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Check out this shocking map of California’s drought
In the midst of cold weather extremes across most of the U.S., spare a thought for bone-dry California.
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One benefit to this horrible cold snap: It could be killing invasive insects
Trees all over America have been granted a reprieve.
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Climate change has an unlikely foe: The humble mushroom
EEM fungi team up with plants to capture carbon in the soil.
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Pesticide in frozen food sickens hundreds in Japan
Perhaps 1,000 people in Japan have been sickened by insecticide-laced foods, and more than 6 million packages of frozen food have been recalled.
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Wind power kept the heaters working in Texas
Foul weather knocked some fossil-fuel power plants offline in Texas, leaving wind energy to save the day.
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White House smacks down climate deniers in new video
Presidential science advisor John Holdren explains that cold weather does not in fact disprove global warming.
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Protesters are super-gluing themselves to fracking sites now
One protester, a British 21-year-old, dressed up like Where's Waldo and glued herself to a gate.
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Rush Limbaugh says liberals invented the polar vortex
That Rush. Always good for a laugh. A sad, annoyed, eye-rolly laugh.
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What I learned from six months of GMO research: None of it matters
Why does anyone care about GMOs? Whoever wins the debate, they're not that important to our future. But they're central to the stories we tell.
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Ask Umbra: Which milk alternative is the lightest on the land?
A reader is udderly flummoxed by the range of options in the non-dairy aisle. Umbra goes nuts.
