Category: environment
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Preventing Overfishing in the Arctic
The Atlantic A consortium of countries are meeting in Iceland, where they hope to strike a deal that protects the newly accessible ecosystem The Arctic Ocean has long been the least accessible of the world’s major oceans. But as climate change warms the Arctic twice as fast as anywhere else, the thick sea ice that…
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Cities beat the heat
NATURE — Rising temperatures are threatening urban areas, but efforts to cool them may not work as planned.
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A root of change
BRACING FOR IMPACT — The harvest of wild American ginseng root has been a part of North American culture for 300 years, but this tradition is in peril. Is it possible to save both a species and a pastime?
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Dust Bowl Unrivaled
Nature Atmospheric conditions and human actions combined to drive the 1930s megadrought Farms failed and livestock starved in the central United States during the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s. The event was not just the region’s worst dry spell in modern memory — it was the worst in North America over the past millennium,…
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Greenland’s Disappearing Glaciers—A Tale of Fire and Ice
PBS-NOVA — Jason Box, a glaciologist who grew up in Colorado, watched the High Park wildfire disaster play out on television at LaGuardia Airport, waiting for a flight that would take him to Greenland. He suddenly had a thought: Could soot from the wildfires melt Greenland’s ice sheet?