(AP)—Australia will continue to directly pay for climate change adaptation in vulnerable South Pacific island nations through its aid budget rather than donate to a U.N. Green Climate Fund designed for the same purpose, ...
Environment
Dec 5, 2014
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The Ku Klux Klan's failure to defeat the black civil rights moment is well documented, but the group's lesser-known legacy may be its lasting impact on the U.S. political system, according to a paper published in the December ...
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2014
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Emergencies at educational establishments are on the increase in recent years and campus officials are beginning to recognize that better communications with their students are now needed. Writing in the International Journal ...
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2014
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The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from the dwarf planet. This is Dawn's best image yet of Ceres as ...
Space Exploration
Dec 5, 2014
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed the completion of a sequence of the important operations for the Asteroid Exploration "Hayabusa2" mission including the deployment of the horn part of the sampler that ...
Space Exploration
Dec 5, 2014
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(AP)—NASA's new Orion spacecraft has hit its intended high point of 3,600 miles above Earth, the farthest a spacecraft built for humans has traveled in four decades.
Space Exploration
Dec 5, 2014
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(AP)—The Center for Whale Research in Washington state says an endangered Puget Sound orca has been found dead in British Columbia.
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2014
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(AP)—The cost to poor countries of adjusting to ever-hotter temperatures will be two or even three times higher than previously thought, the U.N.'s environment agency said Friday—and that assumes a best-case scenario ...
Environment
Dec 5, 2014
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The drugs we release into the environment are likely to have a significant impact on plant growth, a new study has revelealed.
Biotechnology
Dec 5, 2014
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The El Niño Southern Oscillation is Earth's main source of year-to-year climate variability, but its response to global warming remains highly uncertain.
Earth Sciences
Dec 5, 2014
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