We have used machine learning to identify the biggest plastic pollution hotspots across more than 50,000 towns, cities and rural areas worldwide. Our new global model reveals the most detailed picture of plastic pollution ...
Environment
Sep 7, 2024
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Is authoritarian populism finally being rejected by citizens around the world?
Political science
Sep 7, 2024
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Volcanoes were still erupting on the moon when dinosaurs roamed Earth, new research suggests.
Earth Sciences
Sep 7, 2024
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Kamilaroi Country lies in far northwest New South Wales, past Tamworth and crossing over the Queensland border. Here, the bunyip bird (Australasian bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus), and the brolga (Grus rubicunda or burraalga ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2024
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The official U.S. food insecurity rate rose to 13.5% in 2023 from 12.8% in 2022, according to data the U.S. Department of Agriculture released on Sept. 4, 2024. That means more than one in eight Americans—about 47 million ...
Economics & Business
Sep 7, 2024
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If you're not susceptible to urban myths and misinformation, there's a new study from the World Health Organization that will ease your 2010s-era anxieties about cell phones. There were a lot of other developments this week, ...
Ph.D. candidate Elysia Petras and archaeologist Dr. Brandi MacDonald recently discovered 15 sherds of Afro-Caribbean pottery ware at Jackson Wall Manor on the Cayman Islands. Through their analysis, they discovered that the ...
Space is an unnatural environment for humans. We can't survive unprotected in a pure vacuum for more than two minutes. Getting to space involves being strapped to a barely contained chemical explosion.
Space Exploration
Sep 7, 2024
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The 2024 northern summer saw the highest global temperatures on record, beating 2023's high and making this year likely Earth's hottest ever recorded, the EU's climate monitor said Friday.
Environment
Sep 7, 2024
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After 24 years diligently studying Earth's magnetic field, a satellite will mostly burn up over the Pacific Ocean on Sunday during a "targeted" re-entry into the atmosphere, in a first for the European Space Agency as it ...
Space Exploration
Sep 7, 2024
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