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Heat and Fires Scorch South as Drought Toll Rises

By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Raging wildfires and scorching heat across the South over the last week, added to the human, economic and agricultural toll of a historic drought that climatologists said was only growing more dire. [More]

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Simulating Droughts To Find Out How Thirsty Plants React

Plants need water to live, but exactly how much? Scientists have built a simulator to figure out how to far we can push crops before they die of thirst, in preparation for a hotter climate. It's a research project that seems particularly fitting for this year, when Texas has suffered (and continues to suffer) through the worst drought year on record.

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EPA: No Way to Capture Fuel Leaked into Missouri River

By Selam Gebrekidan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fuel leaked from Enterprise Products Partners' natural gas liquids pipeline into the Missouri River in Iowa has dissipated or evaporated with little chance of recovery, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Tuesday . [More]

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Pipeline Leaks Natural Gas Liquids into Missouri River in Iowa

By Selam Gebrekidan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A leak in a natural gas liquids pipeline operated by Enterprise Products Partners spilled fuel into the Missouri River in Iowa, the company said on Monday. [More]

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Roundup herbicide research shows plant, soil problems

By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - The heavy use of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide appears to be causing harmful changes in soil and potentially hindering yields of the genetically modified crops that farmers are cultivating, a government scientist said on Friday. [More]

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Regulator signs off on threatened nuclear plant

By Michael Avok BROWNVILLE, Neb (Reuters) - A top regulator said on Sunday that a nuclear power plant threatened by flooding from the swollen Missouri River was operating safely and according to standards.

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Quantum simulator prototype replicates structure of graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from Columbia Engineering, the Italian National Research Council, Princeton University, University of Missouri, and University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) has developed an artificial semiconductor structure that has superimposed a pattern created by advanced fabrication methods that are precise at the nanometer scale.

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