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1 year ago+4 4 0Monarch Butterfly Count Up 35% in WWF-Mexico Survey
After many years of plummeting populations of migrating monarch butterflies, a WWF-Mexico survey brings good news: during the 2021-2022 overwintering period, the monarch butterfly presence observed in the forests of Mexico was 35% higher than the pre ...
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2 years ago+7 7 0Eating one-fifth less beef could halve deforestation
Model suggests that switching to microbial ‘meat’ can cut carbon emissions.
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2 years ago+8 8 0Tesla cancels employee bonuses tied to delivery quotas, raises salaries to compensate
Tesla has decided to cancel any employee bonuses tied to its quarterly delivery quotas. The automaker is also raising base salaries for sales and delivery employees to compensate for the bonuses going away. However, it looks like it will result in an ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0Pastor said “God wanted” underage girl to be his spouse. So the church approved.
The victims' family pressured church leaders to approve of the sexual abuse, saying that it was like Joseph and Mary, because Mary was also a child bride...
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2 years ago+3 3 0More than one million African children protected by first malaria vaccine
More than a million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have now received at least one dose of the first anti-malaria vaccine, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
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2 years ago+3 3 0Beyond Meat Expands Its Chicken Tenders Footprint to Get a Leg Up
California-based Beyond Meat continues its drive to satisfy plant-based consumers by expanding the presence of its chicken tenders in high-profile retailers. Beginning April 12, Beyond will add Albertsons, CVS, Sprouts, and Whole Foods Market stores ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0Aging clocks aim to predict how long you’ll live
These clocks promise to measure biological age and help identify anti-aging drugs, but there are lingering questions over their accuracy.
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2 years ago+18 18 0Giant space telescopes could be made out of liquid
The Hubble space telescope has a primary mirror of 2.4 meters. The Nancy Grace Roman telescope also has a mirror measuring 2.4 meters, and the James Webb Space Telescope has a whopping 6.5 meter primary mirror. They get the job done that they were de ...
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2 years ago+2 2 0The creator of the CRISPR babies has been released from a Chinese prison
He Jiankui created the first gene-edited children. The price was his career. And his freedom.
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2 years ago+13 13 0Apple Silicon Mac Pro could combine two M1 Ultra chips for speed
The Apple Silicon Mac Pro may follow the lead of the Mac Studio's M1 Ultra, a rumor claims, by effectively combining two M1 Ultra chips into a single 40-core SoC. Apple's "Peek Performance" event included a brief tease for a Mac P ...
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2 years ago+2 2 0‘No planet B’: Groups call for $60bn increase in annual biodiversity funding
International conservation groups are calling on countries in the Global North to provide billions more dollars every year to protect the world’s biodiversity. “The future of humanity is literally at stake. People are destroying and consuming nature ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0A top Wikipedia editor has been arrested in Belarus
The editor had been doxxed prior to the arrest
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2 years ago+14 14 0Inside Project Texas, TikTok’s Big Answer To US Lawmakers’ China Fears
TikTok is rebuilding its systems to keep US user data in the US and putting a new US-based team in control. But for now, that team reports to executives in China.
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2 years ago+1 1 0Russians are trying to flee Putin’s chaos
Using data from Google Trends, The Economist has tracked the discontent
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2 years ago+1 1 0Volkswagen plans 2 bn euro electric car plant in Germany
German auto giant Volkswagen said on Friday it had approved a 2 billion euro investment in a new electric car plant, as it seeks to overhaul its business in the face of stiff competition from US rival Tesla. Construction on the new German factory nex ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0Visa, Mastercard block Russian financial institutions after sanctions
U.S. payment card firms Visa Inc and Mastercard Inc have blocked multiple Russian financial institutions from their network, complying with government sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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2 years ago+1 1 0U.S. and EU plan to boot select Russian banks from the SWIFT bank messaging system
The U.S. and European countries are ramping up sanctions against Russia by moving to cut off certain Russian banks from the key bank messaging system.
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2 years ago+16 16 0How climate change threatens the Winter Olympics' future
The Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the ice at breakneck speeds and with grace. When the first Olympic Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, all 16 events took pl ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Yale, Stanford and MIT’s fossil fuel investments are illegal, students say
Novel legal strategy argues that Yale, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Vanderbilt are legally obliged to put the public interest first
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2 years ago+17 17 0Biden administration to reverse Medicaid changes that Trump had OK'd in some states
When Republican-led states balked at expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's administration tossed them a carrot — allowing several to charge monthly premiums to newly eligible enrollees.