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A group of elephants prepare to cross a road as oncoming headlights can be seen in the distance.
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Elephants and humans could be headed for a collision in Southern Africa as climate change and bears down and more land comes under cultivation.

Human expansion will fuel more conflict with elephants without careful planning

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sample tubes containing seawater and sand in a test tube rack

Fantastic Bioplastic
Irrigation pump

Slurping Up Groundwater
From left, Bob Miller, Julie Black, Bradford Jones and Kyle Emery

Serendipity on the Shore
Man with brown hair and skin holds book as woman with black hair and braids looks at him

McNair Scholars Get Big Investment
A mechanical wheel topped with a tarp-like cover tiled in solar panels sits in a green river surrounded by green foliage

Catching Plastic at Its Source
Two silver colored fish swim above a red coral reef in dark blue water

Healing Our Ocean
Power company worker wearing a hardhat is repairing electrical wires from a utility bucket truck.

Denial, Doubt and Delay
woman reading nutrition label on grain package

A Nutrition Label for Earth

A Prehistoric Climate Feedback Loop

How the Earth is Changing
Wind farm in Western Cape, South Africa

Energizing Africa

Tracking Nitrogen Pollution
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