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Routing runoff contaminated with road salts to stormwater ponds actually resulted in plumes of highly contaminated groundwater moving from the ponds to streams, report...
Lombok villagers beat poverty with tortilla chips and mangroves.
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LOMBOK, Indonesia, May 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - J ust over three years ago, Herniati had never heard of tortilla chips,...
Support for tidal energy is high among Washington residents
A new study found that people who believe climate change is a problem and see economic, environmental and/or social benefits to using tidal energy...
This machine just started sucking CO2 out of the air to save us from...
Sitting on top of a waste incineration facility near Zurich, a new carbon capture plant is now sucking CO2 out of the air to...
To fight climate change, heal the ground.
May 31, 2017Mike McPhateCALIFORNIA TODAYGood morning.(Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.)The climate change fight has focused largely on cutting emissions.But...
National Geographic emerging explorer M Jackson and the shifting story of humans and ice.
Photo by Jill Schneider
This post is part of an ongoing series of interviews with the 2017 class of National Geographic Emerging Explorers.Geographer and glaciologist...
Possible correlation shown between the partial meltdown at TMI and thyroid cancers
For the first time, scientists have shown a possible correlation between the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and thyroid...
Mining for answers on abandoned mines
In the western United States 160,000 abandoned mines contaminate soils in the region. Researchers hope to solve this problem with biochar, a charcoal-like substance...
Outnumbered and on others’ turf, misfits sometimes thrive
Evolutionary biologists have long assumed that when an individual of a species wanders into a different environment than it is adapted to, it will...
Restored ocean will alleviate poverty, provide jobs, and improve health, finds report
With climate change and social inequity addressed, restoring the ocean will help alleviate poverty, provide livelihoods, and improve the health of millions around the...
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