Ecology

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How Earth Day Works—and Why It Changed the World Science

How Earth Day Works—and Why It Changed the World

Earth Day began as a campus teach-in in 1970 and grew into the largest secular civic event on the planet, directly spawning the EPA and landmark envir...

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How Microplastics Enter Your Body—and What They Do Science

How Microplastics Enter Your Body—and What They Do

Microplastics reach the human body through food, water, and air, accumulating in organs from the lungs to the brain. Here's what science knows about h...

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How the Clean Air Act Works—and Why It Saves Lives Science

How the Clean Air Act Works—and Why It Saves Lives

The Clean Air Act is one of the most consequential environmental laws ever written, preventing hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and cutting m...

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How the Goldman Environmental Prize Works—the Green Nobel Science

How the Goldman Environmental Prize Works—the Green Nobel

The Goldman Environmental Prize, often called the Green Nobel, honors six grassroots environmental activists each year — one from each inhabited conti...

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What Is the Dolomite Problem—Geology's 200-Year Puzzle Science

What Is the Dolomite Problem—Geology's 200-Year Puzzle

Dolomite is one of Earth's most common minerals, yet for two centuries no one could grow it in a lab. Here's how the 'dolomite problem' stumped scient...

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How Microbial Fuel Cells Work—Electricity From Dirt Science

How Microbial Fuel Cells Work—Electricity From Dirt

Microbial fuel cells harness bacteria that naturally release electrons as they digest organic matter, turning soil and wastewater into small but stead...

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How Bioluminescence Works—Nature's Cold Light Science

How Bioluminescence Works—Nature's Cold Light

Bioluminescence lets organisms produce their own light through a chemical reaction between luciferin and luciferase. From deep-sea creatures to firefl...

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How Coral Bleaching Works—and Why Reefs Are Dying Science

How Coral Bleaching Works—and Why Reefs Are Dying

Coral bleaching occurs when rising ocean temperatures break the symbiotic bond between corals and the algae that feed them, turning reefs white and th...

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How Lithium Mining Works—From Brine to Battery Technology

How Lithium Mining Works—From Brine to Battery

Lithium powers every rechargeable device and electric vehicle on the planet, yet most people have no idea how it reaches a battery. This explainer bre...

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How Glacier Surges Work—and Why They Threaten Millions Science

How Glacier Surges Work—and Why They Threaten Millions

Surging glaciers can accelerate to 100 times their normal speed, damming rivers, triggering catastrophic floods, and destroying infrastructure. Here i...

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How the Montreal Protocol Works—and Why It Saved the Ozone Science

How the Montreal Protocol Works—and Why It Saved the Ozone

The Montreal Protocol, signed in 1987 and ratified by every UN member, phased out over 98 percent of ozone-depleting chemicals. Here is how the treaty...

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How Ticks Spread Disease—From Bite to Bloodstream Health

How Ticks Spread Disease—From Bite to Bloodstream

Tick-borne diseases affect hundreds of thousands of people each year. Here's how these tiny arachnids transmit pathogens, which diseases they carry, w...

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