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The Great American Eclipse

August 18, 2017 By EarthWise

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On Monday, August 21, there will be a total solar eclipse visible in a band across the entire contiguous United States.  The last time that happened was in June of 1918.  In fact, the last time a total solar eclipse was visible anywhere at all in the continental U.S. was in 1979.  So, this is a big deal for American eclipse watchers and millions of us will be heading for some part of the 65-mile-wide band of totality that wends its way from Oregon to South Carolina.

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Can The Great Barrier Reef Be Saved?

August 17, 2017 By EarthWise

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There have been many stories in the media about the ongoing environmental crisis at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.  Over the past two years, the reef has lost almost half of its coral because of bleaching events.   Faced with this situation, the Australian government created the Reef 2050 Plan, a strategy to protect and maintain the reef through the year 2050.

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Solving Terrible Traffic

August 16, 2017 By EarthWise

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Terrible traffic in cities around the world is a real blight on urban life.  Increasingly, there are many cities where you simply don’t want to have to go anywhere by car during morning and evening rush hours.

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France And Climate Change

August 15, 2017 By EarthWise

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On the heels of the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, France has rolled out ambitious plans to reduce its carbon footprint even further. 

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New York Steps Up

August 14, 2017 By EarthWise

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Now that the Trump administration announced that the United States would cease implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, various state, local and corporate entities in this country have been stepping up to assume climate leadership.

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Turtles Delay Flights

August 11, 2017 By EarthWise

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Recently, we talked about the problems New York’s native turtles have during their mating season as they cross roads and highways seeking places to lay their eggs.   The state Department of Environmental Conservation even issued recommendations for how people can help turtles avoid getting crunched by cars.

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Sustainable Ethanol

August 10, 2017 By EarthWise

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Most gas stations in the U.S. sell a blend of 90% gasoline and 10% ethanol.  Mandated by legislation, the 14 billion gallons of ethanol consumed annually by American drivers is mostly made from fermented corn.   Producing this ethanol requires millions of acres of farmland.

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Tipping Points

August 9, 2017 By EarthWise

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A tipping point is a point in time when a small thing can make a big change happen.  The term was popularized in sociology in recent decades, but really comes from physics where is refers to adding a small amount of weight to a balanced object causing it to topple over.

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Could Coral Reefs Be Wiped Out?

August 8, 2017 By EarthWise

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A new study warns that coral reefs are in danger of disappearing forever.  According to U.N. research, the world’s coral reefs could die out completely by mid-century unless carbon emissions are reduced enough to slow ocean warming.

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New Milestones For Renewable Energy

August 7, 2017 By EarthWise

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There is no question that solar power has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent years, but whenever one really looked at the numbers, it seemed to still be only a tiny fraction of the country’s power generation – until quite recently, less than one percent.

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Wasting Less Food

August 4, 2017 By EarthWise

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We have talked about the problem of food waste before.  About 40% of the food produced in the United States goes to waste, which is a truly shameful statistic.  According to a Business for Social Responsibility study on the subject, about 44% of the food that goes into landfills comes from homes.  About a third comes from the food service industry.

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Satellites And Conservation Science

August 3, 2017 By EarthWise

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Satellites orbiting the earth are becoming an increasingly powerful tool for counting and monitoring wildlife populations and to answer a host of other questions about the natural world.

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A Record Drop In Coal Consumption

August 2, 2017 By EarthWise

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Global consumption of coal dropped by 1.7% last year.  This is a major change considering that it had increased by an average of 1.9% per year from 2005 to 2015.   China, which accounts for about half of the coal burned in the world, used 1.6% less in 2016, as compared to an increase of 3.7% per year over the previous 11 years.

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Doing More Harm Than Good

August 1, 2017 By EarthWise

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A group of more than 200 scientists and medical professionals has issued a consensus statement in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives urging that antimicrobial chemicals like triclosan and triclocarban should not be used in consumer products.  The experts say that these substances offer no health benefits and are actually causing health and environmental harm.

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A Microgrid in New York’s Capital

July 31, 2017 By EarthWise

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New York State has been encouraging its communities to install microgrids for quite a while.  Now the state has committed to build a 16-megawatt microgrid to power the Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany.  The microgrid will use combined heat and power to supply 90% of the electricity as well as heating and cooling for the 10 buildings where 11,000 state employees work.

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Air Pollution And Solar Power

July 28, 2017 By EarthWise

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We are well-aware of the negative effects of air pollution on human health and on the environment, but a recent study at Duke University has revealed that global solar energy production is taking a major hit due to air pollution and dust.

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Yellowstone Grizzlies

July 27, 2017 By EarthWise

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Grizzly bears once roamed much of North America and symbolized the continent’s untamed wilderness.  But hunters and trappers nearly wiped them out across most of the Lower 48 states by the late 1800s.

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Exporting Emissions

July 26, 2017 By EarthWise

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The Paris Climate Agreement seeks to reduce global carbon emissions.  The nearly 200 countries who signed it have pledged to reduce their own emissions within their borders.  And therein lies the rub:  the agreement says nothing about the impact their products have across the world.   For some countries, the problem is not so much the emissions they produce; it is those they export.

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Sahara Greening And Tropical Cyclones

July 25, 2017 By EarthWise

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Global weather patterns are influenced by environmental conditions in places around the world.  One of the world’s major weather creators is the Sahara Desert.  The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world.  The only larger deserts of any sort are in the polar extremes of the planet and are thus not hot deserts at all.

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A Trillion Ton Iceberg

July 24, 2017 By EarthWise

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Back in February, we did a story about a rapidly-growing crack in the fourth-largest ice shelf in Antarctica.  At that time, the crack in the Larsen C ice shelf was more than 100 miles long and was growing at a pace of about 5 football fields a day.

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