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CNN reports here: A bridge made entirely out of waste plastic has been built over the River Tweed in Scotland

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Cut back on soot, methane to slow warming, AFP reports here at Yahoo News: If their 14 recommendations — whittled from a potential field of 400 existing pollution control measures — are followed, global warming could be reduced by about half a degree Centigrade (0.9 Fahrenheit) by 2050, the study said.

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CNN reports here: “Fuel-powered light is dangerous, polluting, expensive and dim,” says Dr Evan Mills, founder of the Lumina Project, an initiative that promotes low-carbon alternatives to fuel-based lighting in the developing world. See also: Lighting Africa

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Carbon emissions ‘defer Ice Age’, BBC News reports here: The next Ice Age is due within 1,500 years, researchers calculate – but greenhouse gas emissions mean it will not happen then.

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BBC News reports here: Tropical forests in Africa may be more resilient to future climate change than the Amazon and other regions, say scientists.

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