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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Does Every Climate Pledge Need to Center Carbon...
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Vanilla Prices Are Already Unstable. Could Cyclones Make...
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Could Urban Greenspaces Be Even More Green, Economical,...
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Ventilation: Buildings Are a Major Energy and Money...
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How Does Beef Production Impact the Environment?
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What Issues Are Sea Turtles Facing and What...
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How Do We Decarbonize Electricity While Keeping Up...
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Fracking: What Is It and Why Is It...
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How Could the United Nations Environment Programme Improve?
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How Are Investor-State Dispute Settlements Posing a Threat...
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How Do We Make Aviation Cleaner, Healthier, and...
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Solar Power Is Clean and Cheap, But Still...
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The Little Fire That Could
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Quiz: Can You Find the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker?
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How Climate Change and Overfishing Affect the Ocean’s...
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How Do We Make Wastewater Treatment Plants the Sustainable Solution They Were Supposed to Be?
Wastewater treatment plants were intended to be a sustainable sanitation solution, but they have environmental, economic, and health issues.
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Extreme Rains Could Impact Water Pollution
About 10 trillion gallons of untreated stormwater runoff, containing sewage, trash, and toxins, enters U.S. waterways from cities every year.
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Sharks Have Survived Four Mass Extinctions, But Now, They’re Endangered
As an apex predator, the decline in sharks due to overfishing and climate change has massive ramifications for marine ecosystems.
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PFAS: How Climate Change Could Worsen the ‘Forever Chemical’ Crisis
This class of chemicals lead to a slew of negative health effects, and never break down. Could climate change worsen their impacts?
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What Are Dugongs and How Is Climate Change Affecting Them?
A relative of the manatee, dugongs are listed as vulnerable by the IUCN. Could climate change and commercial fishing help explain why?
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What Issues Are Sea Turtles Facing and What Does It Mean for Our Oceans and Economy?
Plastic straws are not a big threat to sea turtles, but climate change, commercial fishing, and poaching certainly pose major challenges.
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Stream Found To Be 1.2% Alcohol, Fish Claim They Can Swim Away Anytime
One man's environmental hazard was another fish's paradise in Oahu.
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Fracking: What Is It and Why Is It So Controversial?
Fracking doesn't just bring environmental issues, but economic, health, and justice ones too. Can fracking be improved or should we wean off?
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Could Nuclear Energy Be Part of a Carbon-Free Future?
Nuclear energy is often presented as all good or all bad. In reality, it's a lot more complicated than that.
