The case for “conditional opti...

Dec 31, 2018 by

Limiting the damage requires rapid, radical change — but such changes have happened before.

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Puerto Rico May Hold the Answe...

Dec 31, 2018 by

The island’s special breed may help solve colony collapse disorder.

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California’s coastal hab...

Dec 31, 2018 by

Climate change is transforming the state’s coast but with habitats hemmed in by cliffs, condos and farms, pre-emptive action is needed to preserve biodiversity

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Ten Ways 2018 Brought Us Close...

Dec 27, 2018 by

The 20 warmest years ever recorded have been within the last 22 years, and the four warmest of those have been 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, according to the World Meteorological Organization

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Trump Imperils the Planet

Dec 27, 2018 by

Endangered species, climate change — the administration is taking the country, and the world, backward.

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Looking Back on Ryan Zinke’s R...

Dec 26, 2018 by

For 2 long years at Interior, he either ignored or attacked science.

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As anti-plastic movements swee...

Dec 26, 2018 by

Environmentalists hailed the move, which according to new figures released this month, may have saved more than 1.5 billion bags from going into overstuffed kitchen drawers or landfills in less than six months.

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As hunting declines, efforts g...

Dec 24, 2018 by

As fewer Americans take up hunting, wildlife managers need other funding sources.

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We Need To Talk About Palm Oil

Dec 24, 2018 by

We eat it, clean our homes and bodies with it and even fuel our cars with it. But our insatiable demand for palm oil is wreaking havoc on the planet — and our climate.

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Scientists Are Fighting Climat...

Dec 24, 2018 by

“Every little bit helps.”

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What Exactly Does Gluten Do to...

Dec 24, 2018 by

Developments in technology and research methods have led to a deeper understanding of nutrition.

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THE CANADIAN INITIATIVE FOR SA...

Dec 21, 2018 by

Electrohypersensitivity or EHS is a physiological condition.

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‘We are at war’: N...

Dec 21, 2018 by

Rat-related callouts rise as experts say warming temperatures are helping New York’s rats feed and mate longer into the year

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Studies Warn of Increasing Sea...

Dec 21, 2018 by

Ice loss in the Antarctic has tripled in just the last decade alone, and is currently losing 219 billion metric tons of ice annually. That number is up from 73 billion metric tons per year as of a decade ago.

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THIS IS BIG

Dec 21, 2018 by

Amid all the sobering stories and projections about climate change in the news lately, we have some upbeat news to share. Our hard work is having a BIG impact.

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The Disturbing Trend Behind Am...

Dec 21, 2018 by

The majority of those deaths were suicides.

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Republicans are not prepared f...

Dec 20, 2018 by

I love my parents. But they are Conservative, Trump supporting, selectively racist Republicans who eschew the news because “it’s always bad/depressing” (except when they watch Fox.) The Primetime news hour is “time for Wheel of Fortune.” And they are totally unprepared for what’s coming.

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EU to ban common single-use pl...

Dec 20, 2018 by

“Europe now has a legislative model to defend and promote at international level, given the global nature of the issue of marine pollution involving plastics.”

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Congress just passed the most ...

Dec 20, 2018 by

The First Step Act adopts significant, but modest, criminal justice reforms.

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Court cites Dr Seuss’s T...

Dec 20, 2018 by

Federal court in Virginia says officials were trusted to ‘speak for the trees’ as it tosses out pipeline permit

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Addicted to Vaped Nicotine, Te...

Dec 20, 2018 by

A Harvard addiction medicine specialist is getting calls from distraught parents around the country. A Stanford psychologist is getting calls from rattled school officials around the world. A federal agency has ordered a public hearing on the issue.

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This Year’s Extreme Weather Sh...

Dec 20, 2018 by

“You have to think 10, 20, 30, and 100 years ahead. And nobody budgets or plans for that.”

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10 endangered species the Trum...

Dec 19, 2018 by

A new report describes the 10 species most at risk from policies proposed by the current administration.

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Agriculture is a big climate p...

Dec 19, 2018 by

Farmers need to act immediately, he pointed out, if the world hopes to stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of average global temperature rise — the threshold where some of the worst effects of climate change start to present themselves.

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Penguin Poop, Seen From Space,...

Dec 19, 2018 by

We didn’t believe it either.

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Trump’s White House Will Have ...

Dec 18, 2018 by

The bill is now on the mayor’s desk.

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The Coming Commodification of ...

Dec 18, 2018 by

As internet-connected devices and appliances accumulate, one academic foresees “the monetization of every move you make.”

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What’s on the Horizon fo...

Dec 17, 2018 by

A new Congress means shifting politics and priorities. Here’s what multifamily will be focused on in the year ahead.

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A moral test at climate summit...

Dec 15, 2018 by

The Paris Agreement was forged in a spirit of unified commitment. Now world leaders must determine how to quantify the obligation to aid developing nations in an energy transition.

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Outrage nation: Can America ov...

Dec 15, 2018 by

Twenty years ago, observers worried that apathy was the biggest threat to the American psyche. Today, that seems quaint. How can Americans turn off the outrage machine that urges them to get angry about . . . well, everything?

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