All posts tagged with environment
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-(Natural News) The trouble with a dogmatic belief in global warming is that it tends to color the believer’s view of every situation involving the environment. When hurricanes strike, it must be global warming; when there’s a flood somewhere, it must be global warming; when a species becomes extinct, it must be global warming. And […]
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-(Natural News) In recent years, more and more cities have adopted green initiatives to combat the effects of massive urbanization on the environment. These green initiatives employ projects such as planting more trees along streets and city parks, among others. However, a recent study published in PLOS ONE revealed that urban trees are different from trees growing […]
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-(Natural News) A pair of researchers may have found a way to predict how strong an earthquake will be. Diego Melgar from the University of Oregon and Gavin Hayes from the National Earthquake Information Center of the US Geological Survey (USGS) analyzed and compared information between various databases and GPS-gathered intel. Through this, they pinpointed a specific […]
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-(Natural News) Hundreds of thousands of golf balls have littered the seabed off the coast of California. First discovered by a teenager, the toxic plastic trash is now getting cleaned up slowly but surely by concerned citizens. Alex Weber stumbled across the pollutants during a snorkeling trip in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 2017. She and her […]
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-(Natural News) With the incredibly hectic pace of modern life it can be difficult to take the time to stop and smell the roses. Surrounded as we are by electronic and other man-made devices, we sometimes forget that there are incredibly complex natural systems all around us that quietly just go about doing their work […]
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-(Natural News) Plastic pollution in the ocean has claimed yet another marine animal as a victim – and in a particularly disturbing way. Gruesome images of a dead dolphin on a beach in Cornwall, U.K. reminded everyone of the deadly threat posed by plastic trash to marine life. Cornish local Simon Heester called in the […]
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-(Natural News) Thermoelectric power plants provide a third of America’s electrical generation, and the combination of aging technologies, droughts, and strict environmental regulations is likely to sharply reduce the energy output. To prevent this, researchers recommend replacing the once-through cooling systems of the aging power plants with drought-resistant recirculating models. Their study countered the calls by […]
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-(Natural News) If you want to live a healthy and sustainable life, try switching to a low-meat diet. Doing this could make a huge impact not only on your health but also the environment. Modern animal agriculture is destroying the earth. Most of the world’s meat, eggs, and dairy are produced in factory farms. The […]
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-(Natural News) Great news for elephants around the world: Poaching rates have been declining since 2011. But before we celebrate, conservationists point out that more work needs to be done to ensure their long-term survival. In 2011, more than 10 percent of Africa’s elephants were killed due to poaching. In 2017, that number decreased massively to […]
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-(Natural News) Some waterfalls didn’t need any help from an earthquake or a similarly powerful event to be born. They achieved their form after thousands of years of abrading the rocks that made up their riverbeds. A waterfall grabs the attention of anyone in its general vicinity. It marks the speed at which the landscape […]
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