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US Government Is Accelerating Coral Reef Collapse, Scientists Warn

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ritidian Point, at the northern tip of Guam, is home to an ancient limestone forest with panoramic vistas of warm Pacific waters. Stand here in early spring and you might just be lucky enough to witness a breaching humpback whale […]

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Tired of Dystopian Sci-Fi? You Might Like Solarpunk.

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I was doomscrolling again. It was a fall evening in 2023, and I found myself sucked into a stream of posts about our collapsing climate: droughts causing billions in Dust Bowl–style crop damage, Florida’s worst-ever coral bleaching, a record melt in Greenland. To distract myself, I picked up The Lost Cause, the latest sci-fi novel from […]

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Jeffrey Epstein Couldn’t Stop Emailing People About Eugenics

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Why was Jeffrey Epstein obsessed with genes? In the latest tranche of Epstein records and emails made available by the Department of Justice, themes of genes, genetics, and IQ—alongside more explicit threads of white supremacy—keep cropping up, often adjacent to Epstein’s fascination with steering research in the biological sciences. Those newly released emails include a […]

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Japan Embarks on a Deep-Sea Mining Experiment With Unknown Consequences

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan’s economic security.  On September 7, the Chinese fishing trawler Minjinyu 5179 refused an order by Japan’s coast guard to leave disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands, which are known in China as Diaoyu. The […]

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Health Department Will Mine Unverified Vaccine Injury Claims With New AI Tool

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is developing a generative artificial intelligence tool to find patterns across data reported to a national vaccine monitoring database and to generate hypotheses on the negative effects of vaccines, according to an inventory released last week of […]

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Something Unexpected Is Happening With Norway’s Polar Bears

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Polar bears became the poster child for the peril of climate change for obvious reasons: They hunt seals from the ice, and as fossil fuels warm the planet, the ice where these bears live is melting. For more than three decades, scientists have been […]

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The Tricky Science of Forecasting Extreme Winter Weather

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Already, a bitter burst of cold is gripping much of the country, and in the next few days, it will reach at least 45 states and extend across two-thirds of the country. It is one of the most extreme winter storms in years. The National […]

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Scary Findings on Microplastics in Our Bodies May Be Flawed. That’s Good—and Bad.

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say the discoveries are probably the result of contamination and false positives. One chemist called the concerns “a bombshell.” Studies claiming […]

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For Some Veterans, Psychedelics Are a Last Hope—and a Dangerous Gamble

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This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. It first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Marc Dervaes sat straight-backed in a circle of 10 men at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. The glass window behind him looked out on a […]

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This Climate Concern Is Way Out There

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a mid-November evening, at precisely 7:12 p.m., a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Florida coast. It appeared to be a perfect launch. At an altitude of about 40 […]

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This Brutal Mosquito-Borne Disease May Have a Cure—But There’s a Catch

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There’s a reason dengue infections are also called “breakbone fever.” Along with a mild fever, symptoms of the mosquito-borne illness include bone-deep, aching pain in the joints and behind the eyes. In severe cases, blood vessels begin to leak. And […]

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