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Hot Habits: Phoenix Shifts to a Cooler Night Mode

Oct 31, 2019 09:30AM

In Phoenix, one of the hottest and fastest-warming cities in the U.S. with heat waves and triple-digit days, work and play are shifting into the cooler hours at dawn and dusk.

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Abandoned Crops: Economics Drive Farm Food Losses

Oct 31, 2019 09:30AM

According to a new study, about one-third of edible produce remains unharvested in the fields, where it rots and gets plowed under.

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Panther Power: Texas Pumas Counter Inbreeding

Sep 30, 2019 09:30AM

The endangered Florida panther has been saved from extinction thanks to the introduction of female Texan pumas.

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Other-Worldly Rock: Extraterrestrial Matter Found on Earth

Sep 30, 2019 09:30AM

A 3.3 billion-year-old layer of rock has been found in South Africa that contains two types of insoluble organic matter, suggesting extraterrestrial origins.

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Diplomatic Freeze: Conflicts Heating Up Over Arctic Reserves

Sep 30, 2019 09:30AM

Scientists warn that the Arctic is heating up much faster than the world average because of rising greenhouse gas emissions.

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Humanitarian Plea: Environmental Destruction Tapped as War Crime

Sep 30, 2019 09:30AM

A group of 24 scientists is urging that environmental destruction in conflict zones be treated as war crimes by establishing a new protocol in the Geneva Conventions.

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Tiny Scrubbers: Nanoparticles Purify Water

Sep 30, 2019 09:30AM

A chemical engineer who grew up in Tanzania has designed a water purification system based on nanomaterials that is being put into use throughout the country.

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Runoff Results: Gulf Dead Zone Keeps Growing

Sep 30, 2019 09:30AM

Agricultural fertilizer runoffs from the Midwest are resulting in an algae-choked “dead zone” the size of Massachusetts at the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico.

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