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Recycling IQ: Take a Quiz to Help the Planet

Apr 30, 2018 08:17AM

Is this item trash, garbage or recyclable? As important as recycling is, it can sometimes be confusing. A short quiz offers answers to help sort out discards.

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‘Sink’ Setback: Tropical Forests Releasing Excess Carbon

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

Logging, drought and wildfires may be turning forests in Africa, Asia and Latin America into carbon emitters rather than absorbers.

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Distributed Power: Energy Users Control Own Supplies

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

Across the U.S., energy users of all sizes are taking control of their power supply and relieving stress from the grid.

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Clear Gain: Window-Like Solar Cells Could Power 40 Percent of U.S. Needs

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

Scientists have developed a transparent, luminescent solar concentrator that looks like clear glass that could potentially supply two-fifths of U.S. energy needs.

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Scientists’ Security: France Welcomes Beleaguered Climate Researchers

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

To counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-science stance, French President Emmanuel Macron has awarded 18 climate scientists from the U.S. and elsewhere millions of euros to relocate to France to “Make Our Planet Great Again.”

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Transforming Plastics: Mobile Trashpresso Turns Trash into Tiles

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

A British company has invented a solar-powered, onsite mini-recycling plant that transforms plastic waste into usable architectural tiles.

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Chinese Chokepoint: U.S. Waste Paper Turned Away

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

China’s recyclable processors have given notice they will accept only paper waste uncontaminated by garbage, which has become a mountainous problem for many U.S. recycling companies.

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Top Polluters: Just 100 Companies Emit Most Global Emissions

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

New research shows that a 100 fossil-fuel producers globally are responsible for 71 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions during the last 30 years.

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Waxworm Wonders: Caterpillars Offer Clues to Plastic Cleanup

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

Bacteria found in waxworms can digest plastic in mere weeks or months, far outperforming other plastic decomposition processes requiring 10 to 1,000 years.

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We Need Trees: Arbor Day More Vital Now than Ever

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

With the loss of 73.4 million acres of tree cover globally in 2016, annual tree-planting programs like Arbor Day in the U.S. and more massive tree-planting programs like those in Brazil, India and New Zealand are sorely needed.

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Sway Congress: Save Wild Horses Campaign Update

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

The Trump Administration’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget again calls on Congress to lift long-standing prohibitions on the destruction and slaughter of wild horses and burros.

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