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Oaks excel at supporting the food web (including us). Arbor Day's a good time to plant one

Oaks excel at supporting the food web (including us). Arbor Day's a good time to plant one

In 1872, a Nebraska newspaper editor and tree lover named J. Sterling Morton proposed dedicating a day to planting trees in his home state. The idea, shall we say, took root.
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Your clothes are shedding bits of plastic. Here’s what people are doing about it this Earth Day

Your clothes are shedding bits of plastic. Here’s what people are doing about it this Earth Day

Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear.
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Pope Francis converted to the environmental cause and denounced those he blamed for climate change

Pope Francis converted to the environmental cause and denounced those he blamed for climate change

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Few moments in Pope Francis’ papacy better exemplify his understanding of climate change and the need to address it than the rain-soaked Mass he celebrated in Tacloban, Philippines, in 2015.
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New climate institute at University of Toronto launched with $60M gift

New climate institute at University of Toronto launched with $60M gift

TORONTO — The University of Toronto is launching a new climate institute with the help of a $60-million gift.
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Lawsuits accuse insurers of colluding to drop coverage in fire-prone parts of California

Lawsuits accuse insurers of colluding to drop coverage in fire-prone parts of California

SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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In Wyoming, the Eastern Shoshone tribe decided to classify buffalo as wildlife. Here is why

In Wyoming, the Eastern Shoshone tribe decided to classify buffalo as wildlife. Here is why

Jason Baldes drove down a dusty, sagebrush highway earlier this month, pulling 11 young buffalo in a trailer from Colorado to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. His blue truck has painted on the side a drawing of buffalo and a calf.
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Halifax utility diverting millions of cubic metres of wastewater into harbour, basin

Halifax utility diverting millions of cubic metres of wastewater into harbour, basin

HALIFAX — Halifax's water utility says it needs to divert millions of cubic metres of wastewater into the Halifax harbour and Bedford Basin as part of maintenance work in the coming weeks.
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Book Review: 'Hope Dies Last' visits visionaries fighting global warming

Book Review: 'Hope Dies Last' visits visionaries fighting global warming

Alan Weisman has found an all-world cast of scientists, engineers and environmentalists who have dreamed big and worked passionately to repair some of the world’s wrecked ecosystems and also to develop processes that, for example, use far less energy
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Trump's transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using 'road diets' to slow speeders

Trump's transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using 'road diets' to slow speeders

A stylist was just starting her shift at a salon in Kansas City, Missouri, when a car smashed through the storefront window and landed in the waiting area a few feet away.
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15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawsuits stall and restoration is incomplete

15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawsuits stall and restoration is incomplete

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast , killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation's worst offshore oil spill a
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