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Save the Bees (Ms. Weber's Sample Topic)
Please don't pick this topic! It's just for an example.
Honeybees finding it harder to eat at America's bee hot spot
Finnish Scientists Develop Edible Insect Vaccine To Save Bees
Researchers working to solve mystery of honeybee deaths
Dutch Cities Attempt To Restore Bee Population With "Insect Hotels" And "Bee Stops"
Ban Plastic Straws
Should Plastic Straws be Banned? Time for Kids
The Last Straw? Scholastic News Kids
The Problem with Plastics
The Last Straw? Plastic Is Under Pressure...
Protect the Amazon Rainforest
Fire Alarm
The Amazon Rainforest Fires
Saving the Amazon
Battle Over the Amazon
* Join an International Climate Agreement
President Trump Withdraws The US From The Paris Climate Agreement
U.S. to Withdraw From Paris Agreement
Countries reach a deal on how to cut greenhouse gases
COP25 may be the most important climate change meeting ever—and the US is barely there
Wear Sustainable Clothing
Stores that offer cheap, fast fashion aren't what teens want anymore
Julia Mooney's "One Outfit, 100 Days" Mission Highlights The Downside of Fast Fashion
Love A Good Bargain? You May Change Your Mind After Reading This
Use Renewable Energy
Apple suppliers commit to using "green energy"
Help all communities get clean energy, groups say
Generating energy from the wind
Drilling down into petroleum's impact on life on Earth
Stop Food Waste
Garbage can teach us a lot about food waste
Would you eat food made from trash?
School cafeteria food waste
How Norway is selling out-of-date food to help tackle waste
Elementary's "share tables" keep unwanted lunch food out of trash
Save the Coral Reef
Scientists Studied 2,500 Coral Reefs to Figure out How to Save Them
Key West hopes a ban on certain sunscreens will help coral reefs
Scientists race to prevent wipeout of world's coral reefs
* Limit Carbon Emissions
U.N. Report Sounds Alarm on Climate Change
Italian fashion company Gucci has plans to reduce carbon footprint
Why is Carbon Important?
McDonald's has big plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Clean Up the Ocean
Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup Project Successfully Retrieves Plastic From The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Creatures at the bottom of the ocean are eating our plastics pollution
Cleaning Up the Ocean
Protect Endangered Species
Saving whales would help the planet more than planting trees, new study says
Animal species are disappearing, and we the people are the problem
Do you want to help endangered species? Become a citizen scientist.
* Invest in Technologies that Help the Planet
Giving plastic a second chance, saving the environment
Tech for Trees
US green economy has 10 times more jobs than the fossil fuel industry
