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Beautiful OPEN HOUSESATURDAY Feb 171:00 - 3:30pGreat Buying Opportunity RARE Lower Penthouse Corner Condo with wrap arou...
15/02/2024

Beautiful OPEN HOUSE
SATURDAY Feb 17
1:00 - 3:30p
Great Buying Opportunity RARE Lower Penthouse Corner Condo with wrap around terrace, soaring 14' ceilings and 2nd balcony off primary bedroom. Beautiful updates and views. Furnished. Perfect for Snowbirds, Investors or Primary Homeowners!! https://www.flexmls.com/share/9vBoA/616-Clearwater-Park-Road-Lp13-West-Palm-Beach-FL-33401

Ideal FURNISHED condo for snowbirds, investors or primary homeowners. Rarely available and highly desirable Lower Penthouse GEM, this coveted corner unit with soaring 14' ceilings, wrap-around terrace plus bedroom balcony has not come to market in over a decade. A chic and unique open floorplan in t...

Planting trees around the globe, The Canopy Project…
08/12/2022

Planting trees around the globe, The Canopy Project…

Earth Day Network has planted tens of millions of trees with The Canopy Project, working worldwide to strengthen communities.

Battery production and innovation may hold the key to eliminating carbon emissions.
01/12/2022

Battery production and innovation may hold the key to eliminating carbon emissions.

A world with widely deployed residential ESS would be a world of abundance.

City trees are feeling the pain of climate change…
17/11/2022

City trees are feeling the pain of climate change…

SEATTLE (AP) — As the driest summer in Seattle’s record books ended, trees across the city were sounding silent alarms. It was the latest in a string of Seattle summers in the last decade, including a record-breaking heat dome in 2021, to feature drier conditions and hotter temperatures that hav...

Will your state be in the “Extreme Heat Belt” in 2050??
15/08/2022

Will your state be in the “Extreme Heat Belt” in 2050??



Heat index temperatures will hit 125°F (52°C) at least once a year in a band stretching from Texas to Wisconsin, researchers say.

Gulp…EPA finds no safe levels for many toxic chemicals in our drinking water…
15/06/2022

Gulp…EPA finds no safe levels for many toxic chemicals in our drinking water…

EPA released new health advisories for PFAS chemicals Wednesday, which are found in thousands of drinking water systems across the country.

Striking architect’s Hollywood home for sale…
28/04/2022

Striking architect’s Hollywood home for sale…

Designed by Sarah Graham and Marc Angélil of AGPS Architecture, the award-winning residence (now under contract for $2,295,000) utilizes a striking mix of steel, glass, and concrete.

Remember when Earth Day was a big deal?
22/04/2022

Remember when Earth Day was a big deal?

It’s been disgustingly co-opted by the likes of ExxonMobil. But it belongs to an environmental movement that fused both radical and mainstream America.

Sea rise is a big issue for Florida. A mix of seawalls and mangroves may be provide relief... https://www.rawstory.com...
18/04/2022

Sea rise is a big issue for Florida. A mix of seawalls and mangroves may be provide relief...



https://www.rawstory.com/mangroves-vs-seawalls-mix-may-be-best-of-both-worlds-to-take-on-south-florida-sea-rise/

MIAMI — Along most of the historic South Florida coast, mangroves were nature’s way of protecting the coast from waves and hurricanes. As development inched closer to the water, seawalls became the method of choice to separate land and sea. With 2 feet of sea level rise on the horizon by 2060, w...

Judge cancels Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale over climate change concerns…https://apple.news/ACp3MUjP2SPCRrCWMKlN...
28/01/2022

Judge cancels Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale over climate change concerns…
https://apple.news/ACp3MUjP2SPCRrCWMKlNGeA

The sale of offshore oil and gas leases on more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico was canceled by a U.S. judge who ordered regulators to take a harder look at the impact on climate change.

NYC is phasing out gas stoves and the associated pollution…
18/12/2021

NYC is phasing out gas stoves and the associated pollution…

New York City is phasing out gas in new buildings. It’s a milestone in the fight to clean up climate pollution.

Can a giant lithium-ion battery pack prevent blackouts downunder? Http://apple.news/AoHdMLdbiTCmlH9eDfKGoFA
09/12/2021

Can a giant lithium-ion battery pack prevent blackouts downunder?

Http://apple.news/AoHdMLdbiTCmlH9eDfKGoFA

Large energy storage systems based on lithium-ion batteries can prevent blackouts, and help store energy from intermittent resources like solar or wind.

Are monarch butterflies making a comeback?
27/11/2021

Are monarch butterflies making a comeback?

The annual winter monarch butterfly migration, which has seen steep declines in recent years, seems to be making a comeback. Biologists are encouraged and confused by the trend.

Saving some wildlife populations will require "extreme conservation"...
24/11/2021

Saving some wildlife populations will require "extreme conservation"...

60 Minutes cameras visited the gorillas and their babies in the Rwandan mountains for a new Lesley Stahl report airing Sunday.

A rare sight: Six tigers strolling in a park in India…
23/11/2021

A rare sight: Six tigers strolling in a park in India…

Randeep Hooda, an award-winning actor in India, posted video of an “extremely rare” sighting of six tigers strolling behind a safari truck.

Habit destruction threatens Europe’s butterfly population…https://apple.news/A6HMjLWgkSnC88b-drgZCcg
18/11/2021

Habit destruction threatens Europe’s butterfly population…

https://apple.news/A6HMjLWgkSnC88b-drgZCcg

Industrial farms and abandoned ones are both bad for butterflies. Researchers in Spain are trying to combat the trend, one "micro-reserve" at a time.

Clean energy solutions will require a lot of copper and copper mining is a dirty business…https://apple.news/A_elh-te1Qv...
10/11/2021

Clean energy solutions will require a lot of copper and copper mining is a dirty business…

https://apple.news/A_elh-te1QvyvUG462dmX9A

As the world shifts to wind energy and electric cars, demand for the conductive metal has increased. But mining copper brings its own environmental hazards

An innovative backyard (or wall-mounted) wind power concept… https://apple.news/Ac-aCEi_sSAaS1br_RXomyQ
19/10/2021

An innovative backyard (or wall-mounted) wind power concept…

https://apple.news/Ac-aCEi_sSAaS1br_RXomyQ

Harnessing wind power could soon become a breeze. Today, most of our wind power comes from large-scale wind farms set upon rolling hills and windswept coastlines. Floating wind farms are also cropping up in deeper waters, where the winds are stronger. But what if we could build wind turbines in our....

Farming on giant solar panel fields may be a planet-friendly win-win…https://apple.news/AcN7dvpxeSx2PMklTt_v-VA
15/10/2021

Farming on giant solar panel fields may be a planet-friendly win-win…
https://apple.news/AcN7dvpxeSx2PMklTt_v-VA

In the new scientific (and literal) field of agrivoltaics, researchers are showing how panels can increase yields and reduce water use on a warming planet.

The world’s largest trees have survived hundreds of years of wildfires … not anymore….https://apple.news/AWUGadU4ESEeyvZ...
17/09/2021

The world’s largest trees have survived hundreds of years of wildfires … not anymore….

https://apple.news/AWUGadU4ESEeyvZAwiAdzQg

The world's largest trees are adapted to wildfires. But with fires getting more extreme, scientists warn that giant sequoias are running out of time.

A rare megapode of humpback whales.https://apple.news/A-NP9QN_qR8W-_qD9KqMzAw
14/09/2021

A rare megapode of humpback whales.

https://apple.news/A-NP9QN_qR8W-_qD9KqMzAw

A "megapod" of more than 100 humpback whales has been filmed surrounding a boat off the coast of Australia — an incredibly rare event an expert says has only ever been captured once before in the country's waters.

Tiny forests are popping up in big cities…
23/06/2021

Tiny forests are popping up in big cities…

Community forests the size of a basketball court can make an outsized difference, providing shade, attracting plants and animals, and even storing a bit of carbon.

This angler fish is usually found a couple thousand feet deep in the Pacific Ocean ...
11/05/2021

This angler fish is usually found a couple thousand feet deep in the Pacific Ocean ...

"To see an actual angler fish intact is very rare and it is unknown how or why the fish ended up on the shore," Crystal Cove State Park wrote on Instagram

This has always seemed like such a great concept....solar roofs.
27/04/2021

This has always seemed like such a great concept....solar roofs.

Demand is high, he says, but so are costs

A migrating Gulf Stream and a warming Atlantic Ocean...
22/04/2021

A migrating Gulf Stream and a warming Atlantic Ocean...

The Northwest Atlantic Shelf is one of the fastest-changing regions in the global ocean, and is currently experiencing marine heat waves, altered fisheries and a surge in sea level rise along the North American east coast. A new paper, "Changes in the Gulf Stream preceded rapid warming of the Northw...

Even the deepest depths of the Great Lakes are warming. What will the impact be??
06/04/2021

Even the deepest depths of the Great Lakes are warming. What will the impact be??

It is no secret that winter in the Great Lakes region has been significantly impacted by climate change in recent decades. Ice cover across the Great Lakes has declined 22 percent over the past …

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