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Financial Fix: Great Britain Coal Use Falls With Carbon Tax

Apr 30, 2020 06:30AM

A tax on carbon dioxide emissions in Great Britain has led to the proportion of electricity generated from coal falling from 40 percent to 3 percent over six years.

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Soot Cities: Alaska Battles Air Pollution

Jan 31, 2020 07:30AM

Alaska, which has some of the most pristine environments in the U.S., also has some of the worst air quality in its cities.

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Green Horizons: A Billion Trees in Eight Years

Jan 31, 2020 07:30AM

Toronto startup Flash Forest is using aerial drones to plant trees 10 times faster than human planters with a goal of 1 billion trees by 2028.

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Raising Environmentalists: Teachers Prep Kids for the Future

Dec 30, 2019 07:30AM

Educators are using hands-on lessons to get K-12 students not only interested in the world’s environmental priorities, but also actively participating in solutions.

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Volunteer at Black Canyon Heritage Park

Sep 30, 2019 01:18PM

Black Canyon Heritage Park and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Agua Fria National Monument are hosting a National Public Lands Day at the park on Saturday, October 5, from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

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Humanitarian Plea: Environmental Destruction Tapped as War Crime

Sep 30, 2019 06:30AM

A group of 24 scientists is urging that environmental destruction in conflict zones be treated as war crimes by establishing a new protocol in the Geneva Conventions.

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Runoff Results: Gulf Dead Zone Keeps Growing

Sep 30, 2019 06:30AM

Agricultural fertilizer runoffs from the Midwest are resulting in an algae-choked “dead zone” the size of Massachusetts at the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico.

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