After a semester in a class, most students gain new knowledge, skills and maybe some new friends. For students in Assistant Professor Mitzy Porras' Biology class, several undergraduates also walked away with a peer-reviewed ...
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Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ones, a key economic ...
Economics & Business
Oct 13, 2025
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The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday.
Ecology
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Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting—yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades. Can it last?
Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2025
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Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal's safer warming limit.
Environment
Oct 13, 2025
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"Red John" is an old acquaintance of landowners and ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon.
Environment
Oct 13, 2025
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Standing near the lifeless body of her sister, Rosalia Ortega was grateful to have found her in the river of mud that suddenly swept away her house as torrential rains pounded her Mexican mountain town.
Environment
Oct 13, 2025
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A new fossil fuel site approved for development off Western Australia's coast is estimated to contribute 876 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over the course of its lifetime, according to new research led by ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2025
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This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda?
Environment
Oct 13, 2025
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The final Nobel of this year's prize season is being announced Monday morning when organizers reveal the winner or winners of the Nobel memorial prize in economics.
Economics & Business
Oct 13, 2025
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