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Environment

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New Report Says Climate Change Will Severely Affect Americans

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Discovery to Launch Green Living Channel

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Heating Up and Exposing a Divide

Covering the Earth

A collection of Smithsonian’s recent environmental stories

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Seal Hunt Goes on Despite Melting Ice

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No Ice in Arctic Means No Snow in Aspen

Typical Bank of America local office in Los Angeles

Bank of America is Seeing Green

Roald Amundsen and his crew looking at the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, 1911

Antarctica’s Lost & Found Dept.

IKEA’s $.05 Campaign to Save the Environment

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Scannable Birds? New DNA Barcodes Classify Nature

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Seeds Kept Safe in Arctic Circle Vault

Corn is the main feedstock used for producing ethanol fuel in the United States.

Finding Alternatives to Bush’s Alternative Fuels

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How Many Politicians Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?

Black and white-furred gray wolves

In Danger of Endangerment

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Top 10 Polluted Cities

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Warm Temperatures Get Zoo Animals Steamy

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Wild Things: Life As We Know It

Figs, canary songs, whales with legs, ancient flowering shrubs and beaver dams

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The Dying of the Dead Sea

The ancient salt sea is the site of a looming environmental catastrophe

Raymond Tritt, 52, dresses a fallen bull on the spring caribou hunt. Like virtually every Gwich'in man, he still remembers every detail of his first successful hunt, four decades later. The 100,000-plus caribou of the Porcupine River herd are a focal point for the Gwich'in people: they are a main source of sustenance as well as the key element in the group's rituals, dances and stories. "If we lose the caribou," says a tribal elder, "we lose our way of life."

ANWR: The Great Divide

The renewed debate over drilling for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge hits home for the two Native groups nearest the nature preserve

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Will the Dunes March Once Again?

As recently as 200 years ago, dunes and sheet sand were active throughout the Great Plains. A serious drought could bring them back

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