Category:Environment
From The Observatory
Pages in category "Environment"
The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total.
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- 1,3-Dichloropropene: The Dangerous, Sweet-Smelling Pesticide You’ve Never Heard Of
- Want to Help Stop the Plastic Scourge? Stop Relying on Recycling and Do This Instead
- 8 Billion Humans? Population Is a Difficult Conversation, but We Need to Start Getting Real
- 10 Reasons Why Hydropower Dams Are a False Climate Solution
- 600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now
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- Quick Guide to Avoiding Backyard Ecological Traps and Creating a Wildlife Sanctuary
- Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
- Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
- Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
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- Can We Abandon Pollutive Fossil Fuels and Avoid an Energy Crisis?
- Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change, but Will It Come Soon Enough?
- Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
- Climate Change Is Boosting Plant Pollen Production, Which Means More Seasonal Allergies
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- Have Nonprofits Misled Supporters by Hiding Unsustainable Growth Policies?
- How a 20th-Century Family Planning Agenda Fueled the Climate Crisis
- How Animal Agriculture Drains Our Freshwater Supplies
- How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
- Europe Is Perversely Causing the Destruction of U.S. Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
- How Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water
- A Climate Change Solution No One’s Talking About: Better Land Use
- How Media Companies Can Meet Their Climate Commitments—and How Readers Can Help
- How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
- How the Acequia Ancient Irrigation Method Makes Sustainable Life Possible in the U.S. Southwest
- How the American Legislative Exchange Council Turns Disinformation Into Law
- How the Built Environment Is Damaging Children’s Connection to Nature
- How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act 2022 Can Help Veterans Impacted by Toxic Exposure
- How the Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
- How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
- How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
- How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
- How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun, Too)
- How Tourism Could Actually Help African Wildlife in One of Kenya’s Important National Reserves
- How U.S. States Can Protect the Environment From Federal Rollbacks and Intervention
- Unclear Federal Law Allows Logging, Farming, and Mining to Threaten America’s Biodiverse Ecosystems
- Feeling Defeated by the Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling? There’s Still a Lot We Can Do
- From COVID-19 to Climate Change, Human Overpopulation Is the Big White Elephant in the Room
- Humanity’s Main Environmental Problem Is Consumption—Climate Change Is Just One of the Byproducts
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- How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate Resilient Agriculture
- Can We Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Time to Avert Climate Catastrophe?
- Eating Locally and in Season: Is It Really Better for the Environment?
- Is the Food Industry Concealing Possible Destruction of the Tropics From the Public?
- Is Wastewater an Answer for Adapting to Climate Change?
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- Malawi’s Farmers Face a Precarious Future From Climate Change-Related Storms
- Medicine Residue Is Everywhere in Our Rivers and Lakes—and Fish Are Behaving Strangely
- Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the First Person to Understand Climate Change — More Than Two Centuries Ago
- Methane: The Forgotten Climate Change Driver That’s Poisoning Frontline Communities
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- Palm Oil in Common Household Products Is Destroying the World’s ‘Orangutan Capital’
- Palm Oil: The Ingredient Behind Human Rights Abuses and Eco-Destruction That’s Probably in Your Home Right Now
- Plastic Pollution Is a Crime Against People and the Planet
- Populist Climate Action Requires Thinking About Freedom From Specific Oppressors—Not Just Species Survival
- Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz and Nestlé Are Among 10 of the Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
- Profit Trumps People and Planet in Brazil’s Eucalyptus Industry
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- Removing Hydropower Dams Can Restore Ecosystems, Build Climate Resilience, and Restore Tribal Lands
- Renewables Are Gaining Traction, but We Need to Be Able to Store the Energy
- Restoring the Wild: How Reintroducing Bison Could Revive Britain’s Landscapes and Ecosystems
- Rivers Are Key to Restoring the World’s Biodiversity
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- Sanitation in Namibia Is a Catastrophe for Its People and Environment
- Saving the Bumblebee Starts With Changing Our Farming Practices
- Should Harming Mother Earth Be a Crime? The Case for Ecocide
- Should Humans Try to Modify the Amount of Sunlight the Earth Receives?
- Sustainability Is Not as New an Idea as You Might Think — It’s More Than 300 Years Old
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- Ten Grim Climate Scenarios When Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius
- The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking Like the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business
- The Case for Protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘Last Climate Sanctuary’
- The Danger of Releasing Genetically Modified Trees Into the Wild
- The Global Push for Population Growth Shows We’re Not Grappling With the Climate Crisis
- The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World—We Urgently Need to Support Local Food Economies
- The Growing Inequality Among Countries and the Worsening Climate Crisis
- The Humble Carrot’s Colorful History
- Plastics Impact on Human Health
- The Internet Is a Major Environmental Problem
- The Myth That Meat Is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All
- The Nuclear Energy Dilemma: Climate Savior or Existential Threat?
- Understanding the Potential Impact of Wireless Technology on Wildlife
- The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing
- The Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
- The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act Decision Threatens the Nation’s Rivers
- The Sustainability Scam: How Self-Interest Ruins Good Ideas
- These U.S. Banks Are Financing Climate Chaos Through Fossil Fuel Expansion
- Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Weaken the Immune System Response
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- Across Africa, Water Conflict Threatens Security, Health, and the Environment
- To Prevent the Next Pandemic, Live Animal Markets Must Be Shut Down
- We Have Entered the Era of ‘Global Boiling’—Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, and Economies Are Being Devastated
- We Ignore Thousands of Threatened Plant Species at Our Own Peril
- We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
- What Would a Real Renewable Energy Transition Look Like?
- What’s So Green About Burning Trees? The False Promise of Biomass Energy
- Whole Foods and McDonald's Are Fueling the Massive Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico
- Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now
- Why Children’s Rights Are Critical for Climate Policy and Environmental Activism
- Why Healthy Forests Mean Fewer Pandemics
- Why Las Vegas Is at the Heart of Western States’ Water Conundrums
- The Complex and Frustrating Reality of Recycling Plastic
- Why Small Farming Is Essential for Creating a Sustainable Future
- Why the World’s Most Popular Herbicide Is a Public Health Hazard
- Why Women Are More Likely to Be Environmentalists Than Men
- Wildfires Aren’t Just a Threat to People—They’re Killing Off Earth’s Biodiversity
