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The Effects of Climate Change Being Felt in Nashville
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Shopping for Environmental Benefits: Using Carbon Capture Technology to Create Consumer Goods
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Global Health Uncovered: The Pakistani Health Crisis after the Flood
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The Role of Algae in the Fight against Pollution
Currently, most algal blooms are nothing but destructive. Many researchers and industries have become interested in the potential of algae as a useful alternative to common contributors of pollution. This article will discuss three of these developing (and some already implemented) uses for algae.
Habitable Exoplanets: A Possible Escape Route?
Over 4000 unique exoplanets – planets that orbit a star outside our solar system – have been discovered in the Milky Way galaxy, but the majority are not suitable for sustaining human life.
What impact does climate change have on the California fires?
With the increasing number and frequency of these natural calamities, we’re faced with two critical questions: how does climate change impact these catastrophes and how much of that impact is driven by humans?
Climate Change, Zoonosis, and Epidemic outbreaks: Disease Outbreaks as the New Normal
Zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases that exist naturally in an animal population and mutate to become viable in the human population upon close contact, have been the cause of history’s most impactful pandemics.