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Whales are majestic and massive, but even bigger than their size is the role they play in maintaining ocean health and keeping our planet cool.

Can Whales Save The Planet?

Can It Save the Planet?

Can It Save the Planet is a new series from NowThis Earth.

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Did you know you can generate hydrogen with a battery and a glass of water?

Can Green Hydrogen Save The Planet?

Mushrooms are capable of many things: They can be an ingredient in delicious meals, prompt feelings of euphoria, and help keep our soil healthy.

Can Mushrooms Save The Planet?

UPSIDE Foods received FDA approval for its chicken, which is made from the cells of an actual chicken and cultivated in a lab.

Can Cultivated Meat Save The Planet?

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While we may not be able to do anything to prevent the existence of hurricanes, we can do something to help mitigate the destruction they leave behind — and the solution might be oysters.

Can Oysters Save the Planet?

Wind is one of the oldest renewable energy sources, but our ability to harness wind has come a long way since the first electricity-generating wind turbine was built in Ohio in 1888.

Can Wind Energy Save The Planet?

Did you know you can make a salad … that was grown indoors … with no soil or pesticides … and barely any water?

Can Vertical Farming Save the Planet?

If two corals look remarkably alike, it might be because they’re clones.

Can Cloning Coral Save the Planet?

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What's the connection between land management and a ratty pair of underwear?

Can Regenerative Agriculture Save the Planet?

Youth Activists Jerome Foster II and Elijah Mckenzie-Jackson sent a letter to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the organizing body of COP27, asking to reconsider hosting the climate conference in Egypt this year due to the country’s hostile laws toward the LGBTQ+ community.

Youth Activists Fear For LGBTQ+ Safety at Egypt's Upcoming UN Climate Conference

The juvenile chinook salmon population in the Sacramento River could die out this season, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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NowThis Earth's journey to Antarctica

A behind-the-scenes look at the reporting trip of a lifetime.

Can Whales Save The Planet?

They’re vital to our ocean ecosystems and we need to do more to protect them.

Can Green Hydrogen Save The Planet?

NowThis traveled to Plug Power’s gigafactory in upstate New York to learn about potential uses for green hydrogen.

Can Mushrooms Save The Planet?

Researchers are looking into plastic-eating fungi to help solve our waste problems.

Can Cultivated Meat Save The Planet?

NowThis went inside the first facility in the U.S. to receive FDA approval of lab-grown chicken for human consumption.

Can Oysters Save the Planet?

Oysters may be able to act as storm safeguards with structures known as oyster reef living shorelines. Presented by Honda.

Can Wind Energy Save The Planet?

By some estimates, a single on-shore wind turbine could supply power to 1,500 households.

Can Vertical Farming Save the Planet?

Proponents of vertical farming say the system has the potential to fight food insecurity around the world.

Can Cloning Coral Save the Planet?

The process could slow down or even reverse the loss of corals around the world. Presented by Honda.

Can Regenerative Agriculture Save the Planet?

The farming practices have been linked to a reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Youth Activists Fear For LGBTQ+ Safety at Egypt's Upcoming UN Climate Conference

COP27 is scheduled to kick off in early November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

These Juvenile Chinook Salmon Could Die Out Due to CA Heatwave

The juvenile chinook salmon population in the Sacramento River could die out this season, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.