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3 days ago
Analysis jcscherThe Daring Plan to save the Arctic Ice with Glass
The fear that action to combat climate change has been too slow has led some scientists to test unconventional methods to stem the loss of Arctic sea ice.
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13 days ago
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Painting the Sky, by Thomas Kast
Kast was searching for clear skies in Finnish Lapland to capture the beauty of a polar night when he encountered these polar stratospheric clouds.
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2 weeks ago
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Hurricanes: A guide to the world's deadliest storms
Guide explaining how hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones form, their effects and how they are measured.
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2 weeks ago
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The Himalayan Invention Powered by Pine Needles
In Uttarakhand, in the western Himalayas, a local inventor discovered an unusual use for pine needles that is reviving the local economy, and the forest floor.
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2 weeks ago
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The Green Lady, by Nicholas Roemmelt
On a journey to Norway, "the lady in green" unexpectedly appeared for Roemmelt, making the whole sky burn with green, blue and pink colours.
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2 weeks ago
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How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.
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2 weeks ago
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Why Did Women Vote for Hitler? Long-Forgotten Essays Hold Some Answers
A trove of essays in the archives of the Hoover Institution provide some insight as to what attracted everyday women to extremist ideology.
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2 weeks ago
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California skies glow orange as wildfires continue – in pictures
Dozens of blazes continue to rage in California with a record 2.2m acres burned. Bay Area residents awoke on Wednesday to orange skies
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1 month ago
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Thousands expected at Historic March on Washington
Families of black Americans who were injured or killed by police will speak at the historic march.
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3 months ago
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How one teaspoon of Amazon soil teems with life
Scientists discover hundreds of different fungi in Amazonian soil, thought to play a vital role in nature.
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3 months ago
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Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest
A story for my granddaughter about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate. By Walter Murch
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3 months ago
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The astonishing Vision and Focus of Namibia’s Nomads
The Himba people of Namibia can see fine details and ignore distraction much better than most other human beings – a finding that may reflect the ways that modern life is changing us.
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3 months ago
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Satellites reveal major new gas industry methane leaks
Last fall, European Space Agency satellites detected huge plumes of the invisible planet-warming gas methane leaking from the Yamal pipeline that carries natural gas from Siberia to Europe.
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3 months ago
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In this Together
Nakia Almond holds the hand of Erin Corner, after they prayed while meeting for the first time just after viewing the body of George Floyd during a memorial in the town where he was born, in Raeford, North Carolina. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
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3 months ago
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Oldest and largest ancient Maya structure found in Mexico
Scientists using an aerial remote-sensing method have discovered the largest and oldest-known structure built by the ancient Maya civilization - a colossal rectangular elevated platform built between 1,000 and 800 BC in Mexico's Tabasco state.
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4 months ago
Thanks ! How are you btw?
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4 months ago
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Berlin Monument to 1989 Heroes - in pictures
Little remains of the Berlin Wall, but a new monument in the German capital will honour the protesters who defied the communist state in 1989 and led the divided nation to reunification.
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4 months ago
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This is interesting. I wonder what they will find.
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4 months ago
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Deer are seen around the grounds of Raby Castle, Britain.
Photo/Reuters/Lee Smith
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4 months ago
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Amazon under threat: Fires, Loggers and now Virus
How the loss of the Amazon goes beyond deforestation - and what the nine countries that share this natural resource are doing to protect it.
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4 months ago
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Fears of coronavirus second wave prompt flu push at U.S. pharmacies, drugmakers
U.S. pharmacy chains are preparing a big push for flu vaccinations when the season kicks off in October, hoping to curb tens of thousands of serious cases that could coincide with a second wave of coronavirus infections.
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4 months ago
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The Remarkable Power of the Prickly Pear
A stalwart of the Mexican landscape is finding a second life powering up buildings in the desert, and it is proving to be an unusually sustainable biofuel.
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4 months ago
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Antarctica's weird green snow set to spread due to climate change, scientists predict
It's not grass growing along the Antarctic Peninsula. The culprits are a lot smaller.
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4 months ago
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Hertz preparing to file for bankruptcy as soon as Friday night
Car rental firm Hertz Global Holdings Inc is preparing to file for bankruptcy as soon as Friday night after failing to reach a standstill agreement with its top lenders, the Wall Street Journal reportrd citing people familiar with the matter.