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These wild animals can help guard your garden

Growing food isn't about green-thumbing our nose at Mother Nature; it's about knowing her well enough to enlist her assistance.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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Big recycling oops: Products tainted with radioactive materials

Thousands of consumer products made from recycled materials confirmed radioactive.




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Melting ice reveals lost Viking highway's secrets

As Norway's Lendbreen ice patch melts, an ancient highway is revealed.



  • Research & Innovations

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7 superlative flying animals

From the fastest to the heaviest, there are some impressive flying creatures in the animal kingdom, including birds, fish and snakes.




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New bird flu infecting seals

For about four months beginning in September 2011, 162 dead or dying harbor seals washed up along the New England coast. Most were pups, under 6 months old, and




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Flu vaccine may also protect your heart

Getting a flu shot may reduce the risk of major heart problems, such as heart attacks or unexpected chest pain.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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How moonlight affects animals and plants

The light from the moon influences more than you might suspect, including animal behavior and farming.




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Why wild animals need wildlife corridors

Habitat loss is devastating rare species worldwide, but as the success of wildlife corridors suggests, a little connectivity can go a long way.




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Entrepreneur turns sandals into fresh water (and it's not a magic trick)

How one U.S. businessman is using his startup to bring clean water and hope to drought-stricken Kenyan communities.




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The healthiest foods for us are also the healthiest for the planet

A major new study examines the impact of certain foods on both the body and the planet.




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Seals help researchers understand strange holes in Antarctic sea ice

Enormous holes in sea ice called polynyas are explained with help of robot floats, satellites and tech-equipped seals.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Study reveals biochar as a strategy to fight global warming

Using agricultural waste to make biochar has the potential to reduce 12% of global CO2 emissions annually.



  • Research & Innovations

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How biotechnology could revive extinct animals

Researchers are setting their sights to resurrecting passenger pigeons and woolly mammoths, but would it do more harm than good?




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Scientists create 'living materials' using E. coli

The new materials could one day be used for building devices that have the properties of living things, such as the ability to self-heal.



  • Research & Innovations

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As costs fall, corporations reach renewables goals early

Corporate renewable energy goals that once looked ambitious are being met much earlier than expected.




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In Rotterdam, a wind turbine that's also an apartment complex (and an observation wheel)

The conceptual Dutch Windwheel takes the term 'mixed-use development' to dizzying new extremes.




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'Up in Arms': Book reveals more of the story behind the Bundys' takeover of national lands

Author John Temple was granted unprecedented access to the controversial family.




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Darwin was right: Island life makes animals more relaxed

The lack of predators reduces the instinct to flee, according to new research.




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Now you can see through the eyes of animals

Could virtual reality change our relationship with the natural world?




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Drought reveals 'Spanish Stonehenge'

The remains of a megalithic monument, the Dolmen of Guadalperal, have resurfaced in Spain.



  • Arts & Culture

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8 Super Bowl commercials to keep the game interesting

These sweet, inspiring and silly commercials are Super Bowl stars.



  • Arts & Culture

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8 animals that prefer to dine with company

Humans are social eaters, but we're not the only animal in that category. Here are other creatures who would rather eat with a group instead of alone.




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Why we need more 'super corals'

A new study finds Hawaii is home to "super corals" that were nearly destroyed 30 years ago but have rebounded despite warmer, more acidic water.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Hockey fans throw 45,000 stuffed animals on the ice for charity

Fans at a Hershey Bears hockey game threw stuffed animals on the ice so they could be donated to charities.




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Why lightning is so much deadlier for animals than it is for humans

For four-legged creatures, lightning strikes create an especially lethal ground current.



  • Climate & Weather

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Casual Fridays are now every day (and you can thank millennials)

What started with casual Friday has morphed into "casual most of the time" — and much of that change has happened in just the last five years.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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5 chemicals to avoid in cosmetics

What these all-too-common chemicals do to our bodies.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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This creature eats, learns and heals itself — all without a brain

A strange and talented blob will be revealed to the public in Paris for the first time.




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Lab animals can now be adopted, FDA says

A new policy allows research animals at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be adopted into forever homes when their experiments end.




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[Primetals Technologies, Ltd.]<br />Primetals Technologies equips Baosteel CC3 continuous caster with new Integrated Control Center

New Integrated Control Center (ICC) for controlling and monitoring the entire continuous casting plant




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[Primetals Technologies, Ltd.]<br />Primetals Technologies wins order from Shougang Qian’an to supply 6-stand Hyper UC-mill for electrical steel

・ The world’s first 6-stand tandem cold mill with Hyper UC-mills in all stands ・ Equipped with work roll shift function to enable precise edge profile control of electrical steels ・ Enables Shougang Qian’an to meet the growing demand for electrical steels




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Corn-based diet turns hamsters into cannibals

Pellagra, which is caused by a deficiency in vitamin B3 (niacin), showing up in hamsters because of large-scale monoculture.




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In British election, millennials turned the tide

British Prime Minister Theresa May is avocado toast after young people rise up to vote.




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U.K. to ban wild animals in circuses

British government prohibits wild animals in U.K. circuses by 2020, joining similar bans in Scotland and Ireland.




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The way animals are treated in Liberia is changing, and children are leading the way

Through the animal welfare group he founded, Morris Darbo is saving more than the lives of animals.




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Why soccer nets are a deadly issue for animals

Every year, countless birds and deer get fatally entangled in soccer nets.




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They braved a war-torn region to rescue 47 animals from the &#39;Zoo of Sorrow&#39;

47 animals were saved after a daring mission to a zoo in the Gaza Strip.




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This man is a &#39;knight&#39; in latex armor for countless death row animals

Chris Van Dorn dons the cape and mask to rescue animals through his nonprofit, Batman4Paws.




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She got her start saving animals. Now she&#39;s set her sights on saving the ocean

Mimi Ausland began as an advocate for animals with her interactive quiz website that donates food to shelters. Now, she's tackling plastic waste in the ocean.



  • Climate & Weather

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These unusual therapy animals lighten the mood at U.S. airports

Therapy dogs are becoming more common at airports, but some other, more unusual animals are also helping to relieve travelers' stress.




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What kind of animals belong on flights?

The rules for service and support animals are changing rapidly.




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Scientists detect more repeating radio signals from deep space

Many repeating and non-repeating signals have been discovered by the CHIME telescope in Canada.




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10 surprising facts about Neanderthals

Neanderthals were more sophisticated and similar to humans than you might expect.




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With humans in lockdown, animals flourish

Wildlife may be making a comeback while humans stay home during the coronavirus lockdown.




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5 venomous animals that could save your life

Venomous animals like snakes, bees and spiders may hold the secret to curing cancer, pain management and other diseases.




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Time-lapse artist shines macro lens on contracting corals

'Coral Colors' showcases the psychedelic beauty of marine invertebrates.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Summer produce: Can it, freeze it, pickle it or make it boozy before Old Man Winter steals it

Before we get a cold, snowy winter, you better start preserving now.




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5 recipes for easy packet meals

Packet meals using foil or parchment paper are an easy way to create a meal — and cleanup is a snap.




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Boost your meals with compound butters

Whether you call it compound, composite or composed butter, it will elevate any dish.




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How to use succulents as outdoor annuals

Succulents are affordable, low-maintenance and add a nice contrast to your flowers.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening