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Shedding Light on Light bulbs: The Ins and Outs of Our Options

August 31st, 2021 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

Don’t be left in the dark when choosing lightbulbs. Lighting accounts for up to 20 percent of a household’s energy [&hellip

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Summer Season Projected to Last Longer

May 31st, 2021 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

A new study by scientists at the State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, in China, and published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, [&hellip

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Wild Birds Trained to Pick Up Litter

May 31st, 2021 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

Crows, capable of complex thought and skilled problem solvers, can also make and use tools. Now, several projects aim to [&hellip

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Olio App Prevents Food Waste

May 31st, 2021 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

Uneaten food often ends up in the trash, but Olio, an app created in 2015 by English entrepreneurs Tessa Clarke and [&hellip

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Rethinking Fireworks

May 31st, 2021 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

Greener Ways to Celebrate the Fourth Synonymous with American Independence Day, fireworks have been around for thousands of years. Earliest [&hellip

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Offshore Wind Power Gaining Momentum

May 31st, 2021 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

An 800-megawatt project, Vineyard Wind, off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, is awaiting final approval by the Army Corps of [&hellip

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World’s Largest Dam Removal Project Underway

May 31st, 2021 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

An agreement finalized in November 2020 between farmers, tribes and dam owners will result in the deconstruction of four aging, [&hellip

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Lithium Mining for Electric Vehicles Creating Tension

May 31st, 2021 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

The proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada, the largest in the U.S., has passed a review by the Bureau of [&hellip

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Sunscreens Harm Hawaiian Reefs

May 31st, 2021 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

Bill 132, banning sunscreens containing the chemicals avobenzone or octocrylene, has progressed through the Hawaiian House and Senate. If it [&hellip

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Critters React to Warming Temperatures in the Rockies

April 30th, 2021 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

A 13-year study at the University of Colorado at Boulder published in the journal Ecology reveals that the popular golden mantled ground squirrel and 46 other [&hellip