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Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.
It's all in the neighborhood.
Mississippi sued Memphis over its use of a deep aquifer. A possibly paradigm-shifting Supreme Court decision looms.
A group of Black residents from St. James Parish, Louisiana, got the green light to hold an hour-long Juneteenth prayer on a burial plot, owned by plastics company Formosa.
Researchers use models meant for infectious diseases to show how congestion proliferates. That may mean a vaccine for traffic jams is on the horizon.
A new study found that satellite images used to inform fishery closures did not capture the full extent of toxic oil from the 2010 spill.
In British Columbia, Native communities, activists, and local government are split over new pipelines and their environmental risks.
“They’re not hearing people speak to them on the issue in a manner that resonates.”
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