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The Little-Known Fund at the Heart of the Paris Climate Agreement

Oscar Reyes 19/07/2016

The Green Climate Fund is supposed to finance the...

A driver waits in a taxi for his turn to fill up his tank with diesel at a fuel station. Credit: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri/Files

Two-Pronged Efforts to Reduce Diesel Fumes Gain Ground

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar 18/07/2016

The NGT has ordered all over ten-year-old diesel vehicles...

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Why Are We Still Waiting for the Male Pill?

Andy Extance 18/07/2016

Despite decades of promising research, the many men who...

The region under threat is built on the world’s largest river delta, and water is everywhere. Widespread poverty, soft sediments and rapidly multiplying infrastructure including bridges like this one near the southern city of Khulna make the region exquisitely vulnerable to earthquakes. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

A Giant Quake May Be Lurking Under Bangladesh and Beyond

Kevin Krajick 13/07/2016

Bangladesh and parts of North-Eastern India and Myanmar sit...

Labourers work at the site of a commercial building under construction in Noida. Credit: Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee/Files

Real Estate Projects May No Longer Need Environmental Clearances

The Wire Staff 13/07/2016

An environment ministry proposal, effectively already in use thanks...

Rabab Ali, with her younger brother. Credits: Qazi Ali Athar

Seven-Year-Old Sues Pakistan Government Over Climate Change

Zofeen T. Ebrahim 12/07/2016

Girl claims plans to develop dirty coal deposits will...

Callisto, one of the four Galilean moons. Credit: NASA

Infinite in All Directions: Lehrer’s Comeback, Curbside Geology and Life on Titan

Vasudevan Mukunth 11/07/2016

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire’s science newsletter....