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boreal forest in Alaska

Connecticut River

logging in San Juan National Forest

Haybro, Colorado: coal-mining pit

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Water Scarcity Facts and Statistics

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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Statue of Liberty in front of the skyline of Manhattan, New York City, New York.

Who Was the Woman Behind the Statue of Liberty?

Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.

7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around

Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium

When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Moonrise over Tucson, Arizona

Why Doesn’t Arizona Observe Daylight Saving Time?

airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)

7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

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boreal forest in Alaska

Connecticut River

logging in San Juan National Forest

Haybro, Colorado: coal-mining pit

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ecosystem services common-pool resource water resource biological resource renewable resource overharvesting peak oil theory tragedy of the commons poaching water supply recycling marine protected area national park ecosystemic approach national forest nature reserve national monument allocation of resources national seashore ecological restoration

Key People

Julia Carabias Lillo

Mexican ecologist and environmentalist