of the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. The tiny rover passed a huge milestone on Wednesday, Dec. metre-tall green architectural sculpture. [