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Protecting the ozone layer is delivering vast health benefits

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Water and sunlight convert single-use plastic bags into dissolved compounds

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Coral microbiome is key to surviving climate change, new study finds

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Tracking water storage shows options for improving water management during floods and droughts

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Measuring electric current in soil could provide answers on soil health

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Dosing the coast: Baltimore County's leaky pipes are medicating the Chesapeake Bay

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For trees, carbs are key to surviving insect defoliation

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Wildfire smoke may lead to less rain in the western US

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Trapped salt water caused mangrove death after Hurricane Irma

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New tests can detect tiny but toxic particles of coal ash in soil

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Why is the eastern monarch butterfly disappearing?

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Last ice-covered parts of summertime Arctic Ocean vulnerable to climate change

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Secret to weathering climate change could lie at our feet

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Scientists resurrect 'forgotten' genus of marine algae

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Making cities naturally safe from supply chain shocks

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Large-scale wetlands construction seen as effective treatment for farm runoff

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Earth's vegetation is changing faster today than it has over the last 18,000 years

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Discovery increases likelihood of growing food despite drought

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Heat stress in U.S. may double by century's end

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Channel migration plays leading role in river network evolution, study finds

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Researchers begin to decipher the sea urchin microbiome

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A diversity of wildlife is good for human health

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Thicker-leaved tropical plants may flourish under climate change

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Extreme melt on Antarctica's George VI Ice Shelf

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Climate change forces rethinking of conservation biology planning

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By the late 21st century, the number of people suffering extreme droughts will double

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Managing salt pollution to protect drinking water resources and freshwater ecosystems

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Colorado mountains bouncing back from acid rain effects

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Drones over the Amazon

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Once-in-a-lifetime floods to become regular occurrences by end of century

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