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A lot of used motor oil leaked into the agricultural water supply in...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - As much as 1,500 gallons of used motor oil leaked from an above-ground storage tank in Washington state into a creek that flows into the Yakima River, vital to the apple-growing...
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California oil drilling regulators are worried 12 underground wells could...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California oil drilling regulators on Tuesday ordered operators of 12 underground injection wells in Kern County to halt injections out of fear that they could contaminate...
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Coyotes in suburban New York 'aren't afraid of people anymore'
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. (AP) — This well-heeled hamlet north of New York City is embroiled in an increasingly nasty debate that seems oddly out of place amid the stately homes and tony boutiques: What should...
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Mount Everest is becoming the world's highest garbage dump
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Six decades after the first conquest of the world's highest peak, tons of rubbish and human waste abandoned by hundreds of Mount Everest climbers is starting to raise a...
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Australian authorities are killing hundreds of koalas because of overpopulation
Australian authorities have killed almost 700 koalas in secret culls to prevent overpopulation in a coastal bushland region after members of a starving colony were seen “falling out of trees”.The...
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Etsy has communal meals then delivers the compostable waste by bike to a...
A lot of tech companies are starting emphasize community and the greater good.Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has pledged 1% of his company's equity, profits, and employees' time to non-profits. Apple CEO...
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Idaho: The US wants us to be 'a nuclear waste dump'
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Former Idaho Governors Cecil Andrus and Phil Batt threatened on Thursday to sue the U.S. Energy Department to prevent what they said was its efforts to turn the state into "a...
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7 animals humans are trying to kill off
In a time when the threat of a sixth mass extinction looms ominously over the planet, most scientists are working hard to save as many species as they can. But there are some experts out there who are...
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8 ways you are killing the environment that you probably didn't even realize
You know an invention has its drawbacks when even the guy who invented it says he's sorry he did so.That would be John Sylvan, inventor of the easy-to-use Keurig coffee maker — an invention deemed “the...
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Where on Earth you can't buy a normal light bulb
Remember when the fight against phasing out inefficient incandescent light bulbs was a big deal? Well it seems the sky didn’t fall. Just recently, Canada joined the United States, the European Union,...
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Scientists are finally discovering the secrets hidden in an ocean trench...
After going unexplored for centuries, one of Australia's biggest marine features is finally giving up its secrets. The Perth Canyon, roughly the length of the Grand Canyon, twice as deep and reaching...
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Adrien Grenier are headed on a quest to find the...
The loneliest whale has plenty of friends it's never met.It took a last-minute donation of $50,000 from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, but Adrian Grenier and Josh Zeman's Kickstarter project to find...
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If apes go extinct, entire forests may follow
Bonobo poop matters. Well, maybe not the poop itself, but what's in it.You see, bonobos eat a lot of fruit, and fruit contains seeds. Those seeds travel through a bonobo's digestive system while the...
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Melting sea ice will probably hit the US harder than anywhere else
Hurricane Sandy was not an aberration. It was New York City's first taste of a trend that could continue for centuries — the storm surge that flooded the city's coastal areas could become a much more...
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Google X is putting giant wind turbines in the sky next month
AUSTIN, Texas -- For its next trick, Google will begin flying 84 foot-long airborne wind turbines, said Astro Teller, the head of Google X, the company's lab of moonshot projects.The enormous kite-like...
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Volcanic lightning creates tiny glass balls inside ash clouds that reach...
Inside towering clouds of volcanic ash, stunning lightning storms can create tiny crystal balls, a new study reports.Researchers recently discovered smooth glass spheres in ash from explosive volcanic...
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is about to get pummeled by a cyclone
Coastal residents in northeast Australia were urged on Thursday to prepare for dangerous tidal surges along the Great Barrier Reef and stay indoors when a powerful tropical cyclone hits.Cyclone Nathan...
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NOAA: Here's what Spring has in store for the US
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Climate Prediction Center just released its 2015 Spring Outlook.The lower Missouri and Ohio River basins, as well as the New England...
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The new Republican majority in Congress can't stand that the Pentagon and CIA...
The new Republican majority in Congress really, really doesn't like climate science.GOP budgeters in the House of Representatives have singled out the study of climate change by the Pentagon and the...
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Researchers just recently photographed this extremely cute, endangered mammal...
Say hello to the Ili pika:This furry ball of cuteness is an endangered mammal closely related to rabbits and hares. The species was first discovered in 1983 and individuals have rarely been seen...
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