1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...

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2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (453+ words) A recently filed lawsuit against the fundraising site takes issue with the automatic tip added at checkout that is allegedly difficult to opt out of GoFundMe has been accused of deceptively adding “tips” to donations that go to the company…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (808+ words) “I’m trying not to get emotional,” Hendricks said, taking a step back. This summer, Hendricks began leading cleanups of the Acushnet River, to clear the way for herring to swim upstream to their spawning grounds at the old New Bedford…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (438+ words) Americans better bundle up this winter as forecasters are predicting a season full of rain, snow and ice. As many are soaking up the last days of summer — with some already looking at fall candles and Halloween decorations — the 200-year-old…...

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2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1098+ words) Kathryn Pilgrim knew the century-old Victorian she bought in Dunkirk, New York, came with old plumbing. She replaced pipes she suspected of containing lead and later installed a kitchen filter designed to remove heavy metals. But six years after buying…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (218+ words) Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky has received a $100,000 lifetime achievement award and poet-children's author Nikki Grimes has been named the next Young People's Poet Laureate, the Poetry Foundation announced Wednesday. Pinsky, an acclaimed poet and translator who served as U.S. laureate…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (469+ words) Investors and scientists are restoring a 23-square-mile (60-square-kilometer) tract of peatland in North Carolina's Inner Banks to curb emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide and regenerate native habitat. Fifty miles (80 kilometers) of ditches dug decades ago for an abandoned farming venture…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1244+ words) The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles. It's an idyllic setting in North…...