Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Year Mortgage
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Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Year Mortgage
Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations.
A Spectacular Fireball Was Just Caught in Australia. Experts Don't Know What It Was
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A Spectacular Fireball Was Just Caught in Australia. Experts Don't Know What It Was
It was in the early hours of Monday morning when Denby Turton, a mechanical fitter at the Yandi mine in Western Australia, saw a curious light streaking through the sky.
Opinion | Climate Change Is too Expensive to Resist. Our Cities Have to Adapt.
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Opinion | This Luxury Tower Has Everything: Pools. A Juice Bar. And Flood Resilience. (Published 2020)
Unless we learn to adapt, only the rich will be able to avoid the ravages of climate change.
How forest loss has changed biodiversity across the globe over the last 150 years
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How forest loss has changed biodiversity across the globe over the last 150 years
New findings show how changes in land use have complex effects on animal and plant species.
“The Ocean Galaxy” –Many of Milky Way’s 4,000 Known Exoplanets May Be Water Worlds
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“Plumes of water erupt from Europa and Enceladus, so we can tell that these bodies have subsurface oceans beneath their ice shells, and they have energy that drives the plumes, which are two requirements for life as we know it,” says Lynnae Quick, a NASA…
US coronavirus: More young people across the South are testing positive for coronavirus, officials warn -
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6 Phrases You Won’t Hear Successful People Say
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6 Phrases You Won’t Hear Successful People Say
Here are six phrases that will undermine your success, that you won’t catch successful people using.
Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good'
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Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good'
Large-scale tree planting to fight climate change may backfire, two new studies have found.
China's annual dog-meat fair opens; activists hope for last time
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China's annual dog-meat fair opens; activists hope for last time
China's notorious dog-meat festival has opened in defiance of a government campaign to improve animal welfare and reduce risks to health highlighted by the novel coronavirus outbreak, but activists are hopeful its days are numbered. The annual 10-day festival…
Special Report: Inside Iran’s secret project to produce aluminium powder for missiles
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Special Report: Inside Iran’s secret project to produce aluminium powder for missiles
LONDON (Reuters) - At the edge of the desert in North Khorasan province in northeast Iran, near the country’s largest deposit of bauxite, sits an aluminium production complex that the government has publicly hailed as a key part of its efforts to boost output…
Air pollutants and population density increase childhood obesity risk – study
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Air pollutants and population density increase childhood obesity risk – study
Researchers found that air pollution, smoking and a person’s built environment may play role in obesity in children
Days with both extreme heat and extreme air pollution are becoming more common – which can't be a good thing for global health
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Days with both extreme heat and extreme air pollution are becoming more common – which can’t be a good thing for global health
In South Asia, days with both extreme heat and extreme pollution are expected to increase 175% by 2050. Separately, the health effects are bad; together they will likely be worse.
Scientists Taught Mice to Smell an Odor That Doesn’t Exist
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Scientists Taught Mice to Smell an Odor That Doesn’t Exist
With direct brain stimulation, mice learned to recognize an imaginary scent—and helped researchers understand a key piece of the olfactory puzzle.
A Disastrous Summer in the Arctic
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A Disastrous Summer in the Arctic
Record heat is hastening the dissolution of Siberian permafrost, perennially frozen ground that, when thawed, unleashes greenhouse gases and dramatically destabilizes the land.
Mystery of how flying snakes move is solved by scientists
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Mystery of how flying snakes move is solved by scientists
Flying snakes are able to undulate their bodies as they glide through the air, and those unique movements allow them to make such flights, scientists have found.
Scientists Say New Strain of Swine Flu Virus Is Spreading to Humans in China
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Scientists Say New Strain of Swine Flu Virus Is Spreading to Humans in China
A new study warns that the strain of H1N1, common on China’s pig farms since 2016, should be “urgently” controlled to avoid another pandemic.
Gold mining leaves deforested Amazon land barren for years, find scientists
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Gold mining leaves deforested Amazon land barren for years, find scientists
Mining strips nitrogen from the soil and means the forest struggles to grow back even after mines are abandoned.
Hong Kong: China threatens retaliation against UK for offer to Hongkongers
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Hong Kong: China threatens retaliation against UK for offer to Hongkongers
Beijing says Britain will ‘bear all consequences’ of helping fleeing Hongkongers
Ancient Australian Aboriginal sites discovered underwater
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This handout aerial picture released by the DHSC Project and Flinders University shows a research area in the Dampier archipelago…
Archaeologists have for the first time found Aboriginal artefacts on the seabed off Australia, opening a door to the discovery of ancient settlements flooded since the last ice age, they reported Thursday. Hundreds of ancient stone tools made by Australia's…