World's biggest solar boat reaches New York City
They will stay in the city until June 20th. After that, they continue their journey which will end in Norway.
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7 Conservation Photographers Documenting Disappearing Wildlife
These seven photographers are working on outstanding conservation projects. Check out their gorgeous photographs.
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Nature Blows My Mind! This Jellyfish Is Immortal
This tiny jellyfish has the ability to transform from a mature adult into polyps making it, well, kinda immortal.
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11,000: Number of Gabon Elephants Killed In Less Than 10 years
Since 2004, this is the number of elephants killed in Gabon's Minkebe National Park rainforest, and the driver is ivory demand in Asia.
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Global Grain Stocks Drop Dangerously Low as 2012 Consumption Exceeded Production
The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons or 3 percent from the 2011 record harvest. The drop was largely because of droughts that devastated several major crops.
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3 Widely Used Pesticides Banned in EU Due to Unacceptable Danger to Bees
Three of the world's most used pesticides, neonicotinoids made by Bayer and Syngenta, will be banned in the EU to see if bees recover.
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Erupting Volcano Explored with Amazing 360 Degree Interactive Video
This interactive video lets you look around from a helicopter's vantage point as it flies over a deadly but gorgeous volcano.
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Family Cleans House, Finds Pet Tortoise Missing Since 1982
For one particularly tenacious pet tortoise, its hardy sense of survival allowed it to endure for decades in the most unnatural of places.
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Watch a City-Sized Glacier Collapse (Video)
The makers of Chasing Ice, a documentary about the effects of global warming, captured amazing footage of the largest ice calving ever caught on film. You have to see this!
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Quote of the Day: David Attenborough on our Alienation from Nature
Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. He's afraid that urbanization could lead to a disconnect from nature, and that the media can help breach the gap.
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10 Reasons Why Dolphins Are Undeniably Awesome
Dolphins possess many admirable qualities and characteristics that endear them to us like few other species on Earth.
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Watch A Huge Golden Moon Rise In Real Time (Video)
This. Is awesome.
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Nature Blows My Mind! Tiny Island Home to Thousands of Deadly Snakes
The Ilha de Queimada Grande is a forbidden island because stepping foot on its shores is just asking for death.
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Overfishing Threatens a Critical Link in the Food Chain
The fish near the bottom of the aquatic food chain—collectively known as forage fish—are often overlooked, but they are vital to healthy oceans and estuaries.
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Using Darwin to Develop More Efficient Solar Panels
Use of "artificial" natural selection can be used to trap light (photons) longer so that energy can be harvested more efficiently in organic solar cells.
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Newly Discovered Spider Builds Lifelike Decoys
For one tiny spider recently discovered in the Peruvian Amazon, creating an incredibly convincing decoy of itself seems to come naturally.
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ABC News and Daily Show Miss Point on Beijing Air Crisis
While The Daily Show and ABC News report on China's toxic air pollution, their framing misses an opportunity to connect dots to climate crisis.
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Nicholas Stern: Climate Situation 'Far Worse' Than Previously Thought
Nicholas Stern, the British economist who made a big splash worldwide with his government-commissioned Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change in 2006, is now saying that things are even worse than he let on in his famous report.
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10,000 Escaped Crocodiles on the Loose in South Africa
If there were ever a time to avoid swimming in the Limpopo River, it's now!
