Environment

Addiction Recovery Outcomes Are Being Shaped by Environmental Factors More Than Any Other Variable – New Research From West Virginia Is Groundbreaking.

Locals in West Virginia are familiar with a parking lot off Route 60. Not because anything noteworthy occurred there, but rather because of what it stands for: a place where,…
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The UNECE Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders Is Tracking a Disturbing Global Pattern – It’s Getting Worse in America Too.

When someone who attended a public meeting regarding a nearby mine is the subject of a criminal investigation, a certain kind of unease descends upon the community. Not a demonstration.…
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Orlando’s Natural Environment Has Been Broken by Development for Decades – Here’s Why Some Scientists Think It’s Not Too Late to Fix It.

There’s a picture that makes you stop cold. On the left is the Citrus Tower in Clermont, Florida, which was encircled by an ocean of orange groves in 1956. According…
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The Environment America Report on Investing in Nature That Every City Council Member in America Should Read Before the Next Budget Vote

Most citizens wouldn’t be aware of the subtle change taking place in American city halls this spring unless they attended a Tuesday night budget meeting and observed how the body…
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The Cape Cod Oceanographic Institution Just Reimagined the World Map – Why It Won an Award — And Why It Matters for Environmental Science

There’s something subtly satisfying about an old concept making a comeback. The world map that most people have never seen was created by oceanographer Athelstan Spilhaus, who walked the docks…
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The Data Center Emission Fight in Loudoun County Is the Environmental Battle That Will Define How America Powers Its Digital Future

After Dulles, the suburbs begin to lose their gentleness as you drive west from Washington. The strip malls get smaller. The trees return. Then, out of nowhere, the warehouses show…
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The KUTV Investigation Into Data Centers’ Environmental Impact Reveals That America Is Trading Long-Term Resource Security for Short-Term Tech Growth

The area outside Tremonton, Utah, where the next wave of America’s digital economy is expected to take hold, has an odd quiet. Fences, fields, and the odd truck coming onto…
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How Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew’s Global Environmental Leadership Is Changing the Conversation About Faith and Climate Action in America

A soft-spoken man in black robes had been calling climate change a sin for almost forty years, while the majority of the world was still debating its existence. His name…
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