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Take air. Suck out CO2. Make fuel. A lab advance hints at a future for artificial photosynthesis

Is an artificial tree part of the solution to climate change? These guys think so.

This mutilated toucan now has a new 3-D-printed beak

Mammoth tusks are serving as a cover for illegal traffic in modern day elephant ivory

A decade after Katrina, one researcher looks for global lessons in its aftermath

A Norwegian artist wants to raise a storied ship using some really big balloons

The larger Pacific striped octopus breaks the standard octopus rules

EPA contractors caused gold-mine blowout that turned a river orange

Next: An AirBnB just for bicyces

For first time in a decade, US military deploys active-duty soldiers — to fight wildfires

Alaska's salmon fishers: New mines upstream could hurt the fish

This incredible, cat-sized creature is poached more than elephants, tigers and rhinos combined

Chinese residents hurt by the chemical blasts in Tianjin stand up to the government

The Hillary Clinton campaign goes solar

The rat could become man's newest best friend

Chemical blasts in a Chinese port city raise questions about safety

Ten years later, the lessons of Hurricane Katrina apply to all of us

How a water crisis opened an unlikely connection between the US and Iran

Google's new CEO rose from India's middle class to Silicon Valley's elite

Don't let the name fool you. The 'Snotbot' drone could innovate how we track whales.