Environment
Ecology, climate science, conservation, and environmental issues
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Environment
Idling cargo ships use enough electricity to power cities
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Environment
Electric vehicles convert energy into motion nearly nine times more efficiently than gasoline engines
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Modern solar panels are physically incompatible with mounting systems designed just ten years ago
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Ancient Roman stone mulching techniques can help modern soils retain thirty percent more water
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Environment
Nighttime temperatures in many cities are rising twice as fast as daytime highs
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Environment
The strongest bond in organic chemistry allows some man-made molecules to last centuries
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Invisible plastic fragments in the ocean can be thousands of times smaller than a human hair
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Agricultural waste like straw can be converted into fuel with the same energy density as gasoline
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A single country's carbon emissions can cause trillions in economic damage across other continents
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Drones can now mimic bird flocks to monitor the health of entire forests
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Environment
Aerial fire retardants use fluid dynamics to create a chemical barrier on forest canopies
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Environment
Warming permafrost can cause massive steel ski towers to tilt and fail
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Earth is currently trapping enough excess heat to equal several atomic bombs per second
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Regional winds can temporarily mask the global thinning of Arctic sea ice
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A weakening ocean current system keeps Europe ten degrees warmer than it should be
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