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America’s Northernmost City Is Having Another Dramatic Climate Change Year
The northernmost city in the U.S. continues to be ground zero for the impacts of climate change. As sunlight fades from the Arctic, sea ice began to form this week around Utqiaġvik, an Iñupiat whaling community located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. And that’s…not right.
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Apple’s New Macs Use ‘100 Per Cent Recycled Aluminium,’ But What Does That Mean?
Apple’s second press blitz of the fall delivered details on a bunch of new devices. But the company also made some announcements on the environmental front that are generating buzz and raising questions, particularly regarding the recycled materials some of its 2018 product line will use.
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Alarming Study Links ‘Collapse’ Of Rainforest Food Web To Rising Temperatures
One of the most well-studied tropical forests on Earth has seen its insect populations crash since the 1970s with effects rippling up the food chain, an alarming new study has found.
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Why Hungry Polar Bears Could Start Devouring Dead Whales
Just over a year ago, more than 150 polar bears amassed on a remote island off the north coast Siberia to devour a dead bowhead whale that had washed ashore. It was the largest swarm of polar bears ever recorded feasting on a stranded whale — but events such as this could become more common…