Tag Archives: Sustainability
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How New York City Is Reclaiming Its Piers
As I bike the 4.5-mile-long Hudson River Park hugging the western edge of Manhattan, it’s [...]
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Watch These Two Videos and You Will Feel More Hopeful About the Future of Tropical Forests
Happy Earth Day 2021! Hillary Hughes, Panamanian actress, visits the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Agua [...]
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Watch What Happens When A Coral Reef Can’t Get Enough Oxygen
From the surface, the havoc caused on a coral reef by a layer of low-oxygen [...]
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Are Floating Cities a Real Possibility?
With the world’s population nearing 7.9 billion, and estimates projecting that it will reach 9.7 [...]
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Is Seaweed the Next Big Alternative to Meat?
When vertebrates first heaved themselves out of the sea some 390 million years ago, terrestrial [...]
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The Dugong, a Huggable, Seagrass-Loving Sea Cow, Has a New Best Friend: Drones
To see a dugong is to want to hug a dugong, with its round body, [...]
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Why Marshlands Are the Perfect Lab for Studying Climate Change
The tempest began at 7 o’clock one morning this past June. It hadn’t rained for days, [...]
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How Dairy Farmers Are Turning Manure Into Money
The Connecticut River cuts between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the White Mountains of [...]
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Las Vegas Is Going All In on Its Water Conservation Plan
Anything goes in Las Vegas, except excessive water use. Two decades ago, the city began to [...]