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How to invite amphibians to your garden

You can help save amphibians in your neighborhood by creating an appealing backyard oasis for them.



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Easy homemade suet cakes for backyard birds

Suet is a high-calorie source of easily digestible food for birds, and making it couldn't be easier.



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How Green Chimneys gives special needs students and their families hope for the future

Newman’s Own gives all of its profits to charity, like a therapeutic residential facility that supports 250 students and 200 animals.



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How to identify poison ivy, oak and sumac

The rhyme "leaves of three, let it be" could describe a lot of plants, so you have to know what to look for to identify poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac.



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10 healing plants you can find in your garden

Before you check the medicine cabinet, you might want to look in your backyard for a healing plant.



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North Dakota woman donates 3,727 pounds of vegetables from community garden

Gardener Donna Stumphf wanted to grow a few vegetables for the needy and ended up with more than 1.5 tons.



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'The Well-Placed Weed' honors the work and legacy of the late gardener Ryan Gainey

A documentary introduces world-renowned garden designer Ryan Gainey, who was a self-taught visionary who had a distinctive style — and complex relationships.



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How gardening can heal the land — and you

Ecological landscape designer Jessi Bloom offers guidance in designing a yard that is healing for spirit and nature and creating sacred, meditative space.



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Will Obama stop the tar sands devastation?

In anticipation of Obama's visit to Canada, environmentalists circulate petition to stop 'dirty oil.'



  • Research & Innovations

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Dead frog found in a Diet Pepsi can

The FDA has now confirmed that the disgusting sludge a man poured from a freshly opened Pepsi can was a dead frog or toad.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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BPA found in wide range of canned goods

Video: A study conducted by Consumer Reports found BPA in almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested -- from juice to chicken soup and tuna fish -- raising co




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Birth defects are on the rise in Fallujah

Doctors are seeing up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants.



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8 clever ways to decorate with tools

Reusing old household items can give your home a fun, rustic dimension.




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Fund Podcycle and your planet will not explode

A new device that takes K-Cups apart has the potential to keep millions of single-use pods out of landfills.




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'Deposit shelf'-equipped trash bins lend helping hand to Copenhagen's bottle collectors

Millions of bottle deposits go unclaimed in the exceptionally tidy Danish capital each year.




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In Seattle, curbside composting takes a turn for the litigious

Hey nosey garbage man, you got a warrant?




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New Orleans' dead Christmas trees given new life deep in the bayou

It's a bird ... it's a plane ... if it's in New Orleans, it's just a Black Hawk helicopter airdropping old Christmas trees.




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This nifty backpack is made from a whole bunch of recycled plastic bags

Onward Bag is landfill-skirting design at its most ingenious.




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Bacteria that devours plastic discovered near Japanese recycling facility

Japanese scientists have found a special bacteria, Ideonella sakainesis, that likes to eat polyethylene terephthalate, better known as PET.




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Sweden runs out of garbage, forced to import from neighbors

Sweden, a recycling-happy land where 810,000 homes are heated by the incineration of waste, is facing a unique dilemma: It needs more fuel.




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This mall in Sweden sells only recycled stuff

The ReTuna mall in Eskilstuna provides a shining example of how the buy-use-dispose model can be turned on its head.




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How 'toilet to tap' water is made

In drought areas, treated wastewater is added back to the potable water stream. It's safe, and one study says it even tastes better.




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5 useful products made from ocean plastic

Innovators like Sea2See and Adidas are taking marine trash and turning it into treasure.




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Floating park built from recycled plastic waste debuts in the Netherlands

A river pollution clean-up project yields spectacular results in Rotterdam.




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10 uses for shredded paper

From packing materia to kitty litter and more. Here's what to do if you can't recycle your shredded paper.




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Researchers develop a new way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere

MIT engineers say this cheap, low-energy process can remove CO2 from the air.



  • Research & Innovations

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This biodegradable, edible wrapper could replace single-use plastics for food

A 'living' wrapper called kombucha slime could ease the world's plastic pain.



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Forget geniuses. Hard workers make the best role models.

Hard-working people like Thomas Edison make better role models, according to research that compared Albert Einstein to Edison.



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Researchers turn to 'sentinel trees' to warn of destructive pests

The global effort aims to help protect native tree species and reduce the billions in potential damages.



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We can't lie to our kids about how stressed we are during this pandemic

New research finds that parents who suppress their anxiety actually transmit it to their kids.



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Amazon deforestation heading to dangerous 'tipping point'

Deforestation is occurring so fast in the Brazilian Amazon that three football fields worth of tree cover are lost every minute.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Meetings. On demand.

Our customers meet without having to travel.




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11 great gifts made from meteorites

How about an out-of-this-world accessory for your Valentine?




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Blondes might actually be smarter than those with other hair colors

A new study turns the tables on the old "dumb blonde" stereotype.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Researchers identify the secret ingredient that makes royal jelly so effective at healing wounds

The ability of royal jelly to help heal wounds is yet another great reason to love (and save) the bees.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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The red-cockaded woodpecker is making a comeback

The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker is showing up in some interesting places in the South as it makes a comeback.




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Do fake owls and other decoys work?

You might be able to fool birds and bunnies with fake owls and scarecrows, but not for long.




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Teaming up to save red-cockaded woodpeckers

At Fort Stewart, the Army and the Fish and Wildlife Service are saving red-cockaded woodpeckers — and military training.




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World's loudest bird is louder than a motorcycle

The male white bellbird attracts a mate by singing louder than a jackhammer.




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Why we can't stop watching the Decorah eagles

The bald eagles of the Decorah and Decorah North nests in Iowa are the stars of two webcams that let us follow along with their daily drama.




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Christmas Bird Count takes off Dec. 14

Grab your binoculars and help scientists study bird populations in the 2019 edition of the world's longest running citizen-science survey.




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Why snowy owls are spending the winter in Detroit

Some snowy owls have left the tundra to winter in Detroit where they have less competition for food.




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Bird flu more common but less deadly than estimated

The H5N1 influenza virus, also known as "bird flu," may well be more prevalent and less deadly than health officials had thought, according to a new study publi



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Bat flu? Human risk for newly detected disease unknown

Scientists have found a new influenza virus that infects bats. But don't pull out the hand sanitizer leftover from the H1N1, or swine flu, pandemic just yet. Wh




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H5N1 debate: How to balance biosafety with research

While research on the lab-altered H5N1 virus that can be transmitted between mammals in laboratories is put on hold, scientists are debating how to balance bios



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Controversial bird flu paper explains potential of pandemic

Bird flu can be transmitted between mammals — and possible humans — needing only four mutations to do so, a new study published this week in the journal Nat



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Earliest start to flu season in nearly a decade

Flu activity around the country is high enough that health officials announced that the season is under way.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Flu epidemic rages: How to shield your business

With cases of the flu reaching epidemic levels, it is critical businesses maintain a healthy work environment.



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Influenza RX Sorbet: Cure your flu with dessert?

Artisanal ice cream maker offers frozen cocktail cure that contains bourbon, cayenne, lemon and honey.



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Current flu vaccine less effective in the elderly

Despite the report, the CDC still advises older people to get a flu shot.



  • Fitness & Well-Being