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  A long-dormant lake has reappeared in California, bringing havoc along with it

  NBC News - Evan Bush

  Months of atmospheric river storms have pummeled the area, which holds crucial farmland. A historic snowpack that looms in the mountains above the basin will make things worse. People have worked for a century to make California’s Tulare Basin into a food grower’s paradise. That pastoral landscape …

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  Department of Justice sues Norfolk Southern over Ohio derailment

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  The Department of Justice's lawsuit against Norfolk Southern seeks to hold the company liable for cleanup costs in East Palestine, Ohio, as well as civil penalties. NBC News' Ken Dilanian reports.

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  At a climate conference for conservatives, urgency for action meets caution on messaging

  NBC News - Nidhi Sharma

  “At the time, it was both safe and popular for Republicans to deny climate change,” one speaker said of previous generations of politicians. “But times are changing.” WASHINGTON — The first slide in Luke Bolar’s presentation at the third annual Conservative Climate Leadership Conference immediately …

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  Human remains found in Lake Mead identified as 39-year-old man who drowned in 1974

  NBC News - Julianne McShane

  The remains found in October were those of Donald P. Smith of North Las Vegas, said the coroner's office. Investigators ruled the death an accident. Human remains found at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada last year are those of a 39-year-old Las Vegas man who drowned nearly 50 years ago, …

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  The elephant in the dining room: A startup creates a mammoth meatball

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  Experts say that if the technology is widely adopted, it could vastly reduce the environmental impact of global meat production in the future. Throw another mammoth on the barbie? An Australian company on Tuesday lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic …

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  Australian start up unveils ‘mammoth meatball’ made from mastodon genetics

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  The Australian company Vow unveiled its “mammoth meatball,” a lab-grown meatball made using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct mastodon. The meatball was created by combining publicly available genetic data from the woolly mammoth and its closest living relative, the African elephant, and …