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The Senate just confirmed Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA, despite unreleased...
The Senate voted 52 to 46 on Friday to confirm Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.Pruitt, formerly Oklahoma's attorney general, enters the job as a high-profile legal...
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The radical plan to save China from air pollution
When Stefano Boeri imagines the future of urban China he sees green, and lots of it. Office blocks, homes and hotels decked from top to toe in a verdant blaze of shrubbery and plant life; a breath of...
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Trump’s new EPA chief barely mentioned the environment in his first address...
Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) critic who recently took over the agency as part of the Trump administration, gave his first address in his new position Tuesday.The former...
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The damage done when corals die is even worse than scientists previously thought
When the water in the sea gets warmer, corals can get stressed, causing them to release their photosynthesizing algae in a process called bleaching — so-called because the coral turns white. This is...
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Automakers ask Trump's new EPA chief to withdraw Obama-era fuel-efficiency rules
WASHINGTON - A trade association representing General Motors Co , Toyota Motor Corp , Volkswagen AG and nine other automakers on Tuesday asked new Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt to...
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Scott Pruitt's emails reinforce his coziness with the very industries the EPA...
After a close Senate vote on Friday, Scott Pruitt ascended from the position of frequent critic of the Environmental Protection Agency to become its boss.Up until the last minute before the vote,...
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The 'doomsday' vault that stores every known crop on the planet just got a...
Buried in the side of a mountain in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault stores virtually every kind of seed.And on Wednesday, that seed...
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Earth's newest continent 'Zealandia' was found thanks to a giant underwater...
Zealandia is a new and mostly submerged continent off the coast of New Zealand.The discovery started with offshore oil drilling in the 1960s.A UN treaty that gave drilling rights to continental crust...
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A forgotten war technology could safely power Earth for millions of years....
Humanity may face an energy crisis as the world's population rapidly grows.Nuclear power plants can generate bountiful, carbon-free electricity, but their solid fuel is problematic, and aging reactors...
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Here's where 5 key Obama environmental policies stand under Trump
Donald Trump ran for office as a climate skeptic and critic of the Environmental Protection Agency.So when one of the Trump teams' first acts after the election was publishing on GreatAgain.gov a...
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An oil that can be found is popular foods like Nutella is harming wildlife
Global production of palm oil has doubled over the last decade, according to the World Wildlife Foundation, and worldwide demand for it is expected to double by 2050 to 240 million tonnes.Palm oil can...
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A strange physical phenomenon is helping scientists predict where massive...
Earthquakes happen when there's a sudden release of energy from the Earth's outer shell, causing the surface to shake. They're measured on the Richter scale, which basically records what level the...
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Chicago is a day away from breaking a weather streak that's lasted 146 years
When people ask what it's like to live in Chicago, I tell them, "Seven months a year, it's the greatest city in America."The other five, of course, are often bitterly cold, snowy, and windy. And living...
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A 'War on Science' is underway — here are 5 ways to do something about it
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.President Trump's decision to constrain and muzzle scientific research signals an important milestone. The War on Science has...
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Shell released a film in 1991 predicting the devastating effects of climate...
The oil giant Shell issued a stark warning of the catastrophic risks of climate change more than a quarter of century ago in a prescient 1991 film that has been rediscovered.However, since then the...
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Trump's new executive order could be a first step toward dismantling Obama's...
President Donald Trump is preparing to take a first step toward dismantling Barack Obama's environmental legacy.Trump on Tuesday is expected to sign an executive order instructing the Environmental...
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Trump's budget could cut 3,000 staff from the EPA, report suggests
Trump's budget proposal is expected to cut $2 billion and 20% of staff from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a report from E&E News.As reported by the New York Times, the...
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Earth entered a new epoch on July 16, 1945 — and that's just the beginning of...
If you've ever hiked in the woods or picnicked in a park, you've probably heard of the concept "leave no trace." The 90s-era conservation ethics code encourages people to clean up after themselves...
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Oklahoma now has the same risk of earthquakes as California
A large swath of Oklahoma will face the same threat of a severe earthquake as California in 2017, according the United States Geological Survey's forecast for this year.The prediction isn't exactly...
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Sand mining is the global environmental crisis you’ve probably never heard of
Times are good for Fey Wei Dong. A genial, middle-aged businessman based near Shanghai, China, Fey says he is raking in the equivalent of £180,000 a year from trading in the humblest of commodities:...
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