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Environment
Where will Earth’s continents go next?
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Climate Change
How to do laundry the green way
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Climate Change
Disastrous spring floods loom for half of the United States
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Climate Change
Here’s how many trees are required to cool a city street
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Climate Change
Tree rings contain secrets from the forest
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Climate Change
NASA is using space lasers to measure trees on Earth
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Environment
How to actually recycle
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Climate Change
Andrew Wheeler is officially the head of the EPA
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Climate Change
The Great Lakes may be souring just like our oceans
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Environment
Love the taste of whiskey? Thank an oak tree
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Climate Change
Thank a cloud today
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Climate Change
‘Mermaid tears’ are killing our oceans
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Climate Change