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Biologists pulled something disturbing out of this turtle's nose that saved...
An unlucky turtle caught a break last month when a team of biologists saved it from certain death.The team was researching turtles off the pacific coast of Costa Rica but got more than it bargained for...
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Pollution turned Beijing’s air from black to blue and back again in a matter...
Call it a temporary fix.In the two weeks leading up to a much-anticipated military parade on Thursday — a spectacle celebrating 70 years since Japan's surrender in World War II — Beijing's notoriously...
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Scientists tried to redo 38 climate change-denying studies — and it didn't go...
About 97% of scientists agree not only that climate change is real, but also that human activity, like driving a fossil fuel-burning car, is making it worse.That agreement stems from nearly 4,000...
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Scientists tried to redo 38 climate change-denying studies — and it didn't go...
About 97% of scientists agree not only that climate change is real, but also that human activity, like driving a fossil fuel-burning car, is making it worse.That agreement stems from nearly 4,000...
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This massive tower sucks in smog and turns it into fine jewelry
The air we breathe is not as clean as it once was — and in many cases, it is getting worse.According to a recent study by researchers at UC Berkeley, smog kills about 4,000 people every day in China....
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East Coast shark populations are reaching new records, and that’s a good thing
U.S. shark researchers caught and tagged 2,835 sharks along the East Coast this spring, a record number which they say reflects a growing population thanks to federal protections.It surpassed the 1,831...
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Startling images of 'unprecedented' floods wreaking havoc on Japan
Typhoon Etau has hit Japan, bringing with it torrential downpours and severe flooding across vast parts of the country.Over the past two days, more than 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate...
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A 20-year-old is planning a 62-mile floating wall to make the ocean...
Three years ago, Boyan Slat was a precocious 18-year-old on a TEDx stage in the Netherlands, eloquently introducing people to his radical idea to clean up the ocean. He would build a network of...
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Singapore has come up with an ingenious way to save water
It rains a lot in Singapore — approximately 94 inches a year.But rather than let that water evaporate wastefully on the streets and sidewalks, Singapore sets a standard the rest of the world would be...
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Shocking before-and-after photos of California's mountains make what's...
The evidence of a warming planet is all around us.One place that makes this startlingly clear is California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, where the current snowpack is at the lowest it has been for...
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The world's oceans are in trouble
Now you see them, soon you won't.Almost half of all populations of marine animals with a backbone have declined in just 40 years, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Wildlife Fund.Not...
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Two NASA images show just how destructive China's urban growth has been for...
Even for a nation known for eye-popping rates of urbanization, what has happened along China’s Pearl River Delta (Zhu San Jiao) over the past few decades is extraordinary.In 1988, an interlacing...
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An unavoidable threat is killing more people than AIDS
LONDON (Reuters) - Air contaminated with pollutants such as ozone and tiny particles could cause the premature death of about 6.6 million people a year by 2050 if nothing is done to improve air...
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Before-and-after photos of China's air show just how terrible its air...
China's air is notoriously polluted, full of gray smog that covers the sky. The health problems associated with that pollution are the reason for 1.6 million deaths a year, or about 4,000 people a...
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Elon Musk says humanity is currently running 'the dumbest experiment in history'
At some point humans are going to run out of the fossil fuels that power their lives.There is no other end point to the current era — either because we've used them all up or because the Earth's...
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California's governor sent a letter to Republican candidate Ben Carson...
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he hasn't seen the evidence that climate change is a thing. To prove him wrong, California Gov. Jerry Brown sent Carson a letter and a flash drive...
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These 10 cities have the worst air pollution in the world, and it is up to 15...
Air pollution already kills 3.3 million people a year.And that number could double by 2050.The most harmful pollutant to human health is called PM 2.5, short for particle matter that's less than 2.5...
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The top 10 foods with the biggest environmental footprint
When you bite into a hamburger or slice into some salmon, do you think about the impact it had on the environment on its way to you?Well, maybe you should. Climate change is getting real, and...
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A beautiful, potentially toxic event is 'carpeting' the Baltic Sea
This striking green-blue image isn't a lost work of Van Gogh — it's a giant, growing bloom of microscopic plants and animals in the Baltic Sea, which NASA photographed from space on August 11.But don't...
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Devastating photos show how wildfires are turning parts of Calfornia into an...
California's water-starved landscape gave way to a series of wildfires earlier this summer that continue to ravage the state. So far, the fires have scorched about 350 square miles, an area which is...
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