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It Turns Out Earth Has Seven Times as Many Trees as Previously Thought

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers describe using a combination of satellite imaging, boots on the ground trees-counting, and forest inventor...

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Environment

This Week in Storms: Typhoon Kila, Sudanese Dust, Hurricane Fred

Weather prediction involves a lot of probabilities (and no certainties) and informed guesses, but weather observation gets better every year. In part we can thank NASA's Te...

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Environment

Tens of Thousands of Stranded Walruses Are Once Again Gathering in Alaska

With the sea ice where they rest and hunt melted away, thousands of walruses have once again flooded the shoreline near the village of Point Lay, Alaska. The massings, whic...

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Environment

These Ecuadorians Want to Seize Chevron's Canadian Assets

The villagers are trying to collect on a nearly $10 billion judgement by Ecuador's courts against Chevron, claiming they suffer from lingering health problems from toxic oi...

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Environment

The UN Says Gaza Could Be Uninhabitable in Less Than Five Years

The findings of the UN's Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) echoed an earlier assessment made by the UN in 2011, which determined that Gaza would not be livable b...

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Environment

The Ten-Year Mission To Study All The Ways The Arctic Is Doomed

Called the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE for short, the large-scale study will combine on-the-ground field studies as well as data from remote sensors?su...

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Environment

How Climate Change Impacts Women The Most

The United Nations will finalize in September its Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to eliminate poverty while reducing humanity's environmental discussion, includin...

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Gender

How Climate Change Impacts Women The Most

The United Nations will finalize in September its Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to eliminate poverty while reducing humanity’s environmental discussion, in...

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Sustainable Development

Plastic Will Be Inside Nearly Every Seabird On Earth By 2050

Oceans are the world’s forgotten landfill, and seabirds are turning into flying garbage cans. By 2050, 99 percent of all seabird species will be contaminated by the p...

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Environment

Here's Why Brushing Your Teeth Is Bad For The Oceans.

The tiny exfoliating "microbeads" that millions of people slather onto their faces every morning are having a dire effect on the marine ecosystems, according to a new resea...

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