Environment
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bjarki friis
Long-Dormant Volcano in Iceland Awakens in Fiery Eruption
A volcano erupted near Iceland’s capital ReykjavÃk on Friday, shooting up a fountain of lava that lit the night sky…
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5g
No Good Evidence That 5G Harms Humans, New Studies Find
Public service announcement posters deployed last year in Melborne, Australia.Photo: William West/AFP (Getty Images) Concerns over the potential harms of…
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The US Leads The Way in Citywide Fossil Fuel Bans
A blanket of fog covers the San Francisco skyline in a view from the Berkeley Hills.Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP)…
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branches of biology
Scientists Don’t Know Why All These Sea Creatures Are Swimming in Circles
A green sea turtle hatchling swimming in a tank at the turtle conservancy section of Aquaria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur,…
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EPA Relaunches Climate Change Sub-Site That Trump Axed
The Environmental Protection Agency relaunched its website’s climate change section on Thursday, nearly four years after the Trump administration took it…
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astronomical objects
Mars Is Hiding Its ‘Lost’ Water Beneath the Surface, New Research Suggests
A view of Mars made up of around one hundred Viking Orbiter images.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS Water that used to exist on…
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Racism and Redlining Can Be Seen ‘in the Flood Data’
Houses are surrounded by flood waters after Hurricane Delta passed through the area on Oct. 10, 2020 near Lake Charles,…
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Why Rainbows Look Different in Hawaii
Rainbow over Honolulu Harbor.Image: Minghue Chen Rain and sunlight are the key ingredients of rainbows, but many other environmental factors…
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Virtual Phone Virus ‘Mimics’ the Spread of Covid-19
Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) In an effort to assist the evolving science of contact tracing, researchers have created a…
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alexey ovchinin
ISS Ditches 2.9-Ton Pallet of Batteries, Creating Its Most Massive Piece of Space Trash
The external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries, photographed shortly after being released by the Canadarm2 robotic arm. The object…
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