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Efforts to combat climate change often exclude Indigenous people – and they may not have any recourse
Imagine living in the same forest as your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and all your ancestors as far back in time as stories can tell, and depending on the forest for food, shelter, recreation and education....
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Have we finally worked out how Venus flytraps snap shut?
The mystery of how a Venus flytrap closes fast enough to catch insect prey may have been partially solved.
Venus...
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Global map reveals the vast scale of underground fungal networks
Just under Earth’s surface, 110 quadrillion kilometres of carbon-rich fungi intersect with plant roots. This vast network has been...
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How Pennsylvania towns are protecting themselves from the noise, heat and utility costs of massive data centers
Pennsylvania has become a hot spot for data center proposals and public backlash about where to build them.I’m a law professor and executive director of Penn State’s Center for Energy Law and Policy. I’m also...
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Vaping after quitting smoking is linked to lung cancer
Smokers who give up cigarettes but still vape have more than a 50 per cent higher chance of developing...
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Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life
People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire on a once-forested hillside, or a ghostly white coral reef, may evoke tragedy and despair. But in...
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Who is allowed to walk on the beach? It depends on where you live
Summer is here – the perfect time to take a walk on a beach. But doing so is not always as simple as it might sound.In Wisconsin, for instance, a legal case has stretched for...
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Home insurance and the unraveling of Florida communities
While visiting family in St. Petersburg, Florida, in November 2024, I found myself walking down a quiet residential street in Shore Acres, a low-lying, bayfront neighborhood not far from where I grew up.Two months earlier,...
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Firefighters face a higher risk of skin cancer – nano fabrics with tiny, rough fibers can help keep them safer
Wildland firefighters are exposed to a mix of harmful chemicals in the smoke they breathe and the ash and soot that gets on their clothing. Over long assignments fighting fires that can last for days...
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Innovative projects explore ways to deal with extreme heat
When MIT mechanical engineering Professor Kripa Varanasi landed in New Delhi in the middle of the night...
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