This Pacific Island Disappeared Under Rising Seas. A New Sculpture Marking the Spot Will Morph Into a Home for Seabirds, Coral and Marine Life

"The Solomon Siren" remembers Kale Island, submerged a decade ago in the Solomon Islands

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‘Our country is the mission’: more than 100 ex-Nasa astronauts launch new voting campaign

Astronauts for America liken effort to instill trust and faith back in constitution’s principles and democratic institutions to ‘making a course correction’

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A weed-killing drone is helping protect Colorado's wild turkey habitat

Colorado will employ an herbicide-spraying drone controlled by GPS in northeastern State Wildlife Areas to pinpoint noxious weeds and make room for good habitat.

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Wisconsin, coalition of states, win lawsuit against Trump administration cutting federal grants

A federal judge ruled late last week that the Trump administration had acted illegally last summer when it cut millions in federal grant money. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in the District of Ma...

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Nun speaks out for first time about being detained by ICE while walking to Mass in Texas

A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas is speaking out for the first time about her arrest while walking to Mass.

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Armless pilot's 'Impossible Airplane' nears completion thanks to NJ aircraft builders

A team of experimental aircraft builders from New Jersey are helping armless pilot Jessica Cox obtain the airplane of her dreams.

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New York offers college admission for residents unenrolled from Howard University

Historically Black institution withdrew more than 500 first-year students for missed tuition payments

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Delivery workers made $104 million more in tips after city began enforcing new law: Mamdani

The increase amounts to a yearly pay increase of $2,287 for each of the city’s roughly 70,000 delivery workers who drive and pedal through the five boroughs to bring meals to city dwellers’ doors, cit...

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Swimming toward safety: Endangered Tennessee fish gains critical habitat protection

An endangered green fish in central Tennessee nowIn response to decades of advocacy from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servic

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Uganda declares end to latest Ebola outbreak

Uganda's health minister declared the country Ebola-free on Tuesday ​following the East African nation's latest outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic ‌disease that infected 20 people and killed two of th...

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‘People think they’ll smell but they don’t’: building homes from mushroom waste and weeds

A sustainable project aims to repurpose encroacher bush to create building blocks to solve Namibia’s housing crisis

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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated 'slop' | TechCrunch

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.

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An Outdoor Gear Lover's Guide to Deadstock

A deep dive into the differences between dead stock, deadstock, and deadstock fabric, plus a survey of outdoor brands leaning into sustainably

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Molten salt and human sweat: the weird batteries that could store renewable energy

From Nevada to Manchester, developers are trialling innovative solutions to clean energy’s biggest challenge

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Snouts Save Lives

Accidentally Wes Anderson Snouts Save Lives Adventurer Stories

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Need free pads or tampons? In Tampa, you can visit a ‘period pantry’

Tampa Period Pantry has set up 10 locations to help fight 'period poverty.' It's attracting more attention after Gov. DeSantis vetoed funds for free menstrual products in Florida schools.

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Joy in Greece as Mount Olympus joins Unesco list of world heritage sites

Mythical home of the ancient Greek gods designated alongside the D-day landing beaches in Normandy

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Lessons from South Africa on how parks and community gardens can help cities adapt to climate change

Parks do more than cool cities. They also help people work together to cope with climate change, but only if local communities help design, manage and care for them.

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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.

It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.

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Michael J. Fox Will Be Honored With TV Academy’s Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmys

Michael J. Fox will recieve the TV Academy’s Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmys on Sept. 14.

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From fungus to fashion: Chinese scientists create sustainable ‘living textiles’

The fabric can clean and repair itself, opening the door to recyclable fashion and biodegradable packaging.

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This Island Is Inhabited by More Koalas Than Humans

Australia’s French Island is home to one of the country’s largest and healthiest koala populations, but it’s not impervious to the species’ struggles

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The government canceled this nature study. Scientists kept going anyway. » Yale Climate Connections

When the National Nature Assessment was shut down, the scientists who worked on it found another way. In this Q&A, one author explains what the research reveals about nature’s powerful, underused role...

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Activists defend century-old tree standing in way of Trump’s border wall

The tree is the last remaining of four cottonwoods that have stood along the U.S.-Mexico border in Lochiel, Arizona, for between an estimated 100 to 200 years. Border Patrol says the trees must be rem...

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Walz bans state workers from betting with private government info on prediction markets

The DFL governor's executive order comes after a judge temporarily blocked a new state law that bans prediction markets that had been set to take effect Saturday.

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Judge in trans military ban case demands Pentagon explain Hegseth’s testosterone double standard

Judge Ana Reyes is demanding answers about a policy that offers testosterone to some troops while citing hormone care to remove others.

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Meet the robots programmed by kids to speak their Indigenous languages

Many Native American languages are endangered. With the help of his mentor, a 12-year-old in Michigan hopes to help preserve his language through robotics.

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Elephants have distinct names for one another, CSU researchers discover

African elephants are among the first animals known to have names similar to humans.

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Pigeons are surprisingly good at detecting cancer

Scientists are using the birds' skills to train AI medical tools.

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These Catholic sisters want to start a new order with a difficult mission: helping survivors of clergy abuse

Sisters Theresa Alethia and Danielle Lussier call themselves the Sisters of the Little Way of Beauty, Truth and Goodness. Their order plans to help victims of abuse.

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