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Environment

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Environmental Research Center Opens Its Doors for Family Day

Family Fall Day gives visitors the chance to see research on the bay up close

The Global Change Research Wetland at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Why Smithsonian’s Environmental Staff Like Science

Science is our attempt to figure out the inner workings of a very messy world

Tangier Island is located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, just south of the Maryland line.

Tangier Island and the Way of the Watermen

In the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, a culture struggles to survive as aquatic life becomes scarce

A vegetable garden and less bottled water can help turn the White House "green."

Energy Efficiency at the White House

How environmental change can begin at the president’s home

Photovoltaic panels are ideally suited to remote locations, as in this island community in Denmark, where the infrastructure required to connect to a centralized power grid is prohibitively expensive or too destructive to the natural landscape.

Energy Saving Lessons From Around the World

The curator of an exhibit at the National Building Museum highlights case studies of community involvement in energy conservation

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Rebuilding Greensburg Green

Everyone assumed this Kansas town was destined to fade away. What would it take to reverse its course?

The Hoover Dam in 1933

Excessive Withholding

Household items made of various types of plastic

Cut Your Use of Plastic, Plastic, Plastic

Recycling isn’t enough

Flooding the Grand Canyon

Bright Moon, Warm Earth?

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