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Lab-grown seafood is hitting restaurant menus. Would you eat it?
Wildtype’s cell-cultivated salmon is the first seafood to earn FDA approval, marking a significant milestone for the ...
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Peanuts or almonds? Rice or millet? Planet-friendly grocery shopping choices go beyond cutting meat
As for nut butters, almonds might be a great option for limiting carbon emissions, but they require a lot of water. One study out of Tulane University found that a serving of peanuts has an emissions ...
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The World's 'Toughest Boat Race' Has Snakes, Heat, and Sharks—and It Starts in One of Texas's Prettiest Rivers
The annual Texas Water Safari has taken place every year since 1963, and it's since become a cornerstone of Central Texas's outdoor culture. It starts in San Marcos, Texas, and travels 260 miles ...
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Where's Marty McFly's guitar? Search is on for 'Back to the Future' prop 4 decades later
After digging and dancing to “Johnny B. Goode,” the students at the dance fall into an awkward silence as McFly's riffs turn increasingly wild. “I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet,” McFly says ...
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To avoid a water crisis, Texas may bet big on desalination. Here’s how it works in El Paso. - KLTV 7
Back at the Kay Bailey Hutchison plant in El Paso, Sepúlveda, the plant’s superintendent, walks into a lab opened to students and professors from the University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico State ...
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Texas may bet big on desalination. Here’s how it works in El Paso.
When it opened in 2007, El Paso’s desalination plant was the largest inland desalination facility in the world. It was built through a partnership between El Paso Water and Fort Bliss, one of ...
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Can desalination end Texas’ water crisis | The Texas Tribune
When it opened in 2007, El Paso’s desalination plant was the largest inland desalination facility in the world. It was built through a partnership between El Paso Water and Fort Bliss, one of ...
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Texas Wild Rice Is the Coolest Plant You’ve Never Heard Of
If you’ve never heard of Texas wild rice, you’re not alone. The plant’s obscurity is a consequence of its rarity. Endemic to Central Texas and listed as federally endangered, Zizania texana ...
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Wild rice is booming again on the upper Mississippi River
Wild rice is an annual plant, meaning it completes its entire life cycle in one growing season and then dies. The seeds germinate in spring, then sprout to lie flat on the water like ribbons ...
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Decades After It Disappeared, Wild Rice Is Booming Again on the Upper Mississippi River
A wild rice plant is pictured on the upper Mississippi River near Goose Island County Park in the town of Shelby on Sept. 17. Credit: Madeline Heim/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...
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Decades after it disappeared, wild rice is booming again on upper Mississippi River
A wild rice plant grows Sept. 17 on the upper Mississippi ... the plants emerge from the water, ... Juneteenth's roots go back to the document that declared freedom for the enslaved people in Texas.
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CURE wants tighter water permit for Minnesota Power coal plant that spilled next to wild rice - Star Tribune
The Boswell permit is the first time the state is applying the wild rice sulfate standard to the power plant. The rule was created in the 1970s but never enforced until the EPA demanded it in 2022.