How Can Soy Reduce Its Environmental Impact?
Soy is a staple in much of our food, but it's associated with monocropping, pesticides, and deforestation. How can soy be more sustainable?
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Yosemite National Park: How Visitors Affect the Environment
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Eagle Ford Shale: Why Even the Oil Woes...
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How Do We Save the Bees?
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What’s the Deal With All This Plastic Straw...
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How Can Electric Vehicles Overcome Their Limitations?
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The Sweaty Penguin’s Guide to Procrastinating on Climate...
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How Do We Decarbonize Electricity While Keeping Up...
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What the Great Barrier Reef’s Collapse Would Mean...
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How Heat and Air Pollution Affect Our Productivity
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Monsoon Impacts Worsen with the Rise of Extreme...
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How Does Beef Production Impact the Environment?
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Lab-Grown Meat: Future Climate Solution or Icky Science...
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How Climate Change, Poverty, and Social Stigma Affect...
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Organic and Fair Trade Certifications: What Are the...
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What Issues Are Sea Turtles Facing and What...
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I Ranked 5 Renewable Energy Jobs by How...
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Could Capturing Carbon Help Combat Climate Change?
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Lululemon Launches New Line for Coal Miners
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How Do We Save the Bees?
In the most recent wave of losses, beekeepers in the United States lost 45.5 percent of their managed honeybee colonies.
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Mosquitoes: How Climate Change Increases Populations of the World’s Deadliest Animal
Between malaria and other diseases, mosquitoes cause 1 million human deaths per year. Could climate change make those numbers even worse?
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What Are the Environmental and Economic Issues Facing Rubber Production?
Natural rubber is widely considered more climate-friendly and a better product than synthetic rubber, but it still presents some issues.
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How Can the Chocolate Industry Be Greener and More Humane?
The cocoa oligopoly is driving West African farmers into deep poverty, leading to deforestation and child labor. But there is a path forward.
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How Temperature Rise, Late Frosts, and Wildfires Are Changing the Wine Industry
Winemaking is all about controlling flavor. Could climate change make our favorite wines taste different, or even wipe them out entirely?
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Rising Temperatures Are Changing the Taste of Tea
Between climate threats, environmental degradation, and human rights issues, there's a lot of tea to spill about our favorite hot beverage.
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DDT: The Pesticide Behind Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” Still Persists Today
The toxic pesticide is still used to control malaria in many parts of the world where economical alternatives aren't available.
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How Does America’s Corn Obsession Impact the Environment and Economy?
Corn agriculture degrades our climate, land, and health, all for a product we primarily use for ethanol and animal feed.
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Lawn Pesticides Aren’t All Good or All Bad
What are the impacts of various lawn pesticides on public health and the environment and what improvements could be made?
