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Fracking linked to premature births, study finds
Researchers find women who live near fracking sites in Pennsylvania are at higher risk of having complications during pregnancy.
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When I recycle a beer bottle, does it secretly end up in the landfill?
You toss your glass bottles in the recycling without a second thought -- but where do they end up? Umbra digs in to a national dilemma.
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Victory! California guv signs bill to protect clotheslines
The Sunshine State reinforces its citizens' right to hang out their laundry in public with a new law.
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Pour a glass of booze and saddle up for this week’s birth control news
We're talking imprisoned mothers, late-term abortions, Amy Poehler, and apple cake for this week's Shots & Chasers.
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Media disaster reporting can throw a wrench in the way you process disaster risk
A new study in Nature Climate Change suggests that news reports on natural disasters can actually reduce risk perceptions.
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California bans microbeads, fish rejoice
The Golden State is the latest to ban those tiny balls in your face wash.
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This pumpkin shortage will be the scariest thing about Halloween
Thanks, climate change!
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Are vegetarians secretly eating meat when drunk?
A new poll claims the drunken munchies are the Achilles heel of vegetarians.
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California just signed a landmark bill to tackle climate change
SB 350 has some pretty ambitious renewable energy goals, but fails to cut fossil fuels enough.
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Not to be outdone by climate change, God to end world today
You don't have to be religious to see that things are getting pretty dark around here.