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Animal instincts: Can we harness human nature to do good for the world?
People are predisposed to wander, but travel has hidden environmental price tags. Human ecologist Bill Durham talks about using our wanderlust to connect people with the planet.
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Climate change causes monster patch of microscopic plants in the Arctic
There aren’t supposed to be microscopic plants called phytoplankton blooming in the Arctic right now — usually that doesn’t happen until after the ice melts in the summer, i.e. months from now. But a research team has just discovered a huge, 60-mile-long, three-foot-thick slick of phytoplankton where no phytoplankton should be. It was “like finding […]
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Hot town, May in the cities
Basically every big city in America was hotter during May 2012 than any May prior. At least according to scientific instruments.
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New York’s roofscape gets climate makeover [VIDEOS]
Witness the evolution of New York City’s billion-square-foot roofscape in the face of climate change.
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World Oceans Day: Don’t mess with them or they’ll mess with you
(They'll mess with you anway, of course.) In the news: California sets aside protected areas; Oregon has an unexpected visitor; the Gulf Coast is warned about the inevitable.
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U.N. report: ‘Oh, man.’
This is not a direct quote. But we hope you like water pollution and hot, unbreathable air.
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Horseshoe crabs have weird, bright blue blood
Horseshoe crabs have bright blue blood. They are like aliens. (Does this one not look like a dead alien?) Nature, you are weird. Robert Krulwich explains why the crabs’ blood is so beautifully blue: Their blood kind of sloshes around in their bodies carrying oxygen to various organs, as our blood does. Our blood is […]
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Climate change’s worst enemy is its first victim: The city
A group of 58 cities are working together to develop thousands of tools to address climate change. They'd better.
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The top five things voters need to know about conservatives and climate change
There's been a recent surge of stories about conservatives and climate change in the mainstream media. But oddly, none of them tell voters what they most need to know on the subject. It's time for a primer.
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Old photographs found in basement help scientists unravel warming patterns
While cleaning out a basement at the National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark, researchers found a box full of glass photo plates from a 1930s expedition to Greenland. The forgotten photos showed detailed aerial and ground-level pictures of 132 Greenland glaciers — which allowed scientists to study how the glaciers changed over a much longer period […]