No one saw the Chelyabinsk meteor of February 15, 2013 coming—the largest asteroid to strike Earth in over a century. Just after sunrise on a sunny winter's day, a 20-meter, 13,000-ton asteroid struck the atmosphere over ...
Astronomy
Feb 15, 2023
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Unique research carried out during the COVID pandemic has highlighted major problems with the Home Office application process for immigration claims.
Social Sciences
Feb 13, 2023
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As New Zealand's new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins embarks on reprioritizing policies to focus on "bread and butter issues", the details of the contentious Three Waters reforms remain unclear.
Environment
Feb 8, 2023
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The new BBC podcast, Buried, by investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor, is a compelling look at how criminals are infiltrating the U.K. waste disposal system. It opens with a tape recording by a trucker, on his ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2023
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French officials on the Caribbean island of Saint-Martin are seeking ways to battle an invasion of green monkeys, blamed for threatening the tropical tourism hotspot's fragile biodiversity, local authorities said.
Ecology
Feb 6, 2023
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The housing prospects for young people in the U.K. were completely changed by the global financial crisis of 2007–09. While the government largely succeeded in rescuing the banks and the housing market, it created an environment ...
Economics & Business
Feb 1, 2023
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French prosecutors said on Friday they would investigate the appearance of vast quantities of tiny toxic plastic pellets along the Atlantic coast that endanger marine life and the human food chain.
Environment
Jan 27, 2023
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A severe tropical storm which devastated parts of Madagascar this week is set to continue to wreak havoc on the country as it strengthens over the weekend, the United Nations regional weather monitoring service said.
Environment
Jan 27, 2023
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In her ruling on the death of two-year old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale in 2020, senior coroner Joanne Kearsley concluded that the child had died as a result of "prolonged exposure to mold in his home environment."
Economics & Business
Jan 13, 2023
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Excessive rain, heavy snow and landslides are expected to wallop California through Thursday as a series of winter storms rip across the western US coast, prompting the Golden State's governor to declare a state of emergency.
Environment
Jan 5, 2023
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