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Most cities won’t be able to host the Summer Olympics by 2085
Researchers have claimed that global warming could make many cities around the world too hot to host the Summer Olympic Games in the coming decades.The team concludes that in just 70 years, only eight...
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GE is building America's first offshore wind farm with turbines twice as tall...
The US uses an astounding amount of energy: about 97 quadrillion BTUs, or about 18% of world's total energy consumption. And demand is only going to increase over time.The majority of the energy the...
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An Alaskan village is relocating due to global warming
After years of watching rising sea levels destroy homes and climbing temperatures erode the coast, voters in Shishmaref, Alaska, decided Tuesday to relocate their entire village — whose population of...
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A single region in Florida is showing the state how it can adapt to climate...
With every passing year, Southeast Florida faces more pressure to adapt to climate change.The region already experiences the effects of climate change, such as flooding on sunny days during the highest...
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Thousands of blue lakes are appearing in Antarctica, and it's very bad news
Scientists have confirmed that thousands of pristine blue lakes have appeared on the ice sheets of East Antarctica, and it’s got them very worried.The problem? They’ve seen this kind of thing happen...
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We need a global treaty on plastics — here’s what it should look like
Plastics have boosted our economy because they are versatile, cheap and durable.Yet, thanks to these same traits, in the course of establishing a US$750 billion global industry, we have also created a...
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How to avoid the Arctic death spiral
Ice scientists are mostly cheerful and pragmatic. Like many other researchers coolly observing the rapid warming of the world, they share a gallows humor and are cautious about entering the political...
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A massive crack is threatening to cause an entire Antarctic ice shelf to...
Scientists have been monitoring a fracture in one of the world’s biggest ice shelves, and report that in the last five months alone, it’s grown an extra 22 kilometers (13.67 miles) in length, and now...
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This might be the oldest living tree in Europe
Researchers might have just identified the oldest living tree in Europe: a Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii) that has been growing in the highlands of northern Greece since 941 AD, making it at least...
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There's a good reason GE picked Rhode Island for America's first offshore...
The kinds of energy policies we'll all have to adopt in the coming decades are already on display in New England.The region barely uses any coal, and the six states there are embracing renewables like...
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The most famous lion family in Southwest Africa has been poisoned
[WARNING: This post contains graphic images.]Imagine that years of drought have forced you to graze your cattle on sparse grass in an open desert landscape, far from permanent settlements.The nearest...
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The National Park Service turns 100 today — and Obama just protected 87,000...
On August 25, the US National Park Service turned a century old.To celebrate, President Barack Obama designated 87,500 acres of land in Maine as protected territory, creating the Katahdin Woods and...
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A startup founded by 2 college friends is turning mushrooms into walls — and...
Polystyrene foam — known more commonly as Styrofoam — is terrible for the environment.Not only does it take centuries to break down in soil, some of it never gets there in the first place, instead...
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Human-made climate change started twice as long ago as we thought
Widely considered to be the product of intense industrialization and expansion during the 20th and 21st centuries, human-caused climate change has actually been going on for a whole lot...
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Obama's creating the world's largest marine protected area twice the size of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama will dramatically expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii on Friday, the White House said, an action that will ban...
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We're finding more evidence that unconventional natural gas development is...
The fracking industry has been an energy success story: Natural gas prices have decreased as fracking has skyrocketed, and natural gas now produces more electricity than coal does, which has resulted...
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This abandoned Disney water park has been rotting for 15 years
When Disney River Country opened in 1976, visitors flocked to Orange County, Florida to ride the winding slides and traverse the wooden bridges.The park closed down 25 years later. After leaving the...
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A typo and a bag of kitty litter might cost US taxpayers billions in nuclear...
A typo and a bag of organic kitty litter may end up costing United States taxpayers more than $2 billion in nuclear waste cleanup, according to a new report by Ralph Vartabedian at the Los Angeles...
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There are heaps of WWII junk rusting in Greenland’s fjords — and the photos...
Hey America, you forgot a huge pile of junk in the wilderness.Abandoned by the US Air Force in 1947, Bluie East Two is one of several World War II and Cold War installations left to crumble in...
View ArticleHere's how America's 100-year-old National Park Service keeps things running
When the National Park Service was created in 1916, it ushered in a new way for people to interact with and experience nature. Today, 100 years later, the parks have maintained their historical,...
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