Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of home dwellers and hotel guests quite like the bedbug. The tiny, blood-sucking pests are notoriously difficult to exterminate, competing with cockroaches, mice and lice for the title ...
Ecology
Jun 2, 2025
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United Launch Alliance's years-long delays with its new Vulcan rocket have flipped the script for national security missions, making SpaceX the new reliable provider.
Space Exploration
Jun 2, 2025
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U.S. President Donald Trump wants to tap the private sector to pave the way for human missions to Mars in a proposal that closely aligns with the goals of Elon Musk.
Space Exploration
Jun 2, 2025
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Concerningly low amounts of water are flowing from the Rocky Mountain snowpack this spring, a summer of drought looms across swaths of the West, and the negotiators tasked with devising a sustainable long-term water plan ...
Environment
Jun 2, 2025
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Four-time spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson had a good excuse for not showing up Saturday for her own induction ceremony to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Space Exploration
Jun 2, 2025
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In the Paris Agreement of 2015, the international community of countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 °C, and preferably to 1.5 °C, compared to pre-industrial levels. This refers to the increase in global ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 2, 2025
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Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, but because the land has been depleted of its water. A common mining method known as suction mining ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 2, 2025
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Flooding in coastal communities is happening far more often than previously thought, according to a new study from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study also found ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 2, 2025
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Nations will be under pressure to deliver more than just rhetoric at a UN oceans summit in France next week, including much-needed funds to better protect the world's overexploited and polluted seas.
Environment
Jun 2, 2025
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A global target of having 30% of the oceans become protected areas by 2030 is looking more fragile than ever, with little progress and the United States backing away, conservationists say.
Ecology
Jun 2, 2025
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