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More than 390 million plastic straws are used every day in the United States, most for 30 minutes or less, according to ...

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Trump’s White House is on the verge of firing EPA staff with probationary status, and has removed prominent agency references ...

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It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

Colorado's forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees -- mostly due to insects and disease -- have caused the state's forests to emit more carbon than they absorbed in recent years, ...