Agriculture accounts for more than a third of water use in the United States. In drier parts of the country, like the southwestern U.S., that fraction can be much higher. For example, more than 75% of New Mexico's water use ...
Ecology
Dec 16, 2020
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Yelp launched Wednesday in Taiwan, in an expansion of the Asian presence of the popular consumer business review service.
Business
Mar 25, 2015
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The federal suspension of prescribed burns pending a review of how recent fires lit during extreme drought escaped boundaries is reverberating in the West—and complicating Colorado efforts to revive ailing forests and reduce ...
Environment
May 26, 2022
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Less-lethal weapons are drawing new interest as a series of fatal police shootings have sparked outrage and protests around the country.
Other
Aug 25, 2015
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There's a chance water levels in the two largest man-made reservoirs in the United States could dip to critically low levels by 2025, jeopardizing the steady flow of Colorado River water that more than 40 million people rely ...
Environment
Sep 16, 2020
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Experts are painting a dire picture about the impending collapse of a giant cavern under a highway interchange that serves as a gateway to two national parks and the heart of New Mexico's oil and gas country.
Environment
Jan 31, 2018
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Even the most complex of systems comes down to properly configured wires and cables, such as those pictured here on the Propulsion Qualification Model of the Orion service module.
Space Exploration
Feb 22, 2017
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Greenhouse gas emissions caused by urban households' purchases of goods and services from beyond city limits are much bigger than previously thought. These upstream emissions may occur anywhere in the world and are roughly ...
Environment
Nov 7, 2017
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The climate 150 million years ago of a large swath of the western United States was more complex than previously known, according to new research from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2014
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At least one more endangered Mexican gray wolf is roaming the American Southwest compared with a year earlier, and U.S. wildlife officials said Wednesday that lower survival rates among pups are primarily to blame for the ...
Ecology
Feb 22, 2018
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