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The Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal and it's potential impact on VW owners

Out of the 250 million cars and trucks on U.S. roads, the impending recall at Volkswagen will involve just a half-million of them. But VW's emissions cheating scandal is receiving outsize attention because many of the company's customers feel duped. Now those customers are weighing what it will take to make them feel whole again.

David Chien of Williston, Vt., was looking for a bigger, fuel-efficient car that could power its way through Northeastern snow. He says the 2013 Jetta SportWagen he bought "seemed to check all the boxes."

New water-tracing technology helps protect groundwater

UNSW Australia researchers have used new water-tracing technology in the Sydney Basin for the first time to determine how groundwater moves in the different layers of rock below the surface.

The study provides a baseline against which any future impacts on groundwater from mining operations, groundwater abstraction or climate change can be assessed.

NASA Confirms Water Flows on Mars

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.

Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet.

Background Ozone is a Major Issue on US West Coast

Levels of "background ozone" -- ozone pollution present in a region but not originating from local, human-produced sources -- are high enough in Northern California and Nevada that they leave little room for local ozone production under proposed stricter U.S. ground-level ozone standards, finds a new NASA-led study.

Â¿CÃ³mo afectarÃ¡n los parques eÃ³licos marinos a las poblaciones de aves?

Los parques eólicos marinos que van a ser construidos en aguas de todo el Reino Unido podrían suponer una amenaza mayor de lo que se pensaba para las poblaciones protegidas de alcatraces, según una investigación dirigido por la Universidad de Leeds.

Antes se pensaba que los alcatraces, que se reproducen en el Reino Unido entre abril y septiembre de cada año, por lo general volaban muy por debajo de la altura mínima de 22 metros sobre el nivel del mar barridas por las aspas de las turbinas eólicas en el mar.