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Video: Cutting Cow Emissions

Cows' emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas, can be reduced with a more natural diet, farmers are learning.

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Guaranteed to be safer than Ben Franklin's kite experiment, learn the shocking details and damaging power of lightning first hand by spinning up your own virtual thunderbolts.

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Earth's surface is made up of thousands of different habitats and ecosystems, all with unique characteristics. Can you tell the difference between a desert and a tundra? Know how much of Earth's surface is all wet?

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Engineer your own turbine to harness the power of the breeze, and find out for yourself whether or not the answer to our clean energy problem is blowin' in the wind.

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