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Thanks to drought, panning for gold is gaining popularity in California
There's a new mini Gold Rush as rivers are drying up and prospectors are moving in.
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This woman has spent almost a year underwater. Here’s why she’s your new hero
Star scientist Sylvia Earle dives deep in a splashy new Netflix doc about oceans.
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Your iPhone is about to get (a little) less toxic
The next step in a green direction: Apple will prohibit the use of benzene and n-hexane in final assembly of iPhones and iPads.
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Texas messes with Texas, pits landowners against pipeline-builders
Texas loves Big Oil, and the state has let companies run pipelines pretty much anywhere. But Texas also loves property holders, and some of them are unhappy.
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When it comes to roads and rail, we force government to lie to us
California's high-speed rail is only the latest public megaproject to be stuck in the overpromise-overspend cycle -- because we make it hard for officials to be honest.
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Are women our best hope for fighting climate change?
They're definitely the ones who will be most screwed by it.
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Ask Umbra: Is “canned air” bad for the planet?
A reader threatens to use an air duster to clean her office. "Drop the spray can and step away from the computer," says Umbra. "We don't want anyone to get hurt."
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Foraged fruit leather is like a Fruit Roll-Up, only with fruit in it
We teach you how to make these treats using little more than foraged berries and the dashboard of your car.
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U.S. bikeshares have killed a shocking number of people
Roughly 23 million bikeshare rides have been taken since 2007, but no one has died and accident rates are low, according to experts.
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Fracking operations get even closer to drinking water sources than we thought
A new study reports that oil and gas companies frack at much shallower depths than they want you to know -- and much closer to water you might want to drink some day.
