A thoughtfully curated collection of articles on innovative solutions, brought together to inspire and inform.
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Three billion birds lost
Bird losses over the last 50 years have been devastating for hundreds of species, affecting both backyard songbirds and long-distance migrants. Given these losses, birds need us now more than ever. We can all help, and making a difference is probably easier than you think…
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Pollution Doesn’t Stand a Chance Against This Living Technology
An early experiment at a city landfill showed how algae and sunlight can repair environmental damage.
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A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
Natalie Wolchover writes about physicists’ effort to find laws that explain the physical world and the nature of the universe.
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Lara Adler on Environmental Toxins and Chronic Disease
Lara Adler on Environmental Toxins and Chronic Disease. You know, for a lot of us this new landscape is not leading towards positive health outcomes. So I look at, you know, all of this sort of unchecked use of synthetic materials in a commerce as this like the largest human experiment
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A Growing Number of Ranchers are Turning to Sustainable Grazing
Here’s how one cattle ranching family in South Dakota restored a prairie, wildlife habitat, and a creek.
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France Adopts National Light Pollution Policy Among Most Progressive In The World
A new law came into effect in France on the first day of 2019 that sets an important standard in western Europe for the protection of nighttime darkness.
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Deploy the space harpoon
The space harpoon is part of the RemoveDEBRIS project, a multi-organization European effort to create and test methods of reducing space debris. There are thousands of little pieces of who knows what clogging up our orbital neighborhood, ranging in size from microscopic to potentially catastrophic.
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How a Love of Flowers Helped Charles Darwin Validate Natural Selection
Though his voyage to the Galapagos and his work with finches dominate the narrative of the famed naturalist, he was, at heart, a botanist
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Just for fun: Tour alien worlds
Some fun multimedia from NASA, including (free) Exoplanet Travel Bureau posters, cool 360-degree visualizations, and a journey into the life and death of planetary system.
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2018 was the fourth hottest year on record
NASA and NOAA data show that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, while the hottest is 2016. Global surface temperature records go back nearly 140 years. During that time, nine of the 10 hottest years occurred between 2005 and 2018.
