A riverside community in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands narrowly escaped raging wildfires last month, but some say the record-setting blazes—still burning nearby—are compounding threats to their way of life.
Environment
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Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as a wildfire rages out of control in northern California, with a swathe of the United States in the grip of a "record-breaking and dangerous" heat wave that was complicating ...
Environment
Jul 4, 2024
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Hurricane Beryl powered towards Mexico and the Cayman Islands early Thursday, threatening strong winds and a storm surge after battering Jamaica's southern coast.
Environment
Jul 4, 2024
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Torrential rains and surging rivers across northeast India and neighboring Bangladesh have killed at least nine people, disaster officials said Thursday, with more than three million people affected.
Environment
Jul 4, 2024
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Findings published in a new paper in the British Journal of Educational Studies challenge the idea that academically selective schools are necessary for clever pupils to achieve good outcomes.
Education
Jul 4, 2024
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Scientists in South Africa have been stunned to discover that termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid region of the country are more than 30,000 years old, meaning they are the oldest known active termite hills.
Plants & Animals
Jul 4, 2024
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One of the greatest mysteries of science could be one step closer to being solved. Approximately 80% of the matter in the universe is dark, meaning that it cannot be seen. In fact, dark matter is passing through us constantly—possibly ...
General Physics
Jul 4, 2024
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