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Meet the guy swimming through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Ben Lecomte and his team are swimming through one of the most cluttered sections of the ocean in the world to raise awareness about marine plastic pollution
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Stop building a spaceship to Mars and just plant some damn trees
If we filled all the extra space on the planet with trees, we could cut carbon by about 25 percent (in theory).
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150 million trees died in California’s drought, and worse is to come
A new study suggests more bad news for California's trees.
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Watch out, Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This ocean cleanup device MIGHT work this time.
An 18 year old whiz kind said he'd clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 6 years and $20 million later, he's still trying
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Those honeybees you’re so worried about? They’re killing off wild bee species.
A new study shows that viruses infecting domestic honeybees are spreading to wild pollinators.
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Desalination plants are here, but they’re not solving the water crisis yet
Processing saltwater is an increasingly viable freshwater source, but it's still a pricey process -- for our wallets and for the environment.
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Warmer waters mess with the Northeast’s cod-given right to fish
Fishing as Maine fishermen know it will likely have to undergo big changes due to a warmer climate.
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Cold War-era spy satellites have a lot to tell us about the changing climate
A new study uses four decades of de-classified data to track shrinking Himalayan ice.
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Climate change could ruin archeological sites before we get the chance to study them
Sea-level rise isn’t just threatening our future; it’s erasing our past.
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Boaty McBoatface makes huge discovery about sea-level rise on maiden voyage
The U.K. research sub's name may be funny, but its job is serious.
