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A Nobel for Sweden's Greta Thunberg? A tough decision for the prize committee.
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg's shaming of world leaders and air travelers over climate change has won her millions of admirers and attracted many new followers to her cause. But it just might cost...
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Can you go plastic free? This London family did.
Philippa Robb reaches into a kitchen cupboard in her west London home and pulls out an old yogurt container.“Should we bring this one for cheese?” she asked her 16-year-old son, Haydn Robb Harries....
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How did teen climate activist Greta Thunberg rise to fame so quickly?
In just 14 months, Greta Thunberg has gone from a lone schoolgirl striking outside the Swedish parliament to an international celebrity.The favorite to win Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize has inspired...
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A psychotherapist explains why some adults are reacting badly to young...
Young climate strikers I spoke to recently are confused and distressed about the things adults are doing. It’s not just inaction during the worsening climate crisis that bothers them, but the...
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Scientists rush to rescue sea turtles threatened by mysterious Brazil oil spill
Crude oil has been washing up on the coast of the Brazilian northeast for over a month, leaving more than 150 of Brazil’s postcard-perfect beaches covered in thick, sludgy black patches. The origin of...
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Ukrainian eyeglasses market brings pains of deindustrialization into focus
Standing between the racks of knock-off Ray-Ban and Gucci sunglasses, Vladimir Borsch guards boxes of retro-looking metal and plastic eyeglass frames that were produced across the street in the 1980s...
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You’re not being fleeced: This carbon-negative sweater comes with sheep included
With fall weather setting in, it's the perfect time to cozy up in a favorite sweater. But does your woolen pullover come with a sheep included? It might if it's from English company Sheep Inc., which...
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Exxon and oil sands go on trial in New York climate fraud case
In late 2013, ExxonMobil faced increasing pressure from investors to disclose more about the risks the company faced as governments began limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Of the many costs climate...
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Meet the fastest ants in the world: Saharan silver ants
You remember Atom Ant? Not Adam Ant, the new wave rocker — Atom Ant, the cartoon character. Atom Ant was fast, but is he as fast as the silver ants of the Sahara?In the deserts of the northern Sahara,...
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Another rising cost of climate change: PG&E's blackouts, now needed to...
With wildfires forcing evacuations in the Los Angeles hills and Sonoma County, and parts of California under an "extreme red flag warning" from the winds, the state's largest electric utility triggered...
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Remember 'reduce, reuse, recycle'? Humans actually are reducing, expert says.
People have come to expect that as our economy grows, so does our use of resources — a trend many have been worried about since the environmental movement began. Intense concern about whether the Earth...
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Nov. 4 is the first day Trump can legally leave the Paris Accord
On Monday, the White House is likely to be one step closer to delivering on a major campaign promise of removing the United States from the 2015 Paris climate change accord. In June 2017, just five...
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'The largest YouTube collaboration ever' wants to plant 20 million trees
On October 25, in what’s being called the largest YouTube collaboration of all time, hundreds of YouTubers from around the world came together and used their combined influence to send a message on the...
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California is living America's dystopian future
The Golden State is on fire, which means that an idea of American utopia is on fire, too.Utopias are the good places of our imagination, while dystopias are the places where everything goes terribly...
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The Paris climate problem: A dangerous lack of urgency
While nearly all of the world's countries have pledged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, the reductions they're planning in the short term — over the next 10 years — aren't nearly enough, leading...
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New ethane cracker factories raise climate change and pollution concerns
Plastic is not just a problem for overwhelmed landfills or the marine life that ingest it. Plastic is also a huge contributor to carbon emissions, climate change and toxic pollution. But if some of the...
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Evangelicals in Brazil see abuse of God's earth as a sin — but will they...
When the Brazilian city of São Paulo abruptly went dark at midday on Aug. 19, there was talk of the Apocalypse — not all of it in jest.In fact, meteorologists explained, unusual wind patterns had...
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Emperor Penguins could march to extinction if nations fail to halt climate...
The concept of a canary in a coal mine– a sensitive species that provides an alert to danger – originated with British miners, who carried actual canaries underground through the mid-1980s to detect...
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In Borneo, healthy people equals healthy forests
Gunung Palung National Park on the island of Borneo is home to diverse species found nowhere else and is beloved by the people who live on the Indonesian island. But like many people who live near...
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Small hydropower plants threaten Montenegro's last free-flowing rivers in a...
In a tiny wooden lodge, in a misty valley in Montenegro, six locals puff away on homemade cigarettes and sip the country’s traditional plum brandy at 11:15 a.m.There are six glasses on the small table,...
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