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Biodiversity highest on Indigenous-managed lands
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Les glaces de l'Arctique pourraient disparaître l'été malgré l'accord de Paris
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Community action and climate change
So why did rural Nebraska become the centre of the KXL debate? The original KXL route traversed through the ecologically sensitive Nebraskan Sandhills, which...
Oil-sands operators bet on local advantage as U.S. partners flee.
Now that multinational energy producers have sold their stakes in Canada’s oil sands, local companies are hatching plans to make some real changes.
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Slight climate shifts can affect optimum water use in plant communities
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A record number of Americans watched the 2017 solar eclipse — and sought science...
The 2017 total solar eclipse spurred a flurry of interest about solar eclipses, according to the final report of a survey led by the...
Increasing hurricane intensity around Bermuda linked to rising ocean temperatures
New research shows that hurricane maximum wind speeds in the subtropical Atlantic around Bermuda have more than doubled on average over the last 60...
Pruitt's political friends come to lobby.
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Gorillas, rhinos, lions and more will soon become extinct without immediate action
A report by 43 wildlife experts warns that without changes now, many of Earth's most iconic species will be lost forever.
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