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The History of the National Park Service

As a former park ranger, I’ve been looking forward to this date for 20 years.

Moderately good news: our ecological footprint doesn't grow as fast as our population

The bad news is that the footprint is increasing fastest in the areas with the greatest biodiversity.

Sea Shepherd will continue to disrupt Japanese whaling ships, despite the US ruling they shouldn't

Whales > Judges.

Antarctic 'living sensors' indicate global warming affecting ocean circulation

The consequences are not known at the moment.

Why the first, tiny offshore wind farm in the U.S. is a huge step forward

These five turbines signal a change through out the country.

Stanford scientists map poverty... from outer space

Researchers have developed a method to identify impoverished areas using free information from satellite imagery.

At 1075 years old, this is Europe's oldest inhabitant

A Bosnian Pine from Greece has been dated to be at least 1075 years old, making it the oldest living thing in Europe.

People are dumping goldfish into an Australian river and they're growing huge -- by destroying the ecosystem

Tank'em, don't dump'em.

Finland capital Helsinki starts driverless bus pilot

If you thought driverless cars are part of a distant past, think again.

New dolphin species found in ... museum collection

Museum collections are riddled with valuable specimens.

Fish urine keeps corals healthy, but we're taking all the fish out of the water

Does this mean I have to pee in the pool now?

This app lets you buy leftover food from UK restaurants - and it's really cheap

Keeping food inside our bellies instead of the bin.

Pesticides linked to massive bee die off, largest study of its kind confirms

Yet another study -- the most important so far -- finds that neonicotinoids likely wipe out bees.

By 2085 most cities in the world will be too hot to host Summer Olympic Games

The Summer Olympic Games might one day take place with air conditioning.

First peer review paper on chemtrails finds exactly what you'd expect -- it's all pseudoscience

Of course, it could just be The Government covering up. Spooky stuff.

The last ten months were the hottest on record and July was the most blazing ever

We've become very cynical. "Hottest year? Doh!"

What are abundant and sustainable fuels? “Folks, that's of course the fossil fuels,” says President of Koch-funded shill group

The Koch Brothers' rhetoric not only defies logic and facts, but the English language also.

A CEO's pay is enough to train all the company's laid-off coal miners for jobs in sustainable energy

The coal industry is tanking -- hundreds of thousands are getting fired, while execs are getting a raise. One startling study found how little it takes to retrain those laid-off.

Coral bleaching has been captured on video for the first time

They don't seem to be having a good time.

California's highways will generate electricity from cars driving over them

California will harvest freeways for electricity.

Over-consumption is more deadly to Earth's wildlife than climate change

We use so much of everything so fast that it's literally killing the planet.

Top chefs are using leftover food in Rio to feed the poor

Leftover food from the Olympic Village in Rio is being prepared by a group of international chefs and served to the poor.

Scotland just powered itself completely from wind power the entire day

High winds and a low demand on a Sunday allowed Scottish windmills to generate 106% of the country's electricity demand.

Longest-living vertebrate is a 400-year-old Greenland Shark

A groundbreaking study found a giant lurking beneath the Arctic might be the oldest living vertebrate today.

Orangutans can tell if a drink tastes good or bad just by looking at it -- once thought a 'human thing'

They're more than the simple animals we consider them to be.

A colony of bees has been discovered living in the lip of an active volcano

They face acid, lava, and ash every day.

Real extent of sea level rise obscured by 1991 massive volcano eruption

How a volcano may have hidden sea level rise all this time.

Douglas fir forests are buckling under the heat, pausing their growth altogether

Silly trees, can't they set the thermostat lower, like the rest of us?

Elon Musk's company revealed plans for a roof made of solar panels

Elon Musk has shown plenty of times in the past that he's not afraid to go a bit outside the box - or even a bit more.

Male dogs are becoming less fertile, and researchers believe it's happening to us next

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Why humpbacks are protecting other creatures from killer whales

Humpback whales may be altruistic or hateful - either way, it's a puzzling behavior.

Deadly bacteria breeding more in the oceans because of global warming

Developing countries, yet again, will be the most vulnerable in the face of such risks.

Scientists find a way to harvest green energy from grass

Garden grass could become a source of sustainable energy, a group of scientists claim.

Six million Americans are drinking water with unsafe levels of toxic chemicals

Six million Americans might be drinking water with high levels of chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems.

Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar speech raised more climate change awareness than Earth Day

DiCaprio absolutely killed it -- and we now have the numbers to prove it.

Horses owe ambling gait to a gene mutation which first appeared more than 1,000 years ago

The Vikings then spread the new breed to mainland Europe.

Great Barrier Reef rodent becomes first extinct mammal at the hand of climate change

Great Barrier Reef's only endemic mammal, the Bramble Cay melomys, is now officially extinct, scientists say.

These are the worlds most energy-efficient countries

Europe tops the list.

Climate change will make in-flight turbulence more common and take-offs more difficult

These risks will become serious in a couple of decades, but we need to act now.

We've finally discovered how birds can sleep and fly at the same time without crashing

Frigatebirds spend weeks at a time flying over oceans in search for food -- here's how they sleep during this time.

Monkeys With Smaller Testicles Scream Louder to Compensate

Loud screamers compensate for small testicles... but it works.

The last wooly mammoths may have died of thirst

Scientists tell the story of the final sad chapter in the wooly mammoth story.

England's 5 pence tax slashed 61,000 tonnes of plastic bag use per year

That adds up to....Let me do the math on this.....A whole lot of bags.

Machine learning could solve the US's police violence issue

By flagging high-risk officers, the system allows police departments to limit the chance for violent events.

Chernobyl is to become the world's largest solar power plant

This huge area will finally produce energy -- 30 years after the meltdown.

The City of London Corporation bans leasing or purchasing diesel vehicles for its businesses

The organization takes improving air quality "extremely seriously," and has thus decided to clamp down on diesel vehicles.

World's first mass extinction might have been caused by animals

Looks like it's not always asteroids.

Crows are the first non-human animals we know of that employ tools to carry objects

Who you callin' bird brain?

Global warming causes plants and soils to 'burp' more CO2

A long-standing assumption that as the planet warms, the biosphere releases more CO2 in a positive feedback loop was confirmed by researchers.

Photosynthetic solar cell turns carbon dioxide and sunlight into fuel

Fossil fuels could soon be a thing of the past.

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