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Companies remind Trump: What’s good for the planet can be good for business
Donald Trump has famously called climate change a hoax. That kind of talk doesn’t just worry scientists and environmentalists; it's also of concern for many American businesses. And they’re letting the...
View ArticleWhat the Mexico City rule means to women around the world
One of Donald Trump's first acts as president was to restrict access to abortion.On Monday, he reinstated the so-called "Mexico City Policy," which forbids the US from funding any group that provides...
View ArticleTrump gives the go-ahead to two controversial oil pipelines. Canada's PM sees...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday revived two pipeline projects blocked by his predecessor on environmental grounds, signaling his determination to undo Barack Obama's legacy.Trump gave a...
View ArticlePeople around the world are helping the US save its climate data
Michelle Murphy is a professor in Canada, but her research on the Great Lakes depends on water quality data collected by her neighbors to the south.Specifically, the US Environmental Protection...
View ArticlePresident Donald Trump isn't the only world leader denying climate change
Scientists have reason to be scared about Donald Trump's presidency: He has falsely connected vaccines to autism, questioned the validity of manmade climate change (even scrubbing the White House's...
View ArticleCoal country is pinning its hopes on Trump
One of the promises President Donald Trump made on the campaign trail was to reopen coal mines and put miners back to work. The message resonated in Pennsylvania’s coal country and helped Trump win the...
View ArticleAlmost half of what we do at work could be automated by 2055
Almost half the activities people are paid to do globally could be automated using current levels of technology, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute.But before we start...
View ArticleTeenage indecision? That’s just the growing brain, a new study says.
Teenagers can be indecisive, but new research suggests they aren’t (entirely) doing it to torture you. According to a new study published in eNeuro, picky adolescent behavior is natural — and it can...
View ArticleTwo new NASA missions look to asteroids for clues about our early solar system
Sure, they're space rocks that sometimes hurtle past Earth a little too close for comfort — asteroids, that is. But for researchers involved in two new NASA missions titled Lucy and Psyche, asteroids...
View ArticleHow Iranian scientists at one Harvard lab are reacting to Trump’s immigration...
Scientists from Iran loom large in the history of American innovation.In the 1980s, an Iranian American doctor, Gholam A. Peyman, helped invent laser eye surgery. In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the...
View ArticleFighting the STEM gender gap with stories of trailblazing female scientists
For writer and illustrator Rachel Ignotofsky, the idea to profile 50 pioneering female scientists in her recent book, “Women in Science,” was spurred by conversations with educator friends. As they...
View ArticleAn independent study confirms NOAA's conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer
A new analysis of sea surface temperatures from an independent source corroborates updated global warming data released in 2015 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.The results...
View ArticleWhy the shortage of veggies in UK shops? Lettuce find out.
First it was the zucchinis. Then the iceberg lettuce. Then even the satsumas, those small mandarin oranges. That's when The World's reporter in London, Leo Hornak, says he really got hungry: "I'm at...
View ArticleObama's hidden, and surprising, fossil fuel legacy
Investigative reporting by a joint team from The Guardian and the Columbia University School of Journalism reveals that the US Export-Import Bank financed around 70 coal-fired power plants and other...
View ArticleUber is making ride-booking data publicly available. Is this a privacy...
What would you do with data from more than 2 billion trips taken with the ride-booking service Uber?Soon, you'll be able to explore the possibilities. The company recently debuted a new online tool...
View ArticleA new report recommends updating the 'social cost' of carbon calculation
A report from some of the top minds in environmental policy and economics is recommending a new way of evaluating the "social costs" of carbon pollution to keep up with the best available science.The...
View ArticleA theoretical physicist approaches the complexity — and mystery — of quantum...
“Overall, discovering the world is a complicated business,” says the theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli. “And it goes slowly. It has always gone slowly. And it's still going slowly now, I...
View ArticleStartups in China are reigniting a passion for cycling
Unlock them with an app, drop them off anywhere, and nip past lanes of stationary car traffic: The humble bicycle is seeing a revival in China as a new generation of startups help tackle urban...
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The rarest porpoise in the world is on the verge of disappearing forever
The vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise, lives only in Mexico’s Gulf of California and is critically endangered, due to illegal fishing. Now, the Center for Biological Diversity plans legal action...
View ArticleA US-trained scientist was deported, then became the 'father of Chinese...
Fear can lead to dumb decisions. And that could be an unintended consequence of US President Donald Trump’s ban on travel and immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, according to Peter W....
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