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Vintage EPA photos reveal what New York City looked like before the US...
New York City produces twice as much trash as any other mega-city on Earth, according to a recent study. The Environmental Protection Agency has described Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal as "one of the...
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An invisible boundary that divides the US in half has started to shift — and...
The '100th meridian west' is an invisible line of longitude that roughly bisects the United States' in half, separating the humid eastern states from the arid western states.Since the 1980s, this...
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On Earth Day, National Geographic is broadcasting stunning, previously...
Earth Day is one of the world's largest celebrations of our environment. To commemorate the holiday, National Geographic is debuting a "Symphony for our World": a television event that will pair a...
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Cities around the US are flooding on sunny days — here's what it's like
Sea level rise is threatening coastal cities around the world.If you live in a city like Miami, New York City, or Charleston, the evidence is apparent if you head to the right neighborhood during high...
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Vintage photos taken by the EPA reveal what America looked like before...
This Earth Day, we take a look back at how bad things used to be.Before the Environmental Protection Agency started regulating what we polluted into the nation's air, water, and land, things were dire....
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A mother in Flint, Michigan collected more than 800 neighborhood water...
Flint, Michigan resident LeeAnne Walters is a 2018 winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activism. Walters tested her own drinking water in Flint and found it was more potent than...
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The 25 most dangerously polluted cities in the US
More than 133.9 million Americans live in counties with unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association's 2018 "State of the Air" report. That figure is a 9 million person...
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Putin's nuclear 'doomsday machine' could trigger 300-foot tsunamis — but the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said Russia was developing a nuclear-powered torpedo that could detonate a "massive"nuclear weapon.Such a device might create a 300-foot tsunami if exploded in...
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One of the scariest effects of climate change might already be happening —...
Warm waters are pooling underneath Antarctic glaciers in a way that's causing glaciers to melt more rapidly and preventing the formation of cool water beneath Antarctica, according to a new study.This...
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5 sobering charts that show how many resources Americans use and waste
The United States is the third most populous nation on Earth, with about 319 million inhabitants. So it's no surprise the country uses a lot of resources — and makes an incredible amount of...
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Trump has shrunk Bears Ears National Monument by 85% — here's what it looks like
President Donald Trump announced the reduction of two national monuments in Utah in December.Bears Ears was reduced by 85% in the months that followed, in the largest acreage reduction of a national...
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Trump has shrunk the amount of protected land in the US more than any other...
President Donald Trump's administration has dramatically reduced the size of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument — the largest reduction of protected land to...
View ArticleWhy you should never release your pet goldfish into the wild
Goldfish may look small and cute in your home, but in the wild, it’s a different story. Releasing them into your local stream or lake is a bad idea. Following is a transcript of the video.Right now,...
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A Chernobyl 'suicide squad' of volunteers helped save Europe — here's their...
The Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster occurred on April 26, 1986.One of four nuclear reactors exploded, spreading hundreds of times more radioactive fallout than either nuclear bomb dropped on...
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The site of the world's worst nuclear meltdown is about to become a solar farm
It's the 32nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Now the site is being developed into a solar farm. Two companies have a contract to start building a one-megawatt solar farm next month, and they're...
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Half of the Great Barrier Reef has died since 2016 — but Australia's $400...
Half of the coral reefs that make up Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been killed off by searing heat waves that caused coral bleaching events in 2016 and 2017.The Australian government is investing...
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This fisherman risks his life to catch the world's most elusive, notorious...
From remote Ugandan waterfalls to the murky waters off the coast of West Africa, ecologist and fisherman Andy Coetzee goes to extreme lengths to catch some of the rarest, most prized fish in the...
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Far-right protesters and leftists around the world hit the streets for May...
May Day, celebrated on the first day of May every year, has long been a symbolic day for workers' rights around the world.But May Day 2018 turned out to be a day of violent clashes between police and...
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A Silicon Valley biotech hub that offers startups $250,000 says venture...
Silicon Valley's 33,000-company startup scene is highly competitive.Arvind Gupta is the founder of a fast-growing biotech incubator called IndieBio that funded meat alternative startup Memphis Meats,...
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A scientist says he's invented a replacement for plastic water bottles that...
Choose Water's "plastic-less" bottle is made of recycled and natural materials which can purportedly decompose within three weeks.British inventor James Longcroft hopes this will replace single-use...
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