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The problem with wine bottles
They may be a perfect container for aging wine, but glass bottles contribute enormously to climate change.
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Here are the people who break solar panels to learn how to make them stronger
This national lab program aims to understand why solar equipment sometimes fails and how to make it last longer.
How does Germany′s bottle deposit scheme work?
German consumers religiously return their bottles under the bottle deposit scheme. But how exactly does it work? And is it a model other countries could follow?
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The message in a reusable wine bottle: Combat climate change
Glass bottles are the largest source of the wine industry’s carbon footprint. Several companies are experimenting with new shipping methods.
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Uncontrolled Glass Fire still raging in Napa Valley, Calistoga and Santa Rosa: ‘Like a bomb went off’
The wind-whipped Glass and Zogg fires grew overnight with no containment. Flare-ups also forced evacuations in Paradise and Magalia.
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New blazes in California's Wine Country force hospital, resort evacuations, consume winery
The North Bay's Wine Country once again became a scene of chaos on Sunday and early Monday as wildfires burned on the east and west side of the Napa Valley and blazed toward Santa Rosa, where residential neighborhoods were being engulfed in flames.
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What glass figurines are teaching us about the ocean
This conservationist is using art to track change in the ocean.
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