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CHINESE 'ROOFTOPPER' WU YONGNING PLUNGES TO HIS DEATH FROM 62-STOREY TOWER AS $20,000 STUNT GOES WRONG
Chinese media reported Mr Wu had been offered prizemoney of 100,000 yuan 20,000 for his latest stunt, but there were no details about who the sponsor was... READ MORE›
INTERIM REVIEW OF GRENFELL TOWER TRAGEDY CALLS FOR 'CULTURE CHANGE' IN U.K. FIRE SAFETY
An interim review into U.K. building regulations commissioned after the Grenfell Tower social housing block fire in London that killed 71 people in June, h... READ MORE›
GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CO2 LEVELS HIT RECORD HIGH
The new report has raised alarm among scientists and prompted calls for nations to consider more drastic emissions reductions at the upcoming climate negotiations in Bonn... READ MORE›
CONCENTRATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN ATMOSPHERE HITS RECORD HIGH, U.N. SAYS
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016, the World Meteorological Organization said... READ MORE›
CONCENTRATION OF CO2 IN ATMOSPHERE HITS RECORD HIGH
The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, the UN weather agency's annual flagship report, tracks the continent of dangerous gasses in atmosphere in the post-industrial era since 1750 ... READ MORE›
ENERGY FIRMS BACK INVESTMENT INTO DIESEL ENGINE
Another investment is into Solidia Technologies, a US-based cement and concrete production company that uses carbon dioxide instead of water in curing cement... READ MORE›
COUPLE BET ON SAINT JOHN'S UNION STREET FOR NEW LOFT-STYLE HOME
There's very few buildings around uptown Saint John that are available at our price point that would do that, said Allen Blois... READ MORE›
A FIRST LOOK AT 8 POSSIBLE VERSIONS OF TRUMP'S BORDER WALL
The 30 feet is very impressive, said Mario Villareal, the division chief for the San Diego Sector Border Patrol... READ MORE›
EL NINO CONTRIBUTES TO NEW HIGH IN CO2 LEVELS
The amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide CO2 in our world is likely to top 410 parts per million ppm this year... READ MORE›
NASA SATELLITE SPOTS SEASONAL SPIKES IN CARBON EMISSIONS, INCLUDING IN TROPICS DUE TO EL NINO
Data from a circling NASA satellite show spikes in carbon emissions worldwide, particularly in winter, along with new insights into the rising levels of po... READ MORE›
GREENHOUSE GAS TEST STARTS IN ICELAND
Every ton of carbon dioxide we don't emit in the first place means we don't have to take it out later on, she said... READ MORE›
WORLD WILL NEED 'CARBON SUCKING' TECHNOLOGY BY 2030S, SCIENTISTS WARN
I don't think we can have confidence that anything else can do this, the Berlin-based chief executive told a London climate change conference... READ MORE›
ENGINEERS: LIVES LOST IN MEXICO QUAKE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED
Mexico City officials were widely lauded for tightening their building codes after thousands died in the 1985 earthquake... READ MORE›
LIBRARY BOARD ADVISED TO REFURBISH ROSEMOUNT LIBRARY TO SAVE MONEY
On Tuesday, the Ottawa Public Library OPL board will receive a report recommending the least favourite idea put forward by bookworms to revitalize the Rosemount Library... READ MORE›
CHARITY ATTACKS SYSTEM OF 'SELF-ACCOMMODATION' FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES
Homeless families should not have to find their own emergency housing in Ireland, a leading support charity said... READ MORE›
WE MUST BUILD UPWARDS TO HALT SPRAWL
On restrictions for high-rise apartment complexes, Mr Murphy said he intended to lift the caps in city centres and along key public transport corridors... READ MORE›
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HUMANS ON THE VERGE OF CAUSING EARTH'S FASTEST CLIMATE CHANGE IN 50M YEARS
A new study published in Nature Communications looks at changes in solar activity and carbon dioxide levels over the past 420 million years... READ MORE›
'EVERYTHING IS DESTROYED': A DEADLY SURGE OF VIOLENCE STRIKES EASTERN UKRAINE
A woman speaks on her cellphone amid the ruins of a building after shelling in Donetsk, near Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, on Feb. 3... READ MORE›
TRUMP WANTS TO BUILD A WALL. FINDING WORKERS WON'T BE EASY
The cohort of unauthorized construction workers declined to 1.2 million in 2012, down 23 percent from five years earlier, Pew said... READ MORE›
US SCIENTISTS FIND NEW WAY TO CONVERT CO2 TO GREEN FUEL
Unexpected discovery that produces ethanol could be a building block towards creating a low-carbon energy system... READ MORE›
'NEW ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE REALITY' AS EMISSIONS HIT SYMBOLIC THRESHOLD
Around two-thirds of the warming effect, known as radiative forcing, by long-lived greenhouse gases comes from carbon dioxide... READ MORE›
WE ARE WASTING THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN
Restoring forests could also help, by locking up carbon dioxide that would otherwise escape into the air... READ MORE›
MAN JAILED FOR DANGLING BABY FROM WINDOW IN ALGERIA
The father dangled his baby out of a window in a high-rise building to attract likes on Facebook... READ MORE›
AMERICA NEEDS SMALL APARTMENT BUILDINGS. NOBODY BUILDS THEM
But the best reason is that smaller apartment buildings are often cheaper for renters... READ MORE›
LONDON FIRES DEATH TOLL RISES TO 30; SOME VICTIMS MIGHT NEVER BE IDENTIFIED
Government officials have also promised to provide housing for displaced residents of Grenfell Tower... READ MORE›
STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS NOW: THERE IS NO CO2 'TECHNOFIX', SCIENTISTS WARN
In a thought experiment they tried another option the future dramatic removal of huge volumes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere... READ MORE›
LONDON FIRE: WITNESS RECALLS SEEING MAN CATCH BABY
Smoke rises from an apartment building in west London... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 6 KILLED, 50 INJURED AS FIRE ENGULFS 24-STOREY LONDON APARTMENT BUILDING
Flames shot from windows all the way up the 24-story Grenfell Tower in North Kensington as more than 200 firefighters battled the blaze... READ MORE›
'THE FIRE IS HERE NOW, GOODBYE'
London tower fire First victim named as Syrian refugee Mohammad al-Haj Ali... READ MORE›
75 OUT OF 75 HIGH-RISES IN BRITAIN FAIL FIRE SAFETY TESTS
Damage to Grenfell Tower is seen following the catastrophic fire in west London... READ MORE›
AMAZON RAINFOREST LOSING CAPACITY TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE AS TREES DIE
For the first time in history, carbon dioxide absorption by the Amazon rainforest has been surpassed by fossil fuel emissions in Latin America, the study found... READ MORE›
AUTHORITIES CONFIRM FATALITIES AFTER MASSIVE FIRE ENGULFS LONDON APARTMENT BLOCK
London's Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton has confirmed people were killed when a fire engulfed an entire apartment building in Kensington... READ MORE›
GRENFELL TOWER: CLADDING MATERIAL LINKED TO FIRE PULLED FROM SALE WORLDWIDE
Arconic discontinues Reynobond PE, an element of cladding linked to the London blaze, for use in high-rise buildings... READ MORE›
AFTER LONDON FIRE CLADDING ON 600 HIGH RISES IS BEING TESTED
Safety checks after the deadly blaze at the 24-story Grenfell Tower have so far found three other buildings clad in potentially combustible materials... READ MORE›
IN U.K., ALL 75 BUILDINGS TESTED SO FAR FOR FIRE SAFETY HAVE FAILED
Thousands face evacuation as the authorities race to see how many high-rises have been wrapped in the same combustible cladding as that at Grenfell Tower... READ MORE›
VIENNA PLANS WORLD'S TALLEST WOODEN SKYSCRAPER
We have wood, which is a perfect construction material for building, she said... READ MORE›
THE WORLD IS RACING TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE WITH TEMPERATURE GOALS BUT THE MATH DOESNT ADD UP
These scenarios often have the world removing net amounts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere after 2050, rather than putting more there... READ MORE›
THE LONDON FIRE WHAT WE KNOW
Grenfell Tower's management company carried out an overhaul of the fire safety system only last year, considering it a model for its many properties... READ MORE›
NIGERIA CHURCH COLLAPSES ONTO WORSHIPPERS, KILLING 160
Youth leader Edikan Peters said many other victims were in private mortuaries scattered all over the city of Uyo... READ MORE›
WOULD THIS LONDON HIGH-RISE PASS MUSTER IN NEW YORK SHORT ANSWER NO
Would the building's construction have passed safety regulations in New York City?... READ MORE›
IN MEXICO CITY, HUNDREDS JOIN IN CHAOTIC RESCUE
MEXICO CITY -- The seven-story apartment building had just flattened into a layer-cake of concrete... READ MORE›
EVACUATED LONDON RESIDENTS TRY TO COPE
On Thursday, there was confusion about the number of tower blocks thought to have hazardous cladding similar to Grenfell Tower's... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: HOMEWORLD EVICTS SENATOR BOB DAY THE BUILDER
HomeWorld has removed the Family First senator's NSW outfit, Huxley Homes, from its display-home sites... READ MORE›
FORT MCMURRAY FIRE ANNIVERSARY COMES AS SOME STILL STRUGGLING TO REBUILD
One year on, some in Fort McMurray are rebuilding and moving forward, but others feel frozen in place... READ MORE›
LONDON IS GETTING A SKY POOL, NO REALLY
London's South Bank Is Getting The World's First Sky Swimming Pool... READ MORE›
27 PUBLIC HOUSING APARTMENT BUILDINGS FAIL SAFETY CHECKS
Thousands of residents in a northwest London housing estate have been forced to leave their apartments after fire checks found the buildings to be unsafe... READ MORE›