Category Archives: Environment

Energy, Environment, Technology

Power Up Your Cross-Country American Road Trip with an Electric Vehicle

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We Americans love our long-distance road trips. So much so that it’s practically a rite of passage for people of every background. We’ve memorialized these adventures through literary works like Steinbeck’s Travels with Charlie and through countless films like Easy Rider and Lost in America.

Yet, today’s road-trippers are more eco-minded than ever- conscientious about the environmental toll brought about by traditional petroleum-fueled cars.

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Climate, Environment, People

Why Environmental Damage Is Also Harming Our Veterans

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Typically, environmental causes are associated with left-leaning politics, and pro-military action is publicly associated with the right. However, a large number of veterans are liberals or are willing to embrace bipartisanship when it comes to sustainability. Thus, some veterans are speaking up about environmental damage.

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Animals, Biology, Climate, Environment, Global Warming, Life on Earth, Oceans, Videos

Sea creatures store carbon in the ocean – could protecting them help slow climate change?

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Heidi Pearson, University of Alaska Southeast

As the prospect of catastrophic effects from climate change becomes increasingly likely, a search is on for innovative ways to reduce the risks. One potentially powerful and low-cost strategy is to recognize and protect natural carbon sinks – places and processes that store carbon, keeping it out of Earth’s atmosphere.

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Environment, People

5 Reasons To Put More Emphasis On Ecology in Your Workspace

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By Connie Benton

It’s easy to see the benefits of going green if you love nature. But what if you couldn’t care less about the whales, the sea turtles, and whatever species the activists want to save next?

There are still plenty of reasons for you to make your office eco-friendly. Here are five of them.

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Animals, Climate, Environment, Global Warming, Life on Earth

Tragic tale of a ‘man-eating’ tigress tells us so much about the climate crisis

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Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford

The way that we live on Earth is causing an unprecedented acceleration in species extinction. Now, more than half a million species “have insufficient habitat for long-term survival” and are likely to go extinct unless their natural environments are restored. But we are already seeing major problems from this intrusion, not least through an increase in human-animal conflict.

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Environment, Videos

Brasilian couple plants 2 million trees, creates a new forest

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In the early 2000s, famed Brasilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia decided to rebuild their deserted piece of land of 600 hectares in Aimorés, Brazil. They planted more than 2 million tree saplings in 18 years.

And the result is amazing!They created a new forest, and now, the site has 293 plant species, 172 bird species and 33 animal species, some of which were on the verge of extinction.

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