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7 climbers from historic all-Black expedition conquer Mount Everest, reaching new heights of achievement

7 climbers from historic all-Black expedition conquer Mount Everest, reaching new heights of achievement

History was made as the first all-Black team successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest

Wēouthir
Wēouthir
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Offshore wind farms could help capture carbon from air and store it long-term – using energy that would otherwise go to waste

Offshore wind farms could help capture carbon from air and store it long-term – using energy that would otherwise go to waste

Off the Massachusetts and New York coasts, developers are preparing to build the United States’ first federally approved utility-scale offshore wind farms – 74 turbines in all that could power 470,000 homes.

David Goldberg
David Goldberg
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Driverless cars won’t be good for the environment if they lead to more auto use

Driverless cars won’t be good for the environment if they lead to more auto use

For years, self-driving car technology has remained tantalizingly just beyond the horizon. Bold predictions notwithstanding, fully automated vehicles still haven’t appeared in showrooms. But the technology appears poised for a leap forward in 2022.

Giovanni Circella
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People on Malekula’s Island speak more than 30 Indigenous languages. Here’s why we must record them

People on Malekula’s Island speak more than 30 Indigenous languages. Here’s why we must record them

Malekula, the second-largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago, has a linguistic connection to Aotearoa.

Julie Barbour
Julie Barbour
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Crowdsourcing the Serengeti: How citizen scientists classified millions of photos from home

Crowdsourcing the Serengeti: How citizen scientists classified millions of photos from home

At this very moment in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, more than 200 hidden cameras are snapping photos day and night, capturing the secret lives of the Serengeti’s most elusive animals.

Alexandra Swanson
Alexandra Swanson
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An environmental sociologist explains how permaculture offers a path to climate justice

An environmental sociologist explains how permaculture offers a path to climate justice

Big farming is both a victim of climate change and a contributor.

Christina Ergas
Christina Ergas
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Conservationists see rare nature sanctuaries. Black farmers see a legacy bought out from under them

Conservationists see rare nature sanctuaries. Black farmers see a legacy bought out from under them

Years of protest have done little to dissuade those pushing for more land to be dedicated for conservation.

Tony Briscoe
Tony Briscoe
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Land loss has plagued Black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘Black commons’ and collective ownership?

Land loss has plagued Black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘Black commons’ and collective ownership?

The “40 acres and a mule” promised to formerly enslaved Africans never came to pass. There was no redistribution of land, no reparations for the wealth extracted from stolen land by stolen labor.

Julian Aqyeman
Julian Aqyeman
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How to close heirs’ property loopholes

How to close heirs’ property loopholes

One attorney called heirs’ property “the worst problem you never heard of.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recognized it as “the leading cause of Black involuntary land loss.”

Lizzie Presser
Lizzie Presser
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What is bioluminescence and how is it used by humans and in nature?

What is bioluminescence and how is it used by humans and in nature?

We now know, however, that bioluminescence has evolved independently at least 40 times on land and in the sea.

Catrin F. Williams
Catrin F. Williams
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