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Feds will help honeybees find food
The government will spend $3 million to encourage farmers and ranchers to provide nutritious honeybee nectar in the Midwest.
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This new tool lets you watch trees disappear in near real time
New software and satellite images can track tree loss month-to-month -- which is damn near real time in logging terms.
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Fight the funk: This woman’s fight against garbage fumes became a national crusade
Vernice Miller-Travis connected the dots between the nasty haze that hung over West Harlem and the neighborhood's sky-high asthma rates. She is one of the unsung heroes of the environmental justice movement.
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New Jersey wants to dump toxic waste on a site that was just cleaned up
Why? Possibly because it'll be profitable for people with political connections.
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Marcellus energy development could pave over an area bigger than Delaware
A new study predicts 106,004 new gas wells will be drilled in the Marcellus region.
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Recycled plastic doodads make instant divided bike lanes
We were going to like the Armadillo even if it didn't have a very practical purpose.
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EPA’s new pesticide rules: Will they make a difference?
Farmworker training and rules for underage labor are valuable, but it's going to take more to change our chemical-laced system.
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Volcanoes are giving us a breather from climate change
Someone, at some point, must have made the right sacrifice to the right volcano god.
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Subway cake fairy is either the best or worst commuter ever
Would someone giving away free homemade cake on the subway make you grin -- or make you call 911? (ANTHRAX!!!!1)
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L.A. and California lawmakers move to impose fracking moratoriums
Some leaders in Los Angeles and Sacramento are fed up with fracking, which sucks up lots of water even as the state is suffering through a drought.
