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| These Mites Rain Down to Save Your Strawberries | | Two tiny mites duke it out on strawberry plants throughout California. One is a spider mite that sucks the juices out of the delicious crop and destroys it. The other, persimilis, is a crafty predator that growers drop by the thousands from high-tech drones to protect their fields. | | |
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| Groundbreaking Bill Would Require Large Companies To Track Carbon Emissions | | “If you want to do business in California, the public has a right to know what your carbon footprint is,” says State Senator Scott Weiner, a San Francisco Democrat. | | |
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| GM Sets Goal of Producing Mostly Electric Cars By 2035 | | GM says the vast majority of the vehicles it produces will be electric by the year 2035. It aims to make the entire company, including its operations, carbon neutral five years after that. | | |
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| | | How California Is Trying to Fix Vaccine Distribution |
| | | The nation's most populous state says it's pivoting fast following a chaotic and inefficient county-based rollout of the vaccine. Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris tells NPR about the do-over. | | |
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| | | Johnson & Johnson's Vaccine Could Set Off a New Phase in the Battle Against COVID-19 |
| | | The company's one-dose COVID vaccine is 66% effective, making it a weapon but not a knockout punch. | | |
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| | | ‘We Can’t Wait Any Longer’: Biden Issues Sweeping Executive Orders on Climate |
| | | President Joe Biden issued executive orders this week to cut oil, gas and coal emissions and double energy production from offshore wind turbines. | | |
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