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Roy High greenhouse teaches life cycle, life lessons

Last updated Friday, March 16, 2012 - 9:09pm

ROY — Roy High School agriculture students are planting seeds to grow their understanding of the botanical world.

The school’s new greenhouse makes its public debut at an open house March 28, but four soil science classes already have gotten their hands dirty and learned a few life lessons.

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Workers lay piping at BrightSource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System on 3,600 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California. (JOSIE LEPE/San Jose Mercury News)

Solar gold rush in Mojave Desert

Dana Hull San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:34pm

MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. — The Mojave Desert, which spans an area larger than West Virginia, is becoming speckled with gigantic solar power plants that are creating hundreds of construction jobs and, when complete, will generate electricity for millions of homes.

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department shows a Texas kangaroo rat. The Obama administration is taking steps to extend federal protections to hundreds of animals and plants across the country, including the Texas kangaroo rat, compelled by a pair of recent legal settlements that targeted species mired in bureaucratic limbo even as they inch toward potential extinction. (AP Photo/Texas Parks And Wildlife Department, File)

Hundreds of plants, animals up for new protections

Matthew Brown The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 1:50pm

BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark -- from the melodic golden-winged warbler and slow-moving gopher tortoise, to the slimy American eel and tiny Texas kangaroo rat.

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