Mass Consumption Is Causing Mass Extinction. Can We Stop Ourselves?
TakePart — Populations of wild animals have plummeted 58 percent in the past four decades as humans have pushed them into ever-smaller habitats or killed them for food and financial gain, according to a new report from a leading environmental group.
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This Technology Revealed Just How Scarily Fast Antarctica Is Melting
TakePart – Warming ocean waters have been destabilizing some of the massive ice shelves around Antarctica for years. Now scientists have figured out that some of this ice is melting far more quickly than previously thought, according to a study published Tuesday. That has implications for how much sea levels will rise over the next several decades and centuries.
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Water for Millions Is Vanishing as Bolivia’s Glaciers Melt
TakePart — Glaciers in the Bolivian Andes have shrunk 43 percent since 1986 as a result of rising global temperatures, putting millions of people at risk for shortages of drinking water, irrigation, and hydropower.
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Locals Are Saving an Enormous Tropical Fish From Extinction
TakePart – Three decades ago, commercial overfishing decimated populations of the arapaima-the largest scaled freshwater fish in the world-in the meandering Juruá River in a remote area of Brazil's western Amazon.
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How the West Was Lost: Ranchers Devastated by Fossil Fuel Boom
TakePart – WRIGHT, Wyoming-Standing under the vast blue dome of the Wyoming sky on an August morning, rancher L.J. Turner gazes at a puddle of brown water at the bottom of a grass-ringed pit covered in thick mud.
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New Solar Device Removes Carbon Dioxide From the Atmosphere
TakePart — A new type of solar-powered technology has the potential to play a big role in the fight against climate change if its inventors can take it from the laboratory to industrial-scale use.
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A Vast Arctic Marine Wilderness Moves One Step Closer to Protection
TakePart—A 40,000-square-mile marine wilderness will be off limits to oil and gas drilling.
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Scientists to White House: Stop Oil Industry Threat to Whales
TakePart — Over two dozen marine scientists from some of the nation's top research institutions have asked President Barack Obama to suspend plans for underwater oil and gas surveys off the Atlantic coast that could harm the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
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Fatal Thaw: The Sámi Fight to Preserve an Ancient Culture as the Arctic Warms
TakePart — The indigenous Scandinavian people are taking matters into their own hands to save the salmon and reindeer integral to their traditions.
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A Toxic Threat Reaches a Remote Arctic Island
TakePart—Norwegian scientists find a landlocked population of Arctic char carries some of the highest levels of toxic persistent organic pollutants found above the Arctic Circle.
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Shell May Be Leaving the Arctic, but Norway's High North Is Open for Business
TakePart—Off the north coast of Norway, Arctic oil may soon start flowing at the Statoil/Eni Goliat drilling platform, despite the project's ongoing technical problems and delays.
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The U.S. and Russia Team Up to Save the Polar Bear
TakePart—Thanks to a 1973 treaty to preserve polar bears, several nations are cooperating on stopping climate change from decimating the iconic predator.
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See How Close Oil Drilling Will Get to Arctic Whales This Summer
TakePart—Environmental advocates say no safety requirements can measure up to the tough weather conditions in this remote area or prevent a potential oil spill from harming wildlife.
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Sea-Level Rise Poses Hard Choice for Two Neighborhoods: Rebuild or Retreat?
TakePart — New York City is figuring out how to respond to a major climate disaster—and when to give up trying.
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Obama’s Arctic Wilderness Move Would Protect Endangered Polar Bears and Wolves
TakePart—Opening the Arctic Refuge oil and gas drilling is a cherished goal of powerful GOP lawmakers, but President Obama has asked Congress to keep the land wild.
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Nine things you need to know about polar sea ice
The Guardian—If the total amount of ice on the planet’s surface remains the same, does it really matter where it is? Short answer: Yes.
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