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An alfalfa leafcutting bee.
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This Bee Gets Punched by Flowers for Your Ice Cream
 
Next time you eat a cone or sundae, thank an alfalfa leafcutting bee.
 
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Gloved hands hold meat in a petri dish.
How About a Burger With Everything - Except the Animals?
 
Bay Area start-ups hope to replace slaughterhouses with Petri dishes by growing meat in a lab.
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Aluminum cans run through a machine at a recycling center while a worker looks on.
Bay Area Lawmaker Introduces Recycling Bill With Relief For Grocers
 
Along with $5 million to pay for mobile recycling centers, the bill would give grocers a temporary reprieve from fees.
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A pile of plastic containers at a recycling center.
California Bill Puts Recycling Onus on Plastic Manufacturers. They're Not Happy About It
 
California is considering a first-in-the-nation attempt at requiring plastic manufacturers to take responsibility for the fate of their products.
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A hand holds a purple sea urchin.
Saving California's Kelp Forest May Depend On Eating Purple Sea Urchins
 
Purple sea urchins are devouring the kelp forest off California's coast. To help the forest survive, researchers are trying to make these urchins a delicacy on menus at seafood restaurants.
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Chevron Faces New Demands From Regulators as Kern County Oil Releases Continue
 
State oil and gas officials say company has failed to show it has taken action necessary to stem crude petroleum releases near steam-injection wells.
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Jonathan Franzen Says It's Too Late For Us on Climate Change. Scientists Immediately Push Back
 
The celebrated novelist's New Yorker essay argues that people should stop pretending that there's still time to prevent climate catastrophe. Climate researchers said he's misreading the science.
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LISTEN: Astrobiologist Explains How Geographical History 'Shaped Human History'
 
Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell discusses his book "Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History."
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