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Native Tribes Are Bringing Prairie Land Back to the Pacific Northwest
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Native Tribes Are Bringing Prairie Land Back to the Pacific Northwest
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Purple Pipes: How SF's Revolutionary Recycled Water Plan Fizzled
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Purple Pipes: How SF's Revolutionary Recycled Water Plan Fizzled
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The End of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | The Ocean Cleanup
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The End of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | The Ocean Cleanup
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The U.S. will officially phase down HFCs, gases trapping 1,000x more heat than CO2
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The U.S. will officially phase down HFCs, gases trapping 1,000x more heat than CO2
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For New Zealand Māori, an Uncertain Future as Fish Move Away
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For New Zealand Māori, an Uncertain Future as Fish Move Away
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China is painting Mountains Green to fool Environmentalists - No, Really
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China is painting Mountains Green to fool Environmentalists - No, Really
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A Conservation Project in Jamaica Puts Community First
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A Conservation Project in Jamaica Puts Community First
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‘Viable, just & necessary’: Agroecology is a movement in Brazil
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‘Viable, just & necessary’: Agroecology is a movement in Brazil
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Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company
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Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company
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As Extreme Weather Worsens, Can Cities Protect Public Transit?
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As Extreme Weather Worsens, Can Cities Protect Public Transit?
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Hawai’i shuts down its last coal plant
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Hawai’i shuts down its last coal plant
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How Flip-Flop Art Helps Clean Kenya's Beaches
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How Flip-Flop Art Helps Clean Kenya's Beaches
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Solar power surges in Spain
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Solar power surges in Spain
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Mercury pollution makes ducks more likely to get bird flu
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Wild waterfowl such as ducks are believed to be superspreaders of the virus in part because they travel so far as they migrate, potentially infecting other birds along the way. For the new study, scientists shot down nearly 750 wild ducks from 11 different species in California's San Francisco Bay, which is in a migratory path that stretches from Alaska to Patagonia. They then tested the ducks for mercury contamination and whether they were infected with bird flu -- or had antibodies for the virus in their system. The results, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, showed that ducks contaminated with mercury were up to 3.5 times more likely to have had bird flu at some point over the last year or so. The study's lead author, Claire Teitelbaum, a quantitative ecologist at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center, said mercury contamination "can suppress the immune system, and that might make infection with anything -- including influenza -- more likely".
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Mercury pollution makes ducks more likely to get bird flu
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Energy citizenship: Europe’s communities forging a low-carbon future
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Energy citizenship: Europe’s communities forging a low-carbon future
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Americans keep moving to where the water isn’t
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Americans keep moving to where the water isn’t
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Our On Again, Off Again, Infrastructure Future
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Our On Again, Off Again, Infrastructure Future
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The Trees That Miss The Mammoths
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The Trees That Miss The Mammoths
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Informational Session for new Citizens' Climate Lobby volunteers starts in a few hours | If you've signed up for CCL but haven't yet taken the training, this is the place to start
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Informational Session for new Citizens' Climate Lobby volunteers starts in a few hours | If you've signed up for CCL but haven't yet taken the training, this is the place to start
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Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy
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Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/JuExJ
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Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy
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