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Winners and Losers in the Arctic 01.11.12
Winners and Losers in the Arctic If you’re a Bowhead whale and you spend summers in the Arctic—congratulations! Life is good. But, alas, where there are winners, there are often losers. Condolences to the polar bears and the walruses. You guys are having a tough time of it with the shrinking ice.

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Play Power Up! 08.01.11
Play Power Up! Capture clean energy from the wind and the Sun to produce enough electricity to run the town. Move your wind turbine up and down to keep it in the strongest, fastest winds. Keep your solar panels in the bright sunlight and out of the rain. See if you can light up the whole town. Win the clean energy Platinum Award!

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Huge machine harnesses the tides. 11.18.10
Huge machine harnesses the tides. Energy is everywhere. It’s in the sunlight. It’s in the wind. It’s in the ocean. We can get electricity from the Sun using solar panels and from the wind using wind turbines. But how can we get electricity from the ocean?

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Help Earth: Buy a real Christmas tree! 11.09.10
Help Earth: Buy a real Christmas tree! Help Earth: Buy a real Christmas tree!

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Who is helping? People with Sun power! 09.21.10
Who is helping? People with Sun power! Almost all the energy to power our planet comes from the Sun. But instead of using the kind of solar energy stored up in coal and oil, why not grab it directly from the source?

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Climate change makes sheep shrink and marmots get fat 07.22.10
Climate change makes sheep shrink and marmots get fat Some animals are changing in surprising ways as their environments have grown warmer over the past few years.

Marmots that live in Colorado are a good example. So are wild sheep living on islands near Scotland.

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Who is helping? Share how you and your family are helping the planet. 04.16.10
Who is helping? Share how you and your family are helping the planet. How do you help Earth? Whether at home, school, work, in your neighborhood, or wherever, we want to hear what you are doing for our planet.

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Does harsh winter mean end of global warming? 03.16.10
Does harsh winter mean end of global warming? Brrrrr! This has been a very cold winter in many parts of the U.S. So, what’s up with that? Is global warming slowing down? Or going backwards?

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Who is helping? People who live in tiny houses 01.13.10
Who is helping? People who live in tiny houses Some kids are lucky enough to have a playhouse or a tree house. Wouldn’t it be fun to live in your own “luxury” playhouse—a beautiful, tiny house, with everything?

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El Niño quiets monster storms in 2009 12.18.09
El Niño quiets monster storms in 2009 This past hurricane season, June 1 through November 30, 2009, was quieter than normal. Scientists think El Niño is responsible.

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What does "global climate change" mean? 12.16.09
What does We bet you thought NASA was all about astronauts, Space Shuttles, or missions to Mars. But, for all us Earthlings, the most important planet to explore is the one we are standing on.

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Satellites show India's groundwater is drying up 11.21.09
Satellites show India's groundwater is drying up Over the past ten years, northern India has lost as much as one foot of ground water a year. This is enough water to fill Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the United States, three times over!

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