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a collection of articles and videos about Solar Energy
Hurricanes - science, why the form, how to predict
a collection of articles and videos about the UN Sustainable Development Goals - #7. Affordable and Clean Energy
A collection of articles about Florida, water management, development and pollution
a collection of articles and videos about planting trees, Deforestation and Global Warming, Climate Change
A collection of articles about How cities are preparing for sea level rise and global warming
Forests, Trees, Plants and Global Warming, Climate Change
Introduction to criticism and issues, debates about carbon offset markets
A collection of articles about How cities are preparing for sea level rise and global warming
A collection of articles about Miami - Biscayne Bay, water management, development and pollution
a collection of articles and videos about Deforestation and Global Warming, Climate Change
a collection of articles and videos about Glaciers and Global Warming, Climate Change
Donations, Charity, Garbage and Recycling
A collection of articles about Florida, water management, development and pollution
A collection of articles about How cities are preparing for sea level rise and global warming
Glaciers and Global Warming, Climate Change
Water Crises, Rivers, Droughts, and Wildfires
A collection of articles about Climate Change - and the Reports from the UN
a collection of articles about Recycling and Single-Use Disposable Straws
a collection of articles and videos about the UN Sustainable Development Goals - #13. Climate Action
a collection about water usege and Coca-Cola, Nestle, bottling and Water
Manatees in Florida - habitat restoration and water management issues
Articles and videos looking at air quality and Pollution
A collection of articles about Florida, water management, development and pollution
Jeff Bezos - What can individuals do to combat Global warming?
Articles and videos looking at Garbage, Recycling
A collection of articles about Florida, water management, development and pollution
A collection of articles about Florida, water management, development and pollution
a collection of articles and videos about the UN Sustainable Development Goals - #14. Life Below Water
a collection of articles, videos and podcasts about Land Rights - Private and Public Land in the USA

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Article

Energy: A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery

But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected | United States (2024)


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Special Report: Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention

It is vital to climate stabilisation, remarkably challenging and systematically ignored | Special report (2023)


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Your cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag

You have to use a cotton tote thousands of times to make up for its environmental impact. If you’re trying to contribute as little as possible t... (2019)


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De-growth: Meet the lefty Europeans who want to shrink the economy

De-growers of the world, unite! | Europe Stop the economy, lefty Europeans want to get off. “Panels of citizens can advise what is wasteful ... (2023)



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A Giant Blob of Seaweed Is Heading to Florida - The New York Times

The mass, known as the great Atlantic Sargassum belt, is drifting toward the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists say seaweed is likely to come ashore by sum... (2023)


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Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills - Bloomberg

Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives. "Tens of thousands of ag... (2022)


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Green Investing. A Dirty Secret - The Economist

Polluting businesses are moving into the financial shadows | Leaders Green investors’ filthy secret. The truth about dirty assets… (2022)


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Yes, We Can Grow 1 Trillion Trees to Help Fight Climate Change

Growing and conserving 1 trillion trees around the world is a vital response to climate change that everyone can take part in. (2021)


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Peru ponders: whose fish are they anyway? | The Economist

A bid to protect part of the Pacific raises legal conundrums | The Americas (2021)


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In praise of America’s founding fish | The Economist

The Potomac river is a more vivid symbol of American history than any of the monuments along it | United States (2021)


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How 3 tech start-ups plan to tackle forest restoration | World Economic Forum

From algorithms and AI to drones and data, here are some of the innovative solutions being deployed to slow the annual global loss of 15 billion tr... (2021)


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How one business plans to grow one billion trees in 10 years | World Economic Forum

Through community building and bringing companies and consumers closer to reforestation efforts, one company believes it can inspire more people to... (2021)


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Shark Populations Are Crashing, With a ‘Very Small Window’ to Avert Disaster - The New York Times

Oceanic sharks and rays have declined more than 70 percent since 1970, mainly because of overfishing, according to a new study. (2021)


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After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform

It took five decades, but the Democratic Party has finally changed its stance on nuclear energy. In its recently released party platform, the Democ... (2020)


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The Coral Gables Problem Beneath the Surface

Nearly half of Coral Gables residences are on septic tanks. Many may be leaking. As sea levels rise, how big a problem is that? % Keon says “the... (2020)


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Opinion | The Reign of Recycling - The New York Times

It’s still costly and inefficient. So why do we keep doing it? (2020)


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Europe's lakes and rivers are under threat - but it's not too late | World Economic Forum

More than 1 million species worldwide are at risk of extinction, and freshwater species are particularly threatened. (2020)


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Opinion | Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry - The New York Times

The state’s aquifers are shrinking, yet corporations want to appropriate even more of them. (2019)


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Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber? - The New York Times

A small body of evidence suggests that when it comes to decision making, indoor air may matter more than we have realized. (2019)


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Jakarta Sinking: How Subsidence Endangers Indonesia’s Capital | Harvard Political Review

When Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth was released in 2006, some of its most striking images depicted the flooding of major cities from dramati... (2019)


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Toxic Algal Blooms: Danger Ahead | Key News for Key Biscayne

Dr. Larry Brand has spent a professional lifetime analyzing South Florida waters, researching a loosely related group of ancient organisms lumped a... (2019)


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The shockingly simple way to make packaging more sustainable - Fast Company

Your home cleaning products have a major carbon footprint. Several startups want to popularize a clever solution: remove the water. Blueland deliv... (2019)


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How food packaging is good for the environment - The Economist explains

SUPERMARKETS encourage shoppers to buy products through clever layouts and cunning promotions. Packaging presents items in an alluring way. It also... (2019)


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Plastic plates, cups, cutlery to be banned in EU by 2021

Leave your plastic at home on your next European vacation. (2019)


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The Plague Killing Frogs Everywhere Is Far Worse Than Scientists Thought - The New York Times

As a threat to wildlife, an amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known to science.” (2019)


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How drones and satellite images are measuring the forests used for carbon offsets

Pachama is building a verified marketplace for forest carbon offsets. (2019)


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The hottest new wellness startups are selling houseplants - Fast Company

Forget CBD oil or crystals. These burgeoning companies offer something more mundane: the delight of growing things, delivered to your door. (2019)


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Opinion | Miami Battles Rising Seas - The New York Times

In 2017, voters agreed to finance adaptation efforts through property taxes. Now the first phase of those projects is underway. (2019)


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The Army of Autonomous Robots Restoring Nature | Tom Chi | TED

Impact investor Tom Chi challenges a dangerous assumption: that economic growth and ecological health are opposing forces. He reveals how advances ... (2026)


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This Seaweed Was a Caribbean Disaster, Now It's Gold

This Seaweed Was a Caribbean Disaster, Now It's Gold. Caribbean beaches are ankle-deep in slimy, smelly seaweed. Wave after wave of sargassum is bl... (2025)


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What’s Causing the Parkinson’s Belt?

The number of people with Parkinson's Disease has doubled in just 25 years, but its rise has been much worse in some places than in others. (2025)


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Manatees finally return to these restored Florida rivers | WILD HOPE

Crystal River has long been a safe haven for the Florida manatee, but when an invasive algae wiped out the eelgrass that manatees need for food, th... (2024)


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Hurricanes: the science behind the destruction

Hurricanes are among the most dangerous natural phenomena on earth, causing billions of dollars of damage and destroying lives every year. But what... (2023)


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The big problem with cement, and how to fix it. Concrete and carbon emissions

Concrete emits a ton of carbon. Here's how we get it to net-zero. (2023)


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How we get tree planting wrong | It's Complicated

In the face of the impending climate catastrophe, there has been a growing clamour to repopulate the trillions of trees our planet has lost over th... (2023)


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India is cleaning up Ganges river. Here’s how:

We are experiencing a dangerous decline in nature: One million species are threatened with extinction, soils are turning infertile and water source... (2023)


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Ethiopia, Egypt and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War

Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)


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I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works.

Global warming: I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works. (2023)


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The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris

The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris (2023)


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13 Misconceptions About Global Warming

13 Misconceptions About Global Warming (2022)


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Why Electric Planes are Inevitably Coming

Why Electric Planes are Inevitably Coming (2021)


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How trees talk to each other | TED - Suzanne Simard

TED 16.8M subscribers "A forest is much more than what you see," says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests h... (2020)


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The secret language of trees - TED-Ed Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard

TED-Ed 11.3M subscribers Learn how trees are able to communicate with each other through a vast root system and symbiotic fungi, called mycorr... (2020)


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Make the World Greta Again (Full Documentary)

Upon realizing her generation won’t have a future unless the world’s politicians act now on climate change, then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg skipped... (2019)


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Sargassum explained by George Buckley, Harvard University Extinction School

Here are the causes of Sargassum bloom and what we need to do. What we are looki... Lockerbie College Published on Mar 24, 2019 Bonaire Vision... (2019)


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PBS - Episode 902: Toxic Algae: Complex Sources and Solutions

For the past two decades, the residents of Martin county and the surrounding areas have been faced with a silent curse. A guacamole thick mat of bl... (2019)


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The true cost of fast fashion | The Economist

Millions of tonnes of clothes end up in landfill every year—it’s one of the fastest-growing categories of waste in the world. How can the fashion i... (2019)


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CNN Explains: Deforestation

CNN Special Correspondent Philippe Cousteau explains why deforestation occurs and its negative effect on the environment. (2019)


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Climate 101: Deforestation | National Geographic

Forests cover about 30% of the planet, but deforestation is clearing these essential habitats on a massive scale. What is deforestation? Find out t... (2019)


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Ocean: A 360-degree tour of the mysterious, magical corals of Palau | The Economist

Palau's vibrant corals are thriving, despite some of the warmest and most acidic waters in the world. In this virtual reality experience, Lukas Isa... (2018)


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The problems with rebuilding beaches - Vox

Beach nourishment is the latest chapter in a never-ending tale of erosion. About 80 to 90 percent of sandy bea... (2018)


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TEDed - What is the tragedy of the commons? - Nicholas Amendolare

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-nicholas-amendolare... (2018)


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How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory | TED

"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's hap... (2018)


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Go Outside - Repellent Radio

Using radio music to repel mosquitoes This is "Go Outside - Repellent Radio" by bruno bomediano garcia on Vimeo "Go Outside's Repellent Radio... (2017)


Podcast

Making old buildings resilient to climate change requires new financial tools - Marketplace

It's one thing to install new energy systems. It's another to get the money to do it. Donnel Baird, BlocPower’s founder and CEO, said retrofitti... (2020)


Podcast

The world's first "nature superpower" | Ilona Szabó de Carvalho

Over the last 40 years, Brazil has lost an area larger than California to deforestation — and 90 percent of the clear-cutting has been illegal, all... (2025)


Podcast

Dematerialization and What It Means for the Economy — and Climate Change - Harvard Business Review (podcast)

Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, explains how the U.S. economy is growing and actually using less and less ... (2019)


Podcast

An Investment Expert Says Florida Homeowners Should Sell Property Now As Climate Impacts Worsen | WLRN

An expert on the impact of climate change on financial markets has advice for anyone thinking of buying a home in Florida: don’t. Spencer Glendon o... (2019)


Podcast

National Sword - 99% Invisible

Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Material... (2019)


Podcast

Should We Dim the Skies to Save the World? Podcast Crazy/ Genius from The Atlantic on Spotify

Climate change could be the most important problem facing humanity. To address it, scientists are thinking seriously about an idea that might sound... (2018)


Podcast

Fire and Rain -- Floods after Forest Fires || 99% Invisible

Nestled between the mountains and the ocean, right next to Santa Barbara, sits Montecito, California. The community is charming and geographically ... (2018)


Podcast

NASA Scientist Says Wind, Flooding And Rainfall Increase The Intensity Of A Hurricane | WLRN

Thousands of scientists are working on research related to climate change and extreme weather. Dr. Tim Hall is one of them. Dr. Hall is a Senior Re... (2018)


Podcast

In Miami, Combating Climate Change Street by Street | The Takeaway | WNYC Studios

In light of sea-level-rise threats, local organizations have begun to shift their missions towards resources and solutions in greater Miami that co... (2018)


Book

Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier | IndieBound.org

"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)


Website

Resource Library | National Geographic Education

a collection of educational resources, in a Resource Library - from the National Geographic Foundation (2019)


Website

Frontier - An advance market commitment (AMC) to accelerate carbon removal

Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy an initial $925M of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030. It’s funded by Stripe, Alpha... (2022)


Website

Flood Factor - Find Your Home's Flood Factor

Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to find their property’s past ... (2020)


Website

Changing Seas TV - PBS

Now in its 10th Season, Changing Seas is a public television series produced by WPBT2 South Florida PBS in Miami, Florida. Since 2009, the series h... (2019)


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