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In a review published in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change, top scientists issued an urgent warning that fossil fuels ...

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In the hours after a massive earthquake flattened buildings in Myanmar's Mandalay on Friday, survivors scrambled through the ...

The U.S. saw a dramatic rise in climate-related disasters last year, even as federal leaders weigh dismantling the agency ...

Globally, the climate crisis is also a human rights crisis. Dealing with environmental degradation and the climate crisis in ...

He stated that creating a self-sustaining human colony on Mars could protect civilisation from existential threats like nuclear war or climate disasters. SpaceX, led by Musk, is actively developing ...

Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster. By Michael S. Rosenwald The story of how James ...

It's a good idea to trim fingernails too, to prevent the eggs from getting caught under them. Threadworms aren't the only worms (helminths) that invade humans. Hookworms, for example, affect about 470 ...