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A male variable field cricket.
 
Crickets Chirp to Flirt
Male crickets have a different song for every occasion: to advertise their fitness, woo a mate or keep their rivals away. So how do they make all those different chirps?
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A dirt field with a city in the background.
2019 Was the 2nd-Hottest Year on Record
Last year's data collected is the latest confirmation from NASA and NOAA that Earth is becoming steadily hotter. The planet is now almost 1 degree Celsius warmer than it was in the mid-20th century.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders shake hands at the Democratic candidates' debate on Jan. 14.
Democratic Candidates Go All In on Climate Crisis at Debate
With the Iowa Caucuses days away and the Sunrise Movement endorsing Sanders, candidates scrambled to talk climate. It's raising some questions.
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An air quality sensor in the back of a car.
Fleet Of Cars to Collect Block-by-Block Air Quality Data in Bay Area
The Bay Area air district is measuring pollutants such as carbon monoxide and particulates that are harmful to human health.
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Artist conception of an exoplanet with possible surface water in the TRAPPIST-1 system, 40 light years from our solar system.
NASA's New Space Observatory Discovers Its First Earth-like Exoplanet
NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, or TESS, made its first-ever discovery of an extrasolar planet of Earth's size that is also located within its star's habitable zone.
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Newsom Moves Ahead With Plan for Single Delta Water Tunnel
 
California's governor has restarted a project to build a giant, underground tunnel that would pump billions of gallons of water from the San Joaquin Delta to the southern part of the state.
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Proponents See Hope For California's 'Hydrogen Highway' in 2020
 
Supporters of hydrogen-fueled cars and an infrastructure to support them say this could be the year when the concept finally makes some headway.
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Here's How Much Better Last Fire Season Was Than the Previous Two
 
After two years of catastrophic wildfires in California, the fire season in 2019 claimed fewer lives and less land. What went right?
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