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Offshore Wind

President Biden is calling for doubling renewable energy production from offshore wind facilities like this one off Rhode Island by 2030. ((Michael Dwyer/AP Images)
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By | 3 February, 2021 | Categories:

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Arctic Climate Change

The United States is renewing its leadership in battling climate change, which is contributing to the melting of icebergs such as this one off Ammassalik Island in Greenland. (John McConnico/AP Images)
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By | 26 January, 2021 | Categories:

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Oceans

A magnificent photo of sea, swell, sky, and a monk seal swimming over a coral reef bottom, Hawaii, Northwest Hawaiian Islands. (NOAA/PIFSC/HMSRP)
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By | 4 June, 2020 | Categories:

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Several nations claim Subi Reef, in the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands. By June 2015, China had dredged and reclaimed over 6 million square meters

Several nations claim Subi Reef, in the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands. By June 2015, China had dredged and reclaimed over 6 million square meters of land in the area. Land-reclamation efforts like this one damage coral and other marine life, and the livelihood of surrounding fishing communities. (CSIS/AMTI)
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By | 11 July, 2016 | Categories:

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landfill

Materials that would ordinarily be dumped in landfill have found new life thanks to the U.S. Materials Marketplace, which matches one business’s industrial waste with other businesses that can use it for profit.
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By | 1 April, 2016 | Categories:

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