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Floods and hurricanes predicted with social media
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Diesel trains may expose passengers to exhaust
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Men smuggle $20,000 in empty bottles for California refund, officials say.
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California’s high rate of return on beverage containers landed two men in jail for trying to smuggle in $20,000 worth of empty bottles.
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New technique identifies micropollutants in New York waterways
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Flashy first images arrive from NOAA’s GOES-16 lightning mapper
Detecting and predicting lightning just got a lot easier. The first images from a new instrument onboard NOAA's GOES-16 satellite are giving NOAA National...
Tool for a cleaner Long Island Sound
Ecologists have pinpointed sources of nitrogen pollution along Long Island Sound, and shows municipalities what they might do to alleviate it.
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