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Good parenting evolved multiple times in moss animals
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When women have land rights, the tide begins to turn.
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Plants really do feed their friends
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Southern Hemisphere subtropical drying as a transient response to warming
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Trump team to promote fossil fuels and nuclear power at Bonn climate talks.
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Speeding up commercialization of electric vehicles
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Fish bones yield new tool for tracking coal ash contamination
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The radical idea behind Trump’s EPA rollbacks.
The Trump administration isn’t just pushing to dramatically shrink the Environmental Protection Agency, chop a third of its budget and hobble its regulatory powers....
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