A man was arrested at the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 23 June 2023 with five lion carcasses in his luggage. He was about to board a flight to Vietnam, where the use of lion bones in traditional ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 30, 2023
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As climate change warms Washington's mountain ranges, environmentalists are suing the federal government to protect one snow-loving bird of the Cascades.
Environment
Jun 27, 2023
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As the one-year anniversary passes on the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade—and with it the constitutional right to an abortion—University of Michigan public policy professor Paula Lantz offers insights on ...
Social Sciences
Jun 27, 2023
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Plastic pollution has become such major problem that it's threatening our human rights. That's the view of two UN special rapporteurs (human rights advisers) who recently issued a joint statement, warning against the "overwhelming ...
Environment
Jun 27, 2023
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It's been a year since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, and the predictions by several experts that the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would ...
Social Sciences
Jun 26, 2023
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States' to-do lists just got a little longer: Decide how—or whether—to oversee building, planting and water quality in some wetland areas.
Environment
Jun 19, 2023
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Over the past eight years, I have been asked to submit astronomical evidence for court cases all over Australia.
Astronomy
Jun 19, 2023
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A group of political scientists from Harvard University, working with a colleague from Yale University, has found via simulations that politically motivated gerrymandering in the U.S. tends to cancel out as both sides change ...
Confidence in the scientific community declined among U.S. adults in 2022, a major survey shows, driven by a partisan divide in views of both science and medicine that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Other
Jun 15, 2023
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Across the country, marshes, swamps and bogs quietly soak up flood water and filter pollutants. Ecologists agree they are one of the best natural defenses against climate change.
Environment
Jun 6, 2023
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