Germany’s decades-long shift from from coal to renewable energy has brought both challenge and opportunity — and there are lessons for the rest of the world ...

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But a number of researchers today think that it is actually humanity’s destruction of biodiversity that creates the conditions for new viruses and diseases like COVID-19, the viral disease that ...

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January 5, 2015 — Fort Collins, Colo., is a growing, vibrant college town with a typical American problem: Beyond its idyllic historic city center, cookie-cutter subdivisions are eating away at farm ...

Production of palm oil — a ubiquitous ingredient — is devastating for the environment. Solutions are complex, but they are out there.

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A 2008 compact protects the Great Lakes from many water withdrawals. But will it hold up in the face of today's growing demand for freshwater?

January 21, 2015 — Conservation biology and restoration ecology have been roiled by a bandwagon termed “novel ecosystems,” heralded as the “new ecological world order” in a manifesto published in 2006 ...

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Through innovative partnerships and exchanges with neighbors, the Gila River Indian Community is ensuring that its members have long-term access to their own resources while helping solve broader ...

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