environment
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Leaked Big Oil Docs Hint at Support for a Carbon Tax
The American Petroleum Institute is planning to endorse a carbon tax but has no plans to stop funding climate-denying candidates—or…
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NOAA Moves Step Closer to Starting Hurricane Season Earlier
This combination of satellite images provided by the National Hurricane Center shows 30 hurricanes that occurred during the 2020 Atlantic…
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Extreme Rainfall Has Been Linked With Low Birth Weight
A Dessana indigenous man plays with a baby by the Negro River at the Tupe Reservation in the outskirts of…
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Kids Are Being Exposed to a Lot of Concerning Chemicals Through Plastic Toys
Photo: Noel Celis/AFP (Getty Images) Children’s toys contain many potentially toxic chemicals, recent research suggests. The study highlights over 120…
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Primates Appeared Almost Immediately After Dinosaurs Went Extinct, New Research Suggests
Artist’s depiction of Purgatorius mckeeveri.Image: Primates Emerged Almost Immediately After the Dinosaurs Went Extinct, New Research Suggests A formation famous…
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Biden Rescinds Trump Decision to Build Copper Mine on Sacred Land
An Apache activist dancer performs in a rally to save the Oak Flat area, in front of the U.S. Capitol.Photo:…
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Satellite Spots NASA’s New Rover—and Its Garbage—From Mars Orbit
ExoMars image showing the Perseverance landing site on Mars. Image: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS; acknowledgement P. Grindrod The Perseverance rover, along with several…
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Iceberg More Than 20 Times the Size of Manhattan Breaks Off Antarctic Ice Shelf
An aerial view of the iceberg that broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf. It measures roughly 490 square miles (1,270…
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World Not on Track to Meet Paris Climate Agreement
The sunset is pictured as steam rises from the chimneys of Niederaussen lignite-fired power plant in Roggendorf, western Germany on…
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Australian Bee Spotted for First Time in Century Faces New Threats
An Australian cloaked beeImage: James Dorey/Flinders University Not since 1923 have scientists gazed upon the Australian cloaked bee. That is,…
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