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Climate geeks in Morocco are ‘with her’
Marrakech’s old walled city seems a long way from the battleground states that will determine the next president of the United States. But on Election Day in the US, thousands of people gathered there...
View ArticleWill Trump bring a U-turn on climate policy? Probably, but ...
In the day-after evaluations of the whys and whats of Donald Trump’s stunning presidential election victory in the US, one topic that's barely warranted a mention is climate change.But Trump’s election...
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The US will likely fail to meet its Paris climate pact promises
The United States will likely fail to meet its pledges under the landmark Paris climate pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, analysts said Thursday on the margin of UN climate talks.Even if...
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The battle for Mosul continues. Here's the latest on the fight.
The battle for Iraq's second city Mosul neared the remains of ancient Nimrud on Thursday, as the offensive against the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold Raqqa was hampered by a sandstorm.Backed...
View ArticleThe CDC is stepping up in the global fight against infectious disease
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, is increasingly focused on health concerns outside the United States as the world becomes more interconnected. And its international...
View Article'Controversial' nuclear deal signed by Japan and India
Japan and India signed a controversial civil nuclear deal on Friday that will allow Japanese companies to export atomic technology to the Asian giant as the two countries deepen economic and security...
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Iraqi troops continue to battle ISIS in Mosul amidst reports of civilian...
Elite Iraqi troops battled ISIS in the streets of Mosul on Friday, as the UN reported jihadists had executed dozens of people inside the city for alleged "treason."With ISIS also on the defensive in...
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Charges in Zimbabwe dropped against Cecil the lion hunter
A Zimbabwean high court has dropped charges against the professional hunter, Theo Bronkhorst, who led the expedition that killed prized lion Cecil last year, his lawyer said Friday."The high court has...
View ArticleThis new 3-D printed glove can dupe fingerprint scanners
The latest wearable tech to get people talking isn’t an activity tracker or a watch. It’s a glove that gives the wearer an entirely new set of fingerprints, fooling even the best fingerprint scanners...
View ArticleWhat caused this space object’s weird orbit? 'It was totally Planet Nine,'...
Earlier this year, Konstantin Batygin, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, joined Ira Flatow on Science Fridayto discuss "Niku," the name for the newly discovered Kuiper Belt...
View ArticleScrewworm is back — and it’s bad news for Florida’s endangered deer
There’s a real-life horror story unfolding right now in the Florida Keys.Once a common livestock pest, the flesh-eating New World screwworm was all but eradicated in the US in 1982, after a decadeslong...
View ArticleOctober’s cyberattack used the 'internet of things' to attack the internet...
On Oct. 21, a cyberattack targeting Dyn, a New Hampshire company that provides domain registration services, "brought the internet to its knees," as numerous media put it. Websites for major outfits...
View ArticleThe Midcontinent Rift could have split North America apart a billion years...
Ever imagine Minnesota as a coastal state?The idea sounds absurd (especially as winter nears), but history shows that at one time, it wasn’t so unlikely: 1.1 billion years ago, the continent was...
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Check out these spectacular supermoon photos from all over the world
People from across the globe took to rooftops, hills, observatories and beaches to get a glimpse of the closest supermoon to Earth in almost seven decades, and snap photos of the event.The unusually...
View ArticleClimate momentum will continue: US envoy on Trump vote
The global drive to stave off disastrous global warming will continue regardless of who heads the US administration, Washington's top climate envoy said Monday on the election of climate change denier...
View ArticleThis Muslim purge in Myanmar is so awful you can see it from space
If Myanmar’s notorious army is to be believed — that’s a very big if — its soldiers are facing a highly deranged adversary.Along Myanmar’s marshy coastline, villages keep going up in flames. All of...
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There's no more food aid in eastern Aleppo. The depots are empty.
In two districts of the besieged eastern side of Syria's battleground city of Aleppo on Tuesday, local volunteers distributed meager bags containing the last food aid left in their depots."Our depots...
View ArticleKids in Macedonia made up and circulated many false news stories in the US...
“The pope endorses Donald Trump,” roared the headline.Only he didn’t.It’s just not true.But that didn’t stop the story from getting thousands upon thousands of "likes," shares and other forms of...
View ArticleZika is no longer a public health emergency, WHO says
The World Health Organization on Friday announced in an online press conference that the Zika virus outbreak no longer poses a world public health emergency."The Zika virus remains a highly significant...
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Haitian cacao farmers scramble to get their ‘success story’ back on track
If you’re into chocolate, and you’ve shopped at Whole Foods in the last couple of months, you might have seen Taza Chocolate’s stone ground Haiti bar. It hasn’t been easy, but cocoa production in Haiti...
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