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A coal barge is positioned as a backdrop behind President Donald Trump as he speaks during a rally at the Rivertowne Marina in Cincinnati in June.

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Coal CEO expected Trump help, but administration said no

by Jeff Horwitz Associated Press, Michael Biesecker Associated Press, and Matthew Daly Associated PressAugust 22, 2017

A maple tree shows its fall colors in Woodstock, Maine in September 2010. New England’s 2017 fall foliage forecast is very favorable for leaf peeping.

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‘Spectacular’ autumn foliage is forecast for New England

by William J. Kole Associated PressAugust 18, 2017

A total solar eclipse in Belitung, Indonesia in March 2016. A solar eclipse on Monday, is set to star in several special broadcasts on TV and online.

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Can’t see the solar eclipse? Tune in online or on TV

by Sandy Cohen Associated PressAugust 18, 2017

In this Monday, Aug. 14, 2017 photo, researcher Leonard Zon, founder and director of the Stem Cell Program at Boston Children's Hospital, stands for a photograph in a lab at the hospital, in Boston. Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick pushed through a 1 billion, 10-year life sciences initiative that helped pay for the stem cell program at the hospital. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Deval Patrick’s 10-year, $1B life sciences plan bears fruit in Mass.

by Steve LeBlanc Associated PressAugust 17, 2017

This year’s Mike’s Maze in Sunderland has a space theme. It’s inspired by the 40th anniversary of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft launched in the late 1970s early ’80s.

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Mike’s Maze looks to the skies for inspiration

by Andy Castillo Recorder StaffAugust 17, 2017

Solar panels are to be installed on the Hawley Highway Department building.

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Solar panels being installed on Hawley town garage

by Diane Broncaccio Recorder StaffAugust 15, 2017

Vegetables from UMass Amherst's South Deerfield student farm Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.

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UMass students run the farm, reap the rewards

by Andy Castillo Recorder StaffAugust 14, 2017

Don Huber, emeritus professor of plant pathology at Purdue University, speaks about glyphosate and its effects on the environment during his keynote address at the NOFA Summer Conference 2017 at Hampshire College.

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Botanist cautions danger with genetically engineered crops

by Staff Report By SARAH GARDNERAugust 14, 2017

In this May 20, 2017 photo provided by Don Walter, Clemson University undergraduates Erin Thompson and Harrison Leiendecker practice using a Citizen CATE telescope during the South Carolina CATE training Workshop in Orangeburg, S.C. For the 2017 eclipse over the United States, the National Science Foundation-funded movie project nicknamed Citizen CATE will have more than 200 volunteers trained and given special small telescopes and tripods to observe the sun at 68 locations in the exact same way. The thousands of images from the citizen-scientists will be combined for a movie of the usually hard-to-see sun’s edge. (Don Walter via AP)

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More than spectacle: Eclipses create science and so can you

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 14, 2017

FILE - In this July 21, 2017 file photo, researchers look out from the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as the sun sets over sea ice floating on the Victoria Strait along the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Studies show the Arctic is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Scientists are concerned because impacts of a warming Arctic may be felt elsewhere. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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Science Says: Fast-melting Arctic sign of bad global warming

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 14, 2017