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China’s manmade islands cause environmental alarm in addition to political tensions

Aug 4, 2016

China has been creating artificial islands in the resource-rich South China Sea, causing global concern for the environmental damage taking place. These islands have come at the cost of the health of reef struc...

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to EPA mercury emissions guidelines

West Side Story

Jul 27, 2016

Environment, Policy, Science

A decision was made on Monday by the Supreme Court not to review an appeal filed by 20 states attempting to block EPA rules limiting emissions of mercury and other byproducts of coal production. The appeal was ...

Respondents find the idea of crops emitting CO2 responsible for climate change offensive

Charles Omedo

Nov 23, 2014

Innovation

Since agricultural scientists have announced earlier this week that carbon-dioxide increases crop productivity per acre while ultimately contributing to climate change, many respondents and commenters on social...

IPCC says Politicians must rise to safeguard our world from climate change

Charles Omedo

Nov 2, 2014

Innovation

According to a new climate change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), politicians have been advised by climate experts to take up the challenge to protect our world from climate chan...

Chicago: Little Calumet Rivers Stocked With 30,000 Catfish by Friends of the Chicago River and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Jamie Hacking

Jun 12, 2014

Innovation

An earnest endeavor directed at cleaning up the Chicago River on Tuesday has leveraged efforts to carry out a full-fledged restoration project. In the 1970s, there were only about three or four fish species ...

China to flatten 700 mountains, Scientists tip off environmental side effects

Platonium

Jun 7, 2014

Innovation

China plans to bulldoze mountains in order to create more buildable land, a move that researches say will cause many environmental problems. According to researchers from Chang'an University in China, dozens...

Tree Falls and Kills Counselor

Amanda

Jul 4, 2013

Uncategorized

A 21-year old from New York, Annais Rittenberg, was killed in California at a summer camp, after a tree fell and landed on top of her. The woman was killed on Wednesday while at a summer camp near California...

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