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News Articles: Environment

A crew installs a solar array on the roof of a home in Frankfort, Ky., in 2023.

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  • Climate

Rooftop solar has a fraud problem. The industry is working to build back trust

The rooftop solar business is a big source of consumer complaints. Across the country, prosecutors are investigating sales practices and financing arrangements. Now the solar industry is working to repair its reputation.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
Surf from Tropical Storm Debby breaks over a sea wall in Cedar Key, Fla., in August 2024. Abnormally hot ocean water is contributing to a very active Atlantic Hurricane season. Climate change is the main driver of record-breaking ocean temperatures, but scientists are trying to figure out what other causes may be at play.

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  • Climate

The oceans are weirdly hot. Scientists are trying to figure out why

Scientists knew that climate change would cause the oceans to heat up a lot. But current ocean temperatures are even higher than expected.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
 The central European bicolored ant, <em>L. emarginatus</em>, forages along a tree branch in New York City’s Riverside Park.

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  • Science

Meet the ManhattAnt, the ant that's taken New York's streets by storm

The ManhattAnt has become the dominant ant species in the Big Apple, and scientists aren't sure why.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Fringed Campion in bloom in an urban forest in Macon in April 2024.

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  • Climate

In Macon, volunteers fight escaped garden plants to save an endangered native

Because of habitat loss and climate change, rare plants exist in increasingly perilous places. Protecting them means gardening at a landscape scale — one in a most unlikely location: urban Macon.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Conservation biologist Gliselle Marin carefully untangles a bat from a net in Belize during the annual Bat-a-thon. Her fanny pack is decorated with printed bats.

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  • Science

This scientist has a bat tat and earrings. She says there's a lot to learn from bats

Gliselle Marin joins the “Bat-a-thon,” a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals.

August 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
A screenshot of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's satellite system, which monitored iceberg A23a in February as it drifted around the Weddell Sea near the Antarctic Peninsula.

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  • Environment

The world's largest iceberg is stuck twirling in an ocean vortex

Iceberg A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island — has been near the South Orkney Islands since January, completing one full rotation every 24 days or so.

August 12, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
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  • Environment

At the Olympics, reusable plastic cups are a gambit to reduce waste. Are they working?

At the Olympic Games, concession stands serve drinks in reusable plastic "eco-cups." It's a sustainability measure, Olympic organizers say, but environmentalists say they increase waste.

August 10, 2024
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper Alice Volpitta tests water quality in the Jones Falls.

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  • Environment

Like Paris, Baltimore knows the struggle of cleaning up water for swimming

Paris spent billions to clean up the River Seine for Olympic swimming, with mixed results. Baltimore knows how difficult it can be.

August 10, 2024
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By:
  • Adam Bearne
A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky above desert pine trees on Aug. 13, 2015, in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area in Nevada.

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  • Space

The highly anticipated Perseid meteor shower is about to peak. Here's how to watch

The meteor shower creates an opportunity to sit outside at night and watch shooting stars. It's also an opportunity for researchers to do some science.

August 08, 2024
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
peanut plant

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  • News

Warnings go out over possible damage to crops from Debby

Power outages and a high risk of flooding spark concern in South Georgia, with no estimates of full damage yet. 

August 05, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
 A half dozen horses run through sagebrush with the Grand Teton mountains in the background.

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  • National

Wyoming offers to sell land to Grand Teton park -- or it could go to developers

Wyoming lawmakers have given two years for the Grand Teton National Park to buy the Kelly Parcel for $100 million. But the pristine land has become a bargaining chip for other things too.

August 05, 2024
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By:
  • Chris Clements
Despite avoiding plastic for a week, an NPR producer produced about 102 pieces of plastic or mixed-material waste.

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  • News

Readers' picks: 10 deeply engaged stories from July

The Trump assassination attempt and big Paris Olympics stars dominated the headlines in July. Here are some other stories that resonated with readers — but fell under the radar.

August 03, 2024
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By:
  • Britt Cheng
Rev. Barbara Brockman swirls a sample of water mixed with a reagent to prepare for incubation while talking with Luke Roberson, the coordinator of community engagement and outreach on the project from Georgia Southern. Credit: Serra Sowers/The Current

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  • Environment

Brunswick residents join scientists to test water quality near Superfund sites

A partnership between residents of Brunswick and Georgia Southern University’s Institute for Water and Health is hoping to bridge the gaps in data collection in some of Glynn county’s most polluted waters.

August 01, 2024
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By:
  • The Current and
  • Serra Sowers
High angle view of a red tractor in a green field

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  • Environment

‘Sustainable future will depend on land.’ Group studies 50 years of agriculture, changes in land use

The Georgia Conservancy environmental organization highlighted the trends and changes to Georgia's agriculture and land at the first meeting of the Senate Study Committee on Preservation of Georgia's Farmlands on Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

July 31, 2024
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
Boat docks sit on dry cracked earth at the Great Salt Lake's Antelope Island Marina in 2021 near Syracuse, Utah.

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  • National

As the Great Salt Lake dries up, it's also emitting millions of tons of CO2

A new study found that the drying Great Salt Lake in Utah is now a major source of the gas emissions that are causing the climate to warm.

July 28, 2024
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  • Kirk Siegler and
  • Juliana Kim
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