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Superhero of the sea: “Seaweed Cheetos” could be the next key to fighting global warming

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Nature’s Brita filters: Scientists are using wood, sunlight and even human waste to solve drinking water shortages

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The Prius of shoes is coming: Sneaker makers are finding new ways to reduce their carbon footprints

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Lawn and disorder: America’s obsession with the perfect home lawn is terrible for the environment

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A woman holds a bagel she found in a garbage bag of pastries and bagels outside a shop in New York (Getty/Stan Honda)

Garbage Food: Climate change may be a political hot button, but a big driver of it — food waste — is a bipartisan target

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Baby Doomers: As climate change threatens to strain resources, women are increasingly reevaluating reproductive decisions. Now, these women are angry

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Sea change: As desalination technology advances, oceans may hold the answer to the world’s water crisis

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The great garbage fire debate: Should we be burning our trash into energy?

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Are we ready for this jelly? Fluorescent jellyfish may help solve our energy crisis

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A conceptual photo of what a space solar plant might look like. (SPS-ALPHA concept and visualization provided courtesy John C. Mankins / Mankins Space Technology, Inc.)

Houston, we have power: Space-based solar power could be the final frontier in renewable energy

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Who killed the hydrogen car? Nothing except time, overhyped expectations and the viability of electric vehicles

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Steam rises from the cooling towers of the nuclear power plant in Gundremmingen, southern Germany (Getty/Christof Stache)

You make me want to nuke: The nuclear option may be the best environmental option too

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Potty mouth: Would you drink recycled toilet water to save the world? (Psst, you may already be doing so)

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Fantastic Beasts: Our secret weapon in combating man-made climate change — animals

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Bugs — it’s what’s for dinner: Why edible insects’ time may have finally come

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The oyster is your world: The little aphrodisiac that could save our shores, clean our waters and much more

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Building a better ‘burb: The race to design a sustainable suburbia is also making the suburbs kind of cool

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High times: Vertical farming is on the rise — but can it save the planet?

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Attack of the plastic eaters: Can mushrooms, bacteria and mealworms save the planet from pollution?

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Get the flock out of here: Starlings are the worst. Birds. Ever.

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Filming for "The Crystal Reef" in Monterey, CA. (Cody Karutz)

Playing for green: A new wave of VR eco-games aims to save the planet

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A 30 MegaWatt "wave farm" of Pelamis Wave Energy Converters (Business Wire)

Is blue the new green? Wave power could revolutionize the renewable-energy game

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