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Faced With Heavier Rains, Cities Scramble to Control Polluted Runoff

In 2011, Philadelphia’s city-owned water utility drew national attention when it began Green City, Clean Waters, a 25-year program to manage an increasing volume of stormwater by using mostly “green infrastructure,” such as rain gardens and porous pavements, which allows rain to soak into the ground rather than becoming runoff that pollutes rivers and creeks.

Tundra Vegetation to Grow Taller, Greener Through 2100, NASA Study Finds

Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north.

Protecting Surf Breaks Mitigates Climate Change, Helps Coastal Communities, Analysis Finds

Safeguarding places to hang ten and shoot the curl is an opportunity to simultaneously mitigate climate change, fuel tourism and help surrounding ecosystems, new research has shown.

Methane Degradation Without Oxygen in Lakes

Methane-oxidizing bacteria could play a greater role than previously thought in preventing the release of climate-damaging methane from lakes, researchers from Bremen report.

In Montana’s Northern Plains, Swift Foxes Are Back from the Brink

The swift fox — known as Nóouhàh-Toka’na to the Aaniiih and Nakoda tribes — once roamed the Western plains from Texas to Canada, eating small rodents and insects. But their numbers swooned with the arrival of settlers, who plowed their grasslands and set poison baits for canine predators.