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Plastics and PCBs: Ocean Pollutants Causing Big Problems
More than eight million tons of plastic debris end up in our oceans every year. Present in nearly every oceanic layer, plastic garbage today accounts for nearly 80 percent of all waste found in our
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Earth Day 2019: Share Your Favorite, Coolest Nature Video
Next Monday, April 22, 2019, the world will mark its 49th Earth Day. The first Earth Day, held on April 22, 1970, was inspired by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, who modeled it on the antiwar protests
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This World Oceans Day Leave the Plastic at Home
The longer days and sunnier skies are signaling the arrival of beach vacation season. If you, like many, love to spend time by the ocean, it’s time to appreciate all that our oceans do for
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Plastic Straws Sent Packing from Scotland and Seattle
There’s a famous, one-word line in the 1967 movie The Graduate, when a well-meaning man advises a young college student, played by actor Dustin Hoffman, to think about the direction of his future. “Plastics,”
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Video: River Set on Fire in an Area with Fracking
A picture is worth a thousand words—or at least that’s the idea behind the actions of Jeremy Buckingham, a Greens Party member of the Australian Parliament. The politician recently set the Condamine River in
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Is There a New State Trend to Ban Citizen Science?
Citizen science has become an important tool for scientific research. Now, as funds for federal agencies and state natural resources departments around the country shrink, using ordinary folks to gather and record wildlife and
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Half Earth: Could Setting Aside 50 Percent of the World for Wildlife Really Work?
Although experts have been warning of an imminent sixth mass extinction for almost four years, to date most conservation appeals for battling the crisis have been, at best, attempts to stem the tide. None
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It’s Earth Day 2014: What Will Earth Day 2064 Look Like?
It’s been 44 years since Wisconsin’s—as this Wisconsinite is proud to say—Senator Gaylord Nelson inspired the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Modeled on the antiwar protests of the late 1960s, the original Earth
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