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This low-cost greenhouse is designed to help the poorest farmers.
For a small farmer in India, the last year might have gone something like this: She plants tomatoes, and the crop is destroyed by...
‘Traveling’ droughts bring new possibilities for prediction
Droughts can travel hundreds to thousands of kilometers from where they started, like a slow-moving hurricane. A new study sheds light on how these...
Reusable sponge created that soaks up oil
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Light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds
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March was second hottest on record globally.
The exceptional global heat of the past few years continued last month, with March ranking as the second hottest on record for the planet....
New method to remove nickel from contaminated seawater
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Globe-trotting pollutants raise some cancer risks four times higher than predicted
A new way of looking at how pollutants ride through the atmosphere has quadrupled the estimate of global lung cancer risk from a pollutant...
New technique quickly predicts salt marsh vulnerability
Scientists who developed a rapid assessment technique for determining which US coastal salt marshes are most imperiled by erosion were surprised to find that...
US West enters 'new era' of unstoppable wildfires because of climate change, experts warn.
The western United States has entered a “new era of wildfires” with average temperatures now two degrees Celsius higher and the burning season nearly three...
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