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Bad news: Your turfgrass is a water guzzler.
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The ability to perceive many shades of green is not only delightful, but also an evolutionary benefit. For one, it allowed us to detect ripe, nutritious fruits, flowers and leaves against green foliage.
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For some animals, surviving the cold and lack of food in winter depends on slowing down bodily functions like heartbeat and metabolism.
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To find out, we talked to a researcher who lived for a year on Antarctica.
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There’s a reason humid heat usually feels more intense than dry heat.
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Every other week on NHPR's Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a listener question about the natural world.This week’s question comes from Maureen in Concord. For the past few years, Maureen’s been growing vegetables in a backyard garden. Sometimes, she finds chunks of coal in the soil when she’s digging.“I’m growing [vegetables] in the same soil as all of this coal… am I poisoning myself and my family?”
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The Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world.
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We called up some fire historians and anthropologists to investigate.
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Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world.This week, Mihaela asks: “Every time it rains, there is a white foam forming at the base of the trees on our property… What is that?"