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Tomato and apple peels can help purify water
They're adsorbent, which means they attract and capture ions and other pollutants on their surface.
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Another drilling blowout in the Gulf, another explosion
A well off the Louisiana coast blew out on Tuesday, sending out a cloud of natural gas that exploded into a fire, engulfing the drilling platform.
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Genetic engineering: Do the differences make a difference?
Where you come down on nature -- cradle or battlefield? -- shapes how you think about the risks of genetically modified food.
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As citrus disease spreads, government cryopreserves tree roots
With a bacterial disease threatening the country's citrus industry, USDA scientists are flash-freezing tree roots in case they need to be regrown in the future.
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Historic lawsuit alleges ag-gag is unconstitutional
Ag-gag laws bar people from recording what happens at factory farms. Utah's ag-gag law is being challenged in the first lawsuit of its kind.
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Scientists are building electronics that dissolve when you’re done with them
The problem with building dissolving technology, of course, is making sure it doesn't dissolve while you're still using it.
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ExxonMobil subsidiary, with arm twisted behind back, agrees to treat fracking wastewater
XTO Energy will spend $20 million to treat wastewater from its fracking operations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia after it was prosecuted for Clean Water Act violations.
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Solar and wind surge, but dirty energy still dominates, as this nifty chart shows
Solar energy production in the U.S. jumped by 49 percent last year, and wind energy by 16 percent, but we still have a long way to go.
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Safety last: Why a nerve-eating, cancer-causing chemical is still on the market
Thanks to a woefully outdated system for regulating chemicals, a substance called n-propyl bromide remains in widespread use, despite its known harm to humans.
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Think you can’t afford an EV? Think again
Automakers now offer an array of discount leases and perks that make electric cars accessible for a much broader segment of the population.