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Dead bodies are emerging from Mount Everest's melting glaciers

With a warming climate, the remains of unlucky mountaineers are beginning to rise from the ice.




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New York's "radical traffic experiment" is based on a very successful Toronto prototype

What happens when you restrict cars? Transit use, cycling and walking increase dramatically.




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Why are transit riders who jump fares treated so much more harshly than drivers who steal parking spaces?

It's time for some fareness.




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Streetfilms and a sock puppet ride the 14th Street Busway

Where have I seen this movie before?




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A remarkable video of the ever elusive snow leopard

Ever wonder what it would look like to be in the maw of a snow leopard? Wonder no more.




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Wildlife is thriving in Fukushima evacuation zones (video)

A lesson in what happens when the humans disappear.




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7 things to know about the amazing fruit bat quarters

New quarters are coming and they star FRUIT BATS!




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The secret language of crickets (video)

What's in a cricket's song? And how do they do it?




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Bumble bees could vanish forever within a few decades

The most important pollinators on the planet are disappearing in areas where temperatures are getting hotter.




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Cute new snail named after Greta Thunberg

The Swedish activist is 'delighted' that the new-to-science species will bear her name.




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Sweden's famous white moose in all his mystical glory

When the rare leucistic moose appeared before his camera, photographer Anders Tedeholm captured the magic.




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Free-range meat can be worse for the planet than long-haul flights

George Monbiot wades into the meat-and-climate debate by explaining how 'ethically' raised meat is actually worse for the planet than those raised in confined spaces. It leaves omnivores in an awkward position.




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Red meat may be taxed in Denmark to fight climate change

Climate change has become an ethical issue in the eyes of the Danish Council for Ethics, which suggested last week that the government consider a tax on beef, and eventually all foods depending on climate impact.




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Global treaty signed to ban HFC refrigerants

This is a very big deal, but just the first of many more bigger and harder deals that we need.




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Nobody is taking away your air conditioner; there are lots of alternatives to HFCs

Only in America are they hard to find. How does that happen?




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The "Stopping EPA Overreach Act" redefines what a pollutant is and stops regulation of greenhouse gases

This is beyond climate denial, it's science denial




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How do we stop Antarctica from melting?

It's either billions of dollars in polar engineering, a rapid cut in emissions now, or an all-of-the-above strategy.




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Cutting out meat and dairy is the best thing you can do for the planet

Huge new study reveals that going vegan offers far greater benefits than quitting flying or driving an electric car.




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Our soaring love of meat is bad news for the planet

The average amount of meat consumed per person globally has nearly doubled in the past 50 years, a trend with terrible consequences for environment, scientists warn.




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What flat-earthers have got right

A lot of people believe the Earth is flat. It's silly ... or is it?




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What is the impact of meat on climate?

A comprehensive look at why it is a problem, and who is fighting change.




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Heat pumps may soon be charged with propane instead of greenhouse gases

Not just for barbecues, some companies are switching over completely.




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Climate change is bad for world peace

A study from Stanford University reveals the interconnectedness of politics and the environment.




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Pesticidal Proteins (Bt) From GM Corn Plants Are Now Common In Midwest Streams

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land




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Asian Carp Study Largest Since Reversal of Chicago River

This $2 million project, funded mostly with private money, is billed as the most comprehensive look at the Chicago waterway system since the reversal of the Chicago River more than 100 years ago. This




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Asian Carp Almost Migrate from U.S. to Canada, in a Big Truck

How will invasive Asian carp enter the Great Lakes? Via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, maybe another flood? They almost made it via a semi-tractor trailer crossing the Ambassador Bridge from the U.S. to Canada. The




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Sword-Swinging Ninjas On Skis Go After Asian Carp (Video)

Asian carp, meet your worst nightmare. Not poison. Not an electric barrier, or a predator from your native land. No, this is good ol' American ingenuity. With a touch of Ted Nugent, or maybe Chuck Norris. People dressed in spiked body armor with




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Feds Hiring Unemployed for Great Lakes Cleanup

Who says we have to choose between jobs and the environment? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is starting a sort of Public Works program for the Great Lakes --- prioritizing funding for restoration projects that put the




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Invasive? Bloody Red Shrimp Are Supper for Great Lakes Fish

Bloody red shrimp are invasive, but yummy for some native Great Lakes fish. A first-time find by Canadian researchers.




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New Flame Retardants as Bad as Old Flame Retardants

Flame retardants build up in the DNA of Great Lakes fish. Not cool.




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Too Far? New Plan to Separate Basins, Stop Asian Carp, Costs Billions (Video)

Great Lakes residents would be paying this off for 47 years ... but reaping the benefits for just as long.




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SOM Architects Call for a 100 Year Vision for the Great Lakes

The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale




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Great Lakes days away from record ice cover

This long, cold winter has created the most ice cover on the Great Lakes in 20 years—and with ice cover usually at its peak in mid-March, there's still time for records to be broken.




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Illinois passes first microbead ban in the world

Finally one state is putting a stop to the "exfoliocean." Hopefully others will follow its lead, forcing companies to adopt eco-friendly alternatives.




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The most contaminated birds on the planet: Michigan's bald eagles are full of illegal flame retardants

Well, at least the most iconic animal in the United States won't catch on fire too easily...




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Michigan bans bans on plastic bags, takeout food containers, styrofoam cups and just about anything else

Restaurants win; Great Lakes lose.




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Are the Great Lakes under threat from thirsty Southwestern American states?

Do international treaties mean anything when America needs fresh water?




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Europe is warming faster than climate models projected

More than 90 percent of weather stations studied showed the climate was warming, a percentage too high to purely be from natural climate variability, say researchers




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Meat and plastic sales are slowly dropping, survey finds

As environmental awareness spreads, shoppers are making different choices.




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Children file complaint of rights violation over climate crisis

Delivered to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the group of 16 alleges that climate crisis inaction constitutes a violation of child rights.




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Before 1965, low CO2 levels were steady for 2.5 million years

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.




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'Existential' is the Word of the Year for 2019

Dictionary.com picks the perfect word for our dystopian future!




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Antarctic peninsula melting at fastest rate in 1,000 years

By analyzing a 364-meter ice core, researchers have been able to go back in time and track the freezing and melting cycles of Antarctica's peninsula.




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Yeti robot scans polar ice to warn researchers of dangerous crevasses

The autonomous robot allows scientists to more safely study polar enviroments and also collects valuable information on ice conditions for climate research.




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Satellite-connected Raspberry Pi cameras allows for real-time monitoring of Antarctic penguins

Scientists will be able to easier monitor the population of penguins, thanks to a high-tech solar-powered remote camera setup.




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Antarctica loses about 160,000,000,000 tonnes of ice... every year

A gigatonne of ice here, a gigatonne of ice there... Soon enough we're talking about a meaningful quantity!




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It was too good to last: Japan to step up efforts to resume whale hunting near Antarctica

Two steps forward, one step back for Japan. The rest of the world has moved on from whaling, why couldn't they do too?




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The ozone hole over Antarctica is about the size of NORTH-AMERICA right now

We don't hear about the ozone layer as much as we used to anymore, but that doesn't mean that the problem has been solved.




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A bird's eye view of the first ever 'zero emission' scientific station in Antarctica

This looks a bit like the Hoth rebel station in Return of the Jedi...




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Scott's 103 year old prefab cabin in Antarctica is lovingly restored

After ten years of work, the Antarctic Heritage Trust has done an amazing job of restoring and preserving.