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Chernobyl, three decades on
Posted: April 26, 2016It was 30 years ago that a meltdown at the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station in the former Soviet Union released radioactive contaminants into the surroundings in northern Ukraine….
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The ohia tree is in trouble
Posted: April 25, 2016The ʻohiʻa is Hawaii’s iconic tree, a keystone species that maintains healthy watersheds and provides habitat for numerous endangered birds. But a virulent fungal disease, possibly related to a warmer,…
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Do you live in one of America's worst cities for air pollution?
Posted: April 25, 2016The American Lung Association has released its annual “State of the Air” report and its findings are troubling. Most Americans live in counties with air pollution so bad that it…
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Commercial leases go green
Posted: April 1, 2016New opportunities to fight climate change in these properties are coming from an unlikely source: the commercial property lease. A new study finds that in 2009, only 15% of all…
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Going vegetarian could save emissions and prevent 8 million deaths a year
Posted: March 31, 2016Oxford researchers have quantified the benefits of the world becoming vegetarian, writes Marco Springmann. Their study shows that simple changes – like moving to diets low in meat and high…
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Snowshoe hare range moving northward following retreating snow cover
Posted: March 31, 2016If there is an animal emblematic of the northern winter, it is the snowshoe hare.A forest dweller, the snowshoe hare is named for its big feet, which allow it to…
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Severe water stress likely in Asia by 2050
Posted: March 30, 2016Economic and population growth on top of climate change could lead to serious water shortages across a broad swath of Asia by the year 2050, a newly published study by…
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Should we be feeding food waste to livestock?
Posted: March 30, 2016Food waste is a huge global problem. About a third of the food produced globally for human consumption, approximately 1.3 billion tons each year, is wasted or lost, according to the U.N….
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Are we what we eat?
Posted: March 29, 2016In a new evolutionary proof of the old adage, 'we are what we eat', Cornell University scientists have found tantalizing evidence that a vegetarian diet has led to a mutation…
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Shrinking Arctic ice is impacting Greenland melting
Posted: March 29, 2016Vanishing Arctic sea ice. Dogged weather systems over Greenland. Far-flung surface ice melting on the massive island. 'Blocking-high' pressure systems spawn most of the warming that melts Greenland surface ice, Rutgers…
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