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The Arctic is becoming lush, and that's a problem

Scientists discovered that plants in the Arctic are growing twice the height.




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International agreement bans commercial fishing in the Arctic

As melting ice opens up new potential for exploitation in the Arctic, a new ban aims to protect much of the fragile ecosystem.




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Video shows stunning loss of oldest Arctic sea ice in last 30 years

A new NOAA report reveals we've lost 95% of the Arctic's oldest, thickest sea ice. Here's what that looks like.




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Best way to cut Arctic "black carbon"? Stop burning fossil fuels

70% of this potent pollutant comes from fossil fuels, not biomass burning.




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The Arctic coastline is falling into the sea

In 40 days over the summer, the coast had retreated by 14.5 meters, sometimes more than a meter a day.




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Big cruise ships in the Arctic are a bad idea

An Arctic explorer calls for 'party ships' to be kept out of this sensitive and remote part of the world.




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Barns are being lost and stolen in search of "rustic chic" interior design

A lot of our history is being lost so that people can get that popular look.




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The circular economy comes to your living room

How to choose things for your home that have had, or can have, second lives.




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Artist's architectural illusions transforming urban walls (Video)

Blank city walls are huge canvases for this artist transforming our perception of ordinary buildings.




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Women With High PBDE Levels 50 Percent Slower to Conceive, New Study Says

Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section.




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Irregular Neon Fence Lights Up Parking Lot in Buenos Aires, Changes Fencing Perception

Parking lots will never be green, period. But design can make them less of an eye sore. And who knew a fence could look cool?




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Walmart Introduces Supercube Tractor Trailers to increase fuel economy, get trucks off the road

There are a lot of good ideas in this truck; will they catch on?




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Wood that wows: Teeple Architects' Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum

It's all about the amazing connections.




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Fashion firm Marimekko turns to birch tree based alternative to water-intensive cotton

With demand for natural textiles spiking, sustainable companies need to look beyond pesticide- and water-intensive cotton




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Gratitude exercises don't help with depression or anxiety

Telling people to be grateful for what they have doesn't help alleviate symptoms of depression or anxiety, according to new research.




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Nature Conservancy Land Purchase Could Save Alabama's Red Hills Salamander

A little salamander that is found in only a




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This Black Friday, Occupy Main Street; Shop At A Local, Small Independent Merchant

Lets declare a day of non-action, of unoccupying the big box stores. Instead, let's support our local, green neighborhood shops that need our custom.




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Will Hooping Green Your Exercise Routine?

Bill Nye was the guy that said driving your car to the gym is literally insane - why not reclaim a piece of childhood through hooping?




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8 storey Cross-Laminated Timber apartments win Finlandia Prize for Architecture

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."




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Governor General's Medals for Architecture in Canada unveiled

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly




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2017 Architizer Awards are "a stunning celebration of innovative architecture"

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.




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Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to scientists studying circadian rhythms

Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve.




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Roots Architecture at WOMAD 2011 - A Game of Structural Consequences (Video)

What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD




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DIY dome homes built from AirCrete are an affordable & ecofriendly option

First there was foamcrete, then there was papercrete and hempcrete, and now we've got AirCrete, a foamy mixture of air bubbles and cement.




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Lighten up: Primary steel production is responsible for up to 9 percent of CO2 emissions

We have to use less of the stuff in our cars, our buildings, and our infrastructure.




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How a 1% surcharge on restaurant bills can help fight climate change

It's a curious reversal of the farm-to-table movement.




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Architects have to deal with the "wicked problem of embodied carbon."

A British critic calls two green icons, rammed earth and Passivhaus, "architectural trickery at its most cynical."




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Cepezed's new offices are a demonstration of circular design

Design for deconstruction out of low-carbon materials is the way of the future.




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In praise of Brutalist architecture

The ones we have left should be preserved; they don't make them like they used to.




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ETH robot builds curvy reinforced concrete wall

Is this the future of construction?




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Should Billionaires Be Forced to Pay a 1% Tax for International Development?

A new UN report says that a 1% tax levies on the world's 1,225 billionaires would more than make up for the shortfall in development aid from governments.




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Researchers produce electricity with paper, tape and a pencil

The device made from household objects could replace AA batteries for powering small electronics.




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New e-commerce site is a one-stop-shop for humanitarian aid products

The Level Market wants to make the procurement of humanitarian aid and development products as easy as shopping on Amazon.




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Waste Reduction Week reminds us to think circular year-round

How will you promote actions that divert more waste from disposal and conserve natural resources?




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Cue the Q4 holiday overconsumption

The most wonderful time of the year is often the most wasteful




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All-electric commercial airplane takes first flight

“December 10, 2019 will be remembered as the day the electric aviation age started.”




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Artist's intricate newspaper papercuts carve out a deeper story

These delicate works of art are made out of current and vintage newspaper broadsheets, and prompt us to look beyond the daily news cycle.




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Circular logic: Round runways could save a lot of land, reduce fuel consumption and cut noise

This is not a joke. It is also a teaching moment about blogging.




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Rock in a box with Arkitema Architects' shipping container housing project

Using shipping containers for housing near a Danish rock music museum makes sense, sort of.




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Cows, Goats Escape from Slaughterhouse, Only to be Forced Back In

Dozens of sheep and goats broke out of a slaughterhouse in upstate New York on Tuesday night, and gave police quite the runaround.




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California's iconic fog is bringing super-toxic mercury ashore

Researchers find that the neurotoxin is carried in by coastal fog, deposited on the land, and then makes its way up the food chain where it is approaching toxic thresholds in pumas.




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Data storage could soon be 8 percent of the world's energy use

There is a real footprint to all those baby pictures and Netflix binges.




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Eat sea urchins to save the oceans

These spiny little animals are in desperate need of population control, and our sushi habits could help.




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Border Region Looks to Desalination to Counter a Parched Rio Grande

We´ve noted in the past plans for new desalination plants in Australia and low-grade energy desalination technology from New Mexico.




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Researchers Develop Chlorine-Tolerant Membrane for Easy Desalination

Record droughts, falling water tables and the rapid depletion of aquifers have helped make desalination, a process once considered impractical and too expensive, a viable technology -- at least in some places. As such, there has been a rash of stories --




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Observe World Water Day on March 22

Images from Prix Pictet World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 every year, is an initiative of the United Nations that recognises that water is a basic requirement for all life. This year's theme: "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities" and "Whether




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Masdar Developing Desalination Plants Powered by Renewable Sources

The UAE's clean tech giant plans to have a commerical-scale plant by 2020.




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Quebec architects and prefab builders offer "eco-housing kits"

The promise of prefab was healthy, cost-effective, energy efficient homes designed by talented architects. Is it finally here?




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JUPE health is an 'immediate response to hospital overcrowding'

These flat-packed rest-and-recovery units could take the load off hospitals in a hurry.




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RIP Roger Taillibert, architect of the Big O

People have complained about his building since they started pouring the concrete.