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Daily Video July 19 2017

America's National Parks: Mammoth archaeological discovery made in Channel Islands National Park

Watch this video about America's National Parks by Student Reporting Labs
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Daily Video July 19 2017

A trillion-ton iceberg the size of Delaware broke off the Antarctic Peninsula
An enormous iceberg more than 2000 sq. miles in diameter recently detached from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica and floated into the Weddell Sea, located south of the tip of South America.
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Daily Video June 22 2017

Grounded airplanes and the unexpected consequences of climate change
An extreme heat wave is currently affecting the western and southwestern United States.
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Daily Video June 15 2017

New carbon capture technology may change the future of energy
About 30 percent of our electricity in the United States is produced through coal, but coal-fired power plants produce a large proportion of the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. As a result, the W.A. Parish power plant in Texas is developing technology called “carbon capture.”
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Daily Video June 15 2017

Do you control your phone or does your phone control you?
As we turn to our screens more and more, it is important to understand why modern society finds smartphones so addicting and the implications of this worldwide epidemic on our brains. Download a tracking app such as Moment to monitor how many times you engage with your phone daily and how much time is spent on various apps.
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Post June 13 2017

Game on: Key facts about the Republican health care bill
  This week might determine the fate of a Republican-backed bill to repeal and replace…
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Post June 07 2017

10 facts about the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement
  President Trump announced at a speech in the Rose Garden on Jun…
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Daily Video June 06 2017

White House withdraws from Paris climate agreement amid controversy
President Trump announced on June 1 that the United States will begin the four-year process of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, a greenhouse gas mitigation agreement among 196 countries.
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Lesson Plan May 30 2017

Lesson plan: Invent an app that helps your community

Design an app that helps your community, modeled after young entrepreneurs in California's rural Salinas Valley
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Daily Video May 18 2017

Young conservatives: Climate change is an issue for all of us
There is a growing movement among young conservatives, including evangelical Christians, who support environmental regulations. They say it's important to act as faithful stewards of the earth. One group, the Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, has grown to 10,000 members in the past five years.
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