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App aims to help curb food waste

by Andy Uhler
Dec 26, 2016
We waste billions of dollars worth of food.
A take out container in a trash bin in New York City. 
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Oyster farms grow in Rhode Island. Are they a problem?

by Andy Uhler
Dec 15, 2016
The oyster farms compete with boaters and other users of the coast's shallow salt ponds.
American oysters farmed in salt ponds.
Kristin Gourlay for Marketplace
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Pipeline denial is a victory for opponents of fossil fuels

by Annie Baxter
Dec 5, 2016
Environmentalists hope to block new gas and oil pipelines while renewables catch up.
Activists celebrate at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The Army Corps of Engineers notified the Standing Rock Sioux on December 4 that the current route for the Dakota Access pipeline will be denied.   
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We're going to be pumping oil for a long time

by Jed Kim
Nov 16, 2016
The question isn't when we will we run out of oil, it’s "when will we stop needing more and more oil?"
Gas containers featuring the Total corporate logo at the Total Refinery in Antwerp, Belgium.  
Mark Renders/Getty Images
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Will a national charging-station network boost electric vehicle sales?

by Scott Tong
Nov 3, 2016
Low EV sales has sparked action from the White House.
Miles Willis / Stringer
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One solution for food security: putting seeds in a vault

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 30, 2016
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault tries to keep a supply of crop seeds safe in case of food shortages.
A man carries one of the newly arrived boxes containing seeds from Japan and USA into the international gene bank Svalbard Global Seed Vault, outside Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen, Norway.
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Secretary of the Future

The bathroom of the future will be smarter

by Lewis Wallace
Aug 31, 2016
Hygiene, inclusivity and water supply are just a few of the future toilet troubles.
Portable toilets in Ueno Park, on April 3, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan.
Chris McGrath/Getty Images
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What if we had a Secretary of the Future?

by David Brancaccio and Katie Long
Mar 1, 2016
Corporations employ people to imagine and prepare for the future. Why shouldn't the federal government?
Corporations employ people to imagine and prepare for the future. Why shouldn't the federal government? 
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Farmers feel thrown under the bus as Big Food changes

by Annie Baxter
Feb 26, 2016
Some farmers feel their concerns are ignored as the food industry changes.
A group of pigs in Spronk's new barn, equipped with new feeders and gates. 
Seth Spronk
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Lead may be the biggest childhood epidemic in the U.S.

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 1, 2016
The lead problem in America doesn't stop at Flint's city limits.
Tears stream down the face of Morgan Walker, age 5 of Flint, as she gets her finger pricked for a lead screening on January 26, 2016 at Eisenhower Elementary School in Flint Michigan.
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