Hawaii's Supreme Court upheld a decision to grant a construction permit for an embattled, international giant telescope project planned for a mountain Native Hawaiians consider sacred.
Space Exploration
Oct 30, 2018
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a special report outlining what would need to be done to keep the world from warming up by more than 1.5°C.
Environment
Oct 10, 2018
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Information technology outsourcing firm Infosys is opening a design and innovation hub in Rhode Island and plans to add 500 jobs in the state in the next five years, company and state officials announced on Monday.
Business
Nov 27, 2017
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In flooded resorts and storm-ravaged beach hotels dotted along the Caribbean archipelago, hundreds of US tourists are waiting for news from the State Department crisis task force.
Environment
Sep 12, 2017
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Though climate change has been an internationally recognised challenge since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, efforts towards reducing carbon emissions by governments remain uneven and insufficient.
Environment
Jul 21, 2017
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Long-running hearings for whether a giant telescope can be built atop a Hawaii mountain have wrapped up.
Space Exploration
Mar 3, 2017
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Many online shoppers in the United States have for years had to pay state sales taxes whenever they buy goods from Amazon. But the Seattle e-commerce giant has dragged its feet on collecting sales taxes in small and sparsely ...
Business
Jan 30, 2017
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Selling shark fins is now banned in Rhode Island.
Ecology
Jan 2, 2017
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Researchers at the Division of Solid-State Physics and the Division of Materials Physics at Uppsala University have shown how the collective dynamics in a structure consisting of interacting magnetic nano-islands can be manipulated. ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 9, 2016
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The nonprofit organization that wants to build a giant telescope atop a Hawaii mountain has selected another site in case it can't be built on land many Native Hawaiians consider sacred.
Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2016
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