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Hot, dry summers are fanning an unprecedented outbreak of bark beetles that are destroying vast swathes of central Europe’s spruce forests which define the region’s landscape.
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Solar geoengineering describes a set of approaches that would reflect sunlight to cool the planet.
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The delay appears to be an acknowledgment that the court decision is a significant setback for what President Trump has called his policy of “energy dominance” — an effort to rapidly expand oil and gas drilling across the country.
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The peer pressure to clean up the electric grid is gripping the country.
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Every half hour, the world lost a football-field chunk of tropical forest in 2018.
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Apple isn’t the only company that Ma has helped push toward reform. Since IPE was founded in 2006, his team has gotten more than 1,300 factories to address environmental messes such as discharging waste into rivers.
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“With the seasons increasingly unpredictable, fewer chicks will survive,” narrates series host Bear Grylls (of Man vs. Nature fame) as the barnacle goose chick seems to contemplate its onscreen fate.
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Nashville’s Zach Richardson uses sustainable practices — and a flock of sheep — to clear overgrown landscapes.
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“Yours is a grave and sobering responsibility, but it is also a shining opportunity. You go out into a world where mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not of nature, but of itself.”
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Starting next week, shoppers at Metro stores in Quebec can go zero waste more easily than ever.
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Wyoming wants to modify the Fontenelle Dam so it can use an extra 80,000 acre-feet of water from a tributary of the once-mighty Colorado River
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As Earth Day turns 49, we take a look back at the biggest milestones in environmental protection.
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Their habitat could soon be eradicated by climate change.
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The Arbor Day Foundation recently announced its Time for Trees initiative, which aims to plant 100 million trees by 2022.
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Handwritten journals from 50s show how plastic problem has grown to global emergency
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A little-known program under federal environment law is being used to permit oil and gas companies to inject waste into the state’s aquifers, even as the thirst for groundwater grows.
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Tiny bits of plastic likely blown from big cities 100 miles to the south have appeared in the remote French Pyrenees.
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Under Republican and Democratic presidents from Nixon through Obama, killing migratory birds, even inadvertently, was a crime, with fines for violations ranging from $250 to $100 million.
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Salmon on psychotropics, platypuses on prozac, and other strange tales from the wild
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