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New Map Knows Noise

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Oil-Eating Microbes Have Worldwide Underground Connections

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Siberian Winters See Temp Uptick

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Dig This: China Cuts Coal Production

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Is Recycling Worth the Effort?

6

Tropical Forests Pay Price for Gold Rush

7

Cheap Oil Means Raise the Gas T-Word

8

Meet the (Newest Known) Beetles!

9

Oil Spill Sullies World Heritage Site

10

Plummeting Petroleum Price Gases Up Global Warming

11

Movies Can Boost Solar Power

12

Sun's Magnetic Field Boosts Earth Lightning

13

Wildlife Crime? There's an App for That

14

Protected Areas Get Short Shrift

15

Clock Ticking on Climate Change Prevention

16

Better E-Waste Handling Helps Environment and Health

17

Bottling the Sun's Power on Earth

18

Ebola Gorilla Vaccine Could Prevent Human Outbreaks

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Wildlife Population Plummeted Since 1970

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People Power Takes Aim at Climate Change

21

Ozone Hole Closing Up, Thanks to Global Action

22

Historic Abundance of Blue Whales Returns in California

23

How to Save the Woods

24

Spill Some Oil? Magnetize It for Cleanup

25

Antique Markets Used to Launder Poached Ivory

26

Bahamas Creation Linked to African Dust

27

Some Coral Should Produce Shells in Acidifying Ocean

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Ants Could Help Warming Cry Uncle

29

Urban Growth Defines This Century

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Environmental Crime Funds Terrorism

31

Future Smog Looks More Persistent

32

Poisoned Poor Killed in Millions by Pollution

33

I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Plastiglomerate

34

Better Car Labeling Could Pump Up Fuel Efficiency

35

Pope Francis Pleas for the Environment

36

Poetry Poster Sucks Up Smog

37

Hurricanes Move Away from Equator with Expanding Tropics

38

Bumper Corn Looks Dicey in Drought

39

Biodiversity Survives Extinctions for Now

40

Earthquake Deflection Takes a Tiny Step

41

Citizen Environmental Monitoring Could Keep Officials Honest

42

Space-Based Solar Collectors Could Have a Sunny Future

43

Realistic Climate Models Exhibit Greenhouse Gas Sensitivity

44

Lighting May Cut Seed-Rich Bat Guano Production

45

Air-Gun Oil Exploration Wrongs Right Whales

46

Climate Currently Pays for Increased Human Wealth

47

Cities Befriend Select Plants and Animals

48

Global Warming Freezes Penguin Chicks

49

China Holiday Travel Puts Spotlight on Transportation

50

If the Fuel Source Ain't Clean, Your Electric Car Ain't Green

51

Heat Is on These Countries for the Heat

52

Cold Outside? Forecast Calls for an Uptick in Global Warming Disbelief

53

The Biggest Stories on Earth

54

Don't Treat Old Gadgets Like Garbage

55

How Many Partridges Are Really in that Pear Tree?

56

Blame Heat Waves on Loss of Arctic Sea Ice

57

Dandruff Shampoo Could Mess Up Waterways

58

Human Health Depends on a Healthy Environment

59

Burying Coal Ash for Good

60

Ozone Hole History Offers Climate Lesson

61

Fertilizers Are (Nearly) Forever

62

U.S. Government Shutdown Disrupts Earth Monitoring

63

Climate Change Fight Needs Game Attitude

64

Airplane Pollution Needs To Descend

65

Can Solar Power Be Cheap?

66

Fighting Climate Change Also Battles Disease

67

Which Places Are Most Vulnerable to Climate Change?

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Trees Write Air Pollution Record In Wood

69

Which Came First: Low CO2 or an Ice Age?

70

Cellist Converts Climate Data To Song

71

How Many Ants Become World Travelers?

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Big Animal Extinction Impoverishes Soil

73

Desert Shrubs Could Suck Up Carbon

74

How to Prevent Another Fukushima Explosion

75

When a Heat Wave Is the Future, You Need Better Air-Conditioning

76

Where's the Best Place to Put a Wind Farm?

77

Climate Change Alters Soil Bacteria Distribution

78

Is There a Formula for Better Cities?

79

To Store More Carbon, Make Grasshoppers Nervous

80

Climate Change Getting Worse by the Minute

81

Plastic Bags Litter Seafloor

82

400-Year-Old Plant Resurrected

83

Water Waste May Leave Us Thirsty

84

Who's Paying the Price for Global Warming?

85

Moon Base Work Yields Clean Steel Process

86

Remember the BP Oil Spill? Malformed Fish Do

87

Air Gun Blasts Shatter Undersea Tranquility

88

Is Sustainability Even Possible?

89

Cut Soot to Stave Off Sea Level Rise

90

Penguin Species Could Be Climate Winner

91

Extinction May Not Be Forever

92

Can a Pope Change the World?

93

Life Abides, Even in the Deep

94

Chavez's Death Could Affect Oil Prices, Production and Pollution

95

Will There Be Enough Water?

96

How Skynet Could Help Save the Planet

97

Insurance for Global Catastrophes, Whether Asteroids or Climate Change

98

Roses Raise Environment Concerns

99

Earthworm Invaders Up Soil Greenhouse Gases

100

Communication Towers Pluck Birds