US greenhouse gas emissions barely decreased in 2024, leaving the world's largest economy off track to achieve its climate goals, according to an analysis released Thursday, as the incoming Trump administration looks set ...
Environment
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A critical gene that leads to the synthesis of a protein known as Knr4 could be the key to what makes some fungal pathogens so virulent. Focusing prevention strategies on disabling or modifying this gene or the protein it ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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In Boyle Heights, a predominantly Hispanic/Latino neighborhood, residents face disproportionate exposure to toxic air pollution, which is linked to chronic illnesses like asthma and heightened mortality risks.
Environment
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This year will be one of the hottest ever. It'll probably feature horrendous extreme weather, crop failures and a further crackdown on climate activism.
Environment
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Two massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighborhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles were totally uncontained on Thursday, authorities said, as shell-shocked residents began to pick through the charred wreckage ...
Environment
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Last March, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget approved changes to the ethnic and racial self-identification questions used by all federal agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau. The changes include merging the ...
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Two US astronauts who have been stuck for months on the International Space Station (ISS) said Wednesday they have plenty of food, are not facing a laundry crisis, and don't yet feel like castaways.
Space Exploration
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"We take nothing by conquest…Thank God," wrote the National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, an influential Washington newspaper, in February 1847.
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Wildfires threatened to engulf parts of Hollywood on Thursday as a growing number of blazes raged across Los Angeles, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and claiming at least five lives.
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As I write this, five people are dead and at least 1,000 buildings have been destroyed by wildfires that have swept across Los Angeles. Around 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate.
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