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News Articles: Environment

A honeybee pollinating a flower

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  • Environment

Savannah abuzz with excitement to join bee conservation network of cities nationwide

The national program Bee City USA fosters habitat restoration and pesticide reduction.

December 26, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Sophie Hediger takes 2nd place during the FIS Snowboard Cross World Cup Men's and Women's Snowboard Cross on Jan. 26, 2024, in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

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  • Environment

Snowboarder's death in Swiss Alps avalanche is a reminder that even pros face risk

The death of an Olympic snowboarding athlete is a reminder that even the most skilled and experienced athletes are not immune to the threat of avalanches, and that knowledge is key to staying safe.

December 25, 2024
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By:
  • Michael Levitt
A longleaf pine forest on private land in Middle Georgia.

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  • Environment

Longleaf pine growth on the rise in Georgia and the Southeast, study finds

Conservation efforts are to thank, but natural regrowth remains slow.

December 25, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
The average temperature across the globe in 2024 set a record. Climate change is helping drive longer and more intense heat waves.

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  • Climate

2023 was extremely hot. Then came 2024

It's looking like 2024 will be the hottest year since record-keeping began, unseating 2023 for the top spot. Climate change is playing a role, and scientists say it was even hotter than expected.

December 24, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Trucks move past cargo containers at a port in Bayonne, N.J., in 2021. The state is adopting California's Advanced Clean Trucks rules, which require at least 7% of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission for model year 2025. Dealers are petitioning for a delay, so far unsuccessfully.

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  • Business

'We are not California': New Jersey dealers push back on electric truck rules

Vehicle dealers are pushing back on rules that would increase the number of electric trucks sold in New Jersey. It could be a preview of a brewing fight over state rules about cars.

December 23, 2024
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Visitors look at a tiled memorial wall displaying names of victims from the tsunami 2004 in Tsunami memorial park, at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand.

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  • World

Trauma lingers on for survivors of the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

One of modern history's worst natural disasters, the tsunami left about 230,000 dead across a dozen countries.

December 23, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
After spinning near the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica for months, the world's largest iceberg, A23a, has broken free and is floating in the Southern Ocean.

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  • Science

Watch: Satellite video shows world's biggest iceberg, A23a, break free

About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for months. Now, it's free, and heading back into open Antarctic waters.

December 20, 2024
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
A six-pack of plastic water bottles is shown being held together by a paper-based holder.

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  • News

Sustainable packaging giant with Georgia connections being sold to International Paper

International Paper seeks to buy DS Smith, with its North American headquarters in Atlanta and a paper mill on Georgia's coast, for $7 billion.

December 19, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya
Ana Garcia, a farm worker who lives in South Gerogia, stands in her dining room, newly sheet rocked by her husband in the days after Hurricane Helene. Many farm workers live in trailers or housing that's not fit to weather natural disasters, but because of their legal status, they cannot access help.

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  • News

Georgia farm workers feel the burden of disaster recovery

It will take years before farms hit hard by Hurricane Helene can recover. That devastation extends to communities of immigrant farm workers, who have largely been left out of storm relief programs. 

December 18, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm talks during a session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit Nov. 15, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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  • Climate

Energy chief Granholm warns against 'unfettered exports' of liquefied natural gas

Granholm's statement came as the Energy Department released a long-awaited study that found U.S. LNG shipments drive up domestic wholesale prices and frequently displace renewable energy sources.

December 18, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Floating oyster cage

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  • Environment

Georgia DNR plans special zone for oyster farming near Jekyll Island

Two similar sites are already operational further up Georgia's coast.

December 11, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Monarch butterflies from Canada stop to rest in Cleveland's Wendy Park on their way to Mexico on Sept. 12, 2023.

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  • Environment

Monarch butterflies will get federal protections as a threatened species

U.S. officials decided to extend protections to monarch butterflies after warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking and the beloved pollinator may not survive climate change.

December 10, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A hundred or so people in church pews in various stages of engagement in a public conversation.

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  • Environment

Decades-long dispute over whether coal ash made Monroe County residents ill is settled out of court

Long-running lawsuits brought against Georgia Power by residents of the Monroe County town of Juliette have been resolved "to the satisfaction of both parties."

December 10, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The Arctic tundra is warming up and that's causing long-frozen ground to melt as well as an increase in wildfires. The region is "now emitting more carbon that it stores, which will worsen climate change impacts," explained NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad in a statement.

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  • Climate

Arctic tundra now emits planet-warming pollution, federal report finds

Arctic tundra is releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as hotter temperatures melt frozen ground and wildfires increase.

December 10, 2024
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By:
  • Barbara Moran
People protect themselves from the sun during a heat wave in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2024. Temperatures topped 110 degrees Fahrenheit across many parts of the country during the heat wave. A new study finds that young people are disproportionately at risk from extreme heat in the country.

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  • Climate

Young people are dying of heat and their risks could grow, study finds

Scientists have pointed out that extreme heat is particularly dangerous for older people. A new study shows that young, healthy people are also dying too often in extreme weather.

December 06, 2024
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  • Alejandra Borunda
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