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This Yellow Powder Made at UC Berkeley Can Suck Carbon From the Air
UC Berkeley chemists developed a material that absorbs carbon dioxide — a key part of the battle against climate change — but whether it can do this cheaply and at scale remains to be seen.
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Endangered African Penguin Chick Recovers After Surgery at Cal Academy
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At Least 75 People Are Sickened as the Deadly McDonald's E. Coli Outbreak Expands
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Salinas Produce Company Linked to Deadly E. Coli Outbreak, Says McDonald's
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Forest Service Halts Prescribed Burns in California. Is It Worth the Risk?
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Endangered African Penguin Chick Recovers After Surgery at Cal Academy
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Forest Service Halts Prescribed Burns in California. Is It Worth the Risk?
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Here's How SF Mayoral Candidates Plan to Address Climate Impacts on the City
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5 Creepy Creatures Out to Suck Your Blood
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In this image, Deep Look host Laura Klivans looks nervously at large photos of a tick, a mosquito, a kissing bug, a tsetse fly and a louse. This is an illustration to promote Deep Look's special episode about these five animals that suck humans' blood.
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Why Do Sunflowers Face the Sunrise?
In this image, Deep Look host Laura Klivans looks nervously at large photos of a tick, a mosquito, a kissing bug, a tsetse fly and a louse. This is an illustration to promote Deep Look's special episode about these five animals that suck humans' blood.
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Endangered African Penguin Chick Recovers After Surgery at Cal Academy

A baby African penguin named Iggie — short for Ignatz Steinhart — survived a successful first-of-its-kind tendon surgery at Cal Academy of Sciences.
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Forest Service Halts Prescribed Burns in California. Is It Worth the Risk?

Pausing the beneficial burns to keep crews available for wildfires merely delays and exacerbates fire risk to communities, critics say.
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Two people in rain gear stand on a flooded San Francisco street, using rods to unclog a storm drain.

Here's How SF Mayoral Candidates Plan to Address Climate Impacts on the City

KQED asked the five top mayoral candidates how they plan to address the harmful climate effects — like flooding and extreme heat — already impacting the city.
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This Yellow Powder Made at UC Berkeley Can Suck Carbon From the Air

UC Berkeley chemists developed a material that absorbs carbon dioxide — a key part of the battle against climate change — but whether it can do this cheaply and at scale remains to be seen.
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Climate Change Is Already Impacting SF. So Why Aren't the Mayoral Candidates Talking About It?

While San Francisco's top mayoral candidates have argued over a wide range of pressing societal issues, they have yet to engage in a meaningful conversation about climate change and its alarming impacts on the city.
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A native sunflower bee pollinates a sunflower.

Why Do Sunflowers Face the Sunrise?

To bring all the bees to the yard! These pollinators love warm, bright blooms early in the morning. But how did these plants end up facing east? It turns out they spend their whole life getting in just the right position.
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Butte County Residents Hard Hit by the Park Fire Struggle to Recover Without Insurance

California's twin crises of rampant wildfire and hard-to-get, unaffordable home insurance have collided with Butte County’s Park Fire.
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