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Watch: 'The Audacity to Dream'

Debuted earlier this month at the International Space University, this short film invites a new generation to imagine and explore the universe's secrets.




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Ocean of acid blamed for Earth's 'great dying'

Death by acid was the fate of the sea monsters that perished in Earth's biggest mass extinction, some 251 million years ago.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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This couple created and hiked a new 2,600-mile loop through the Pacific Northwest

The UP North Loop offers a unique but daunting tour through an array of wild landscapes.




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Illegal marijuana farms are poisoning Pacific fishers

A threatened species is on the brink of disappearing as pot farms on public land dish out poisoned baits for wildlife.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Obama's Pacific trip brings climate agreements and challenges

As the president leapfrogs from India to Indonesia to Seoul, he's making deals on green energy in the hopes of curbing climate change.



  • Climate & Weather

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The Golden Arrow resort in Lake Placid, N.Y., goes green

Read about all about the green happenin's at this resort hotel hugging Lake Placid's Mirror Lake.




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GM facility earns Energy Star certification

The General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly Plant receives recognition for energy efficiency measures.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Which cities are embracing the green revolution? [Infographic]

How do these global cities stack up in being green?




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Voracious invasive worm could eat all the snails in Europe

No more escargot? An invasive worm known to have an insatiable appetite for snails is invading Europe.




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Mom starts Facebook page to collect birthday wishes for ostracized son

The boy who eats lunch alone in the school office everyday because no one will sit with him now has more than 1.2 million likes on his Facebook birthday page.




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These 10 cities are embracing 100% renewable energy

St. Louis, Orlando and Minneapolis are featured in a new Sierra Club report on the growing number of American cities rejecting fossil fuels.




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1 in 8 bird species are facing extinction, including some beloved ones

Many well-known bird species are in danger of going extinct, according to the State of the World’s Birds 2018 report.




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Ocean acidification may be fastest in 300 million years

The world's oceans are turning acidic even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56 million years ago.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Kids get vocal about the interracial family Cheerios commercial

The commercial received so many negative comments on YouTube that the comments section was disabled.




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Cap and trade is facing obstacles across the country

Cap and trade may finally be finished in Washington, but it's been dying elsewhere for a while.




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Painting a mountain to save a glacier

World Bank backs desperate attempt to restore a glacier in Peru using nothing more than whitewash.



  • Research & Innovations

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Coast Guard works to locate WWII aviators entombed in glacier

Searchers attempt to find the flyers, who crashed in Greenland in 1942, before they disappear into the sea.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Gigantic iceberg may break off from Antarctic glacier

A huge, emerging crack has been discovered in one of Antarctica's glaciers, with a NASA plane mission providing the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Disappearing glacier caught on film

In mere days this June, a glacial lake in the Himalayas lost the equivalent of 42 Olympic-size swimming pools of water and then slowly refilled. And for the fir



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Time-lapse video: Glacier melts in Patagonia

Scientists took 1,445 photos of Chile's Jorge Montt glacier between 2010 and 2011, creating a time-lapse video of its dramatic retreat.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Greenland's glaciers are on the move

Greenland's ice sheet is on the move, with new images showing its glaciers moving 30 percent faster than they were a decade ago. Greenland and Antarctica are ho



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Long-lost photos reveal true tale of Greenland's glaciers

A set of 80-year-old photographs discovered in a basement archive reveals the remarkable sensitivity of Greenland's glaciers to climate change, according to a n



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Huge photo brings melting glacier to life

Austria's Pasterze Glacier is quickly disappearing, but thanks to this giant, super-zoomable photo, at least you can see it up close before it's gone.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Snow fills Antarctic glacier rift

The prominent rift that opened up last in year in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier has widened and filled with snow, according to NASA.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Science lab operates inside Norwegian glacier

Nearly 700 feet (more than 200 meters) under the Svartisen glacier in northern Norway, researchers are huddled together underground.



  • Research & Innovations

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Andes glaciers vanishing rapidly, study finds

The glaciers of the Andes Mountains have retreated at an unprecedented rate in the past three decades.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Spectacular splintering of Perito Moreno glacier caught on film

A tourist was able to photograph the epic collapse of Patagonian ice bridge Perito Moreno into an icy lake below.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Big melt expected for Canadian Arctic glaciers

Scientists used computer models to predict how the glaciers would respond to future climate change, and the results were not reassuring.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Melting glaciers responsible for one-third of sea-level rise

The world's glaciers lost 260 gigatons of water each year between 2003 and 2009, making them responsible for almost a third of sea-level rise.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Plants resurrected after 400 years under a glacier

As global warming causes glaciers to retreat, long-dormant plants could be reborn.



  • Climate & Weather

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Ocean drilling expedition sets sail to probe glacier changes

Examining layers of offshore sediment can provide insight into the link between glaciers and climate change.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Iceberg size of Chicago breaks off Antarctica glacier

A massive iceberg, larger than the city of Chicago, broke off of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier influenced by La Nina

Typically thought of as a tropical climate pattern, the influence of La Niña spreads as far as Antarctica.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Are West Antarctica's glaciers speeding toward collapse?

Researchers who have analyzed satellite images of the icy region suggest that the glaciers' acceleration may be cause for concern.



  • Climate & Weather

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Belly-flopping icebergs could help track glaciers

Icebergs that tumble into the ocean are the source of unusual "earthquakes" recorded at Alaskan glaciers.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Researchers map the world's glaciers (all 200,000 of them)

The recently completed catalog will help researchers understand the effects of climate change and address water issues of local communities.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Hidden volcanoes melt Antarctic glaciers from below

Antarctica is a land of ice. But dive below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and you'll find fire as well, in the form of subglacial volcanoes.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Glacier caves: As fleeting as they are fascinating

These caves may be beautiful, but they are often unstable and dangerous to explore due to persistent glacial motion and melting.




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How Greenland got its glaciers

Greenland is famous for its massive glaciers, but the region was relatively free of ice until about 2.7 million years ago.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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It's that time of year when the Swiss wrap their famed glacier in blankets — and hope

Massive UV-resistant blankets are designed to slow down the melt.



  • Climate & Weather

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Why building walls to save glaciers isn't such a crazy idea

A study from the European Geosciences Union suggests that undersea barriers could limit sea level rise related to melting glaciers.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Dramatic videos capture the moment a massive iceberg breaks away from a glacier

Researchers in Greenland are studying how warming glaciers relate to sea level rise around the world. They had a front-row seat to the Helheim glacier calving.



  • Climate & Weather

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The bittersweet beauty of Greenland's melting glaciers

These aerial images highlight the devastating effect global warming has on the arctic.



  • Climate & Weather

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Experimental project to clean Pacific Ocean garbage patch

I've been covering the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the past year or so and just wrote about it here on MNN last week.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Scripps sails out to the Great Pacific Ocean Patch

Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography traveled out to a spot of sea 1,000 miles from shore and were sad to find plastic everywhere.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Take a cruise to the North Pacific garbage patch

For a mere $10,000, you can book a seat on a 20-day working cruise to a giant patch of floating plastic trash.




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Fish ingesting plastic from Great Pacific Garbage Patch

A new study by two graduate students from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego found that a little over nine percent of the fish that swim ne




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Tsunami debris adds to Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The trash accumulating in the Pacific Ocean — scientists estimate there are 1.5 million tons of tsunami debris alone — is arriving on the West Coast.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Tiny monsters haunt the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

A single-celled, coral-killing creature with 'devil horns' has been found on microplastics in the open ocean.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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How we made the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Angela Sun investigated several aspects of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in her documentary "Plastic Paradise."



  • Arts & Culture