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BBC News
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Britain's own underwater "Atlantis" could be revealed for the first time with hi-tech underwater cameras.
Marine archaeologist Stuart Bacon and Professor David Sear, of the University of Southampton, will explore the lost city of Dunwich, off the Suffo..
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MSNBC
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Archeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of the Mexican capital that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought.
Mexican archeologists found the ruins, which are about 36..
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BBC News
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New York's yellow taxis will go hybrid in five years, in an effort to cut air pollution and tackle climate change, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said.
Hybrids run on petrol and electricity, therefore emitting less exhaust.
The new vehicles are to be p..
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CNN
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New York City produces almost 1 percent of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions -- an amount that puts it on par with Ireland or Portugal -- according to a city study.
The study, released Tuesday, was ordered by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to assess the c..
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Associated Press
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The question goes something like this: How many toilet flushes does it take to power a light bulb? There's really no answer, but Salt Lake City is exploring a pilot project that would convert sewer waste into energy to run a heating a cooling system in a..
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BBC News
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St Louis in Senegal is the city most threatened by rising sea levels in the whole of Africa, a senior United Nations official says.
"Climate change is the principal reason," UN Habitat's Alioune Badiane told a conference in St Louis, AFP news agency re..
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BBC News
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Hormone surges among City traders could be partly responsible for driving "boom and bust" economics, say researchers.
A Cambridge University team found testosterone levels were directly linked to the profit they made.
The Proceedings of the National..
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BBC News
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Abu Dhabi has started to build what it says is the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste car-free city.
Masdar City will cost $22bn (�11.3bn), take eight years to build and be home to 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses.
The city will be mostly pow..
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USA Today
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The Dutch city of The Hague on Wednesday announced plans to use geothermal heating — water from a hot well deep underground — to warm 4,000 households and several industrial buildings, as part of a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Although..
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BBC News
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Large parts of the US city of New Orleans are still at risk of flooding in a major storm, a report has found.
Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina lashed the US Gulf Coast, $1bn (�502m) has been spent to fix hurricane-protection systems.
But m..
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BBC News
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Ancient Rome has been brought back to life through a unique digital reconstruction project, said to be the world's biggest computer simulation.
An international team of architects, archaeologists and experts spent 10 years working on a real-time 3D mod..
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