The Cuyahoga River
Once one of the most polluted rivers in the world, the Cuyahoga River literally caught fire multiple times.
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Did You Know That Plants Can Respond To Sound?
A growing body of research suggests that sound waves prompt certain plant species to actively respond.
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Why Are The Saiga Antelopes Going Extinct?
Disease and anthropogenic factors alike threaten to wipe these bovids and their curious noses off the face of the earth.
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Did You Know There Is A Deadly Boiling River In Peru That Dooms All That Fall In It?
You may know all about hot springs, but do you know about this boiling river and how fragile its ecosystems are?
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What Is Red Ivory, And How Is Its Trade Threatening The Helmeted Hornbill?
The keratin wedge formations atop the crests of male Helmeted hornbills' crests are in high demand to create red ivory, an ornamental luxury.
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Is Bioremediation An Effective Way To Decontaminate Our Planet?
Many see significant promise in the use of macro- and microorganisms to break down toxic substances and decontaminate dangerous areas.
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What Is The Svalbard Global Seed Vault?
This seed vault on a far northern island of Norway promises to help ensure the protection of the earth's flora biodiversity in the event of a global catastrophe.
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Where Is The Qattara Depression?
One of the lowest areas on earth covers almost 20,000 square miles in northwestern Egypt.
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What Is The Rain Shadow Effect?
Often times, mountains stand as barriers preventing precipitation from falling over certain areas.
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The Saint Clair River
One of the most commercially significant North American rivers spans around 40 miles along the U.S.-Canadian border, part of the larger Great Lakes Waterway.
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What Is Silt, And How Does it Impact The Environment?
A double-edged sword, siltation can positively enrich croplands or negatively choke out biodiversity.
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What Was The Kyoto Protocol?
Signed in 1997 and effective a little more than 7 years later, these extensions of the UNFCCC were a landmark achievement in international environmental legislation.
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The Susquehanna River
One of the largest, most important rivers in the U.S. flows for 465 miles through Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York.
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Where Is The Island Of Tahiti?
The largest of the Windward Islands of French Polynesia covers an area of 400 square miles.
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Are Vampire Bats Really Real?
What do you really know about these three New World species of blood thirsty creatures?
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How Is Global Warming Causing Methane Blowholes, And How Do They Cause Climate Change?
Anthropogenic climate change is contributing to methane blowholes in the Arctic, which are in turn worsening global warming in a self-perpetuating cycle.
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What Is Fracking, And Is It Harmful?
Hydraulic fracturing is a controversial innovation used for extracting natural gas and petroleum reserves.
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How Do Beavers Build Dams?
Beavers are some of the most skillful tree fellers and dam builders on planet earth.
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Where Is The Mariana Trench and Challenger Deep?
The deepest part of the earth's oceans reaches 36,070 feet below the surface at a point known as Challenger Deep.
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Is the Bermuda Triangle Really Cursed?
Miami, Florida in the U.S., the island of Bermuda, and San Juan in Puerto Rico are often considered the three corners of the "paranormal" Bermuda Triangle.
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