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A court case about a Bronx Zoo elephant could pave the way for animals to gain basic human rights.
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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?"
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Bill from Lyme asks: “Does anyone know if the origin of life was a singular event, or was there a particular period in earth’s development that spawned the creation of life in multiple places? Is there any evidence [that] process may still be going on somewhere on or under the earth at this time?”
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As soon as Jocelyn Smith started her descent from the last mountain summit of the Appalachian Trail, she started to wonder… what now?
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Bahugana was the most well-known leader of an anti-deforestation movement in the Indian Himalayas in the 1970s.
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Once upon a time, potpourri was a popular way to freshen up a space. Now, for some, it feels a bit like the lava lamp of fragrance: an outdated fad from a bygone decade.
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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, Ingrid from Newmarket asks: "We've been driving around in the Seacoast area recently and seen blue boxes through all of the salt marshes. I'm wondering what those blue boxes are?"
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In the coming decades, the scale of migration linked to climate change could be dizzying. In ProPublica’s projection, four million people in the United…
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The United States is poised for the birth of a brand new industry, one that will invest tens of billions of dollars in our economy, reshape our coastal…
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The United States is poised for the birth of a brand new industry, one that will invest tens of billions of dollars in our economy, reshape our coastal…