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Pope Francis pins hopes on young people to abandon fossil fuels and preserve planet
Pope Francis has pinned his hopes on the efforts of young people to tackle climate change and preserve the planet.…
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Flood gardens to combat drought and biodiversity loss, says Natural England
This year has seen one of the driest summers on record, with most of the country still officially in drought.…
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Chicken farm giant linked to River Wye decline was sued over water blight in US
One of the world’s biggest food giants with a supply chain linked to the ecological decline of the River Wye…
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World Bank pledges $2 billion for flood-ravaged Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — The World Bank said it will provide about $2 billion in aid to Pakistan, ravaged by floods that…
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This Pastor Wants to Recreate a Black Farming Paradise in California
The extreme heat and drought don’t just threaten crops. These conditions make farm work more dangerous for workers and pose critical health…
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Exxon’s Long-Shot Embrace of Carbon Capture in the Houston Area Just Got Massive Support from Congress – Inside Climate News
Imagine a clean energy future, and you might picture giant turbines twisting in the wind, or electric vehicles zipping quietly…
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Pender board roundly rejects massive $300M solar project | Port City Daily
A satellite image showing the project area shown at the Board of Commissioners meeting. (Courtesy photo) PENDER COUNTY — A solar…
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Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Updated: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 08:04:43 GMT Source: CNN When her firstborn exhibited extreme sensitivity…
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Tropical Storm Ian about to have ‘rapid intensification,’ Florida track is uncertain
Tropical Storm Ian is expected to have “rapid intensification” today, grow into a major hurricane in the next 48 hours…
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US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling
This week, the US Department of Energy’s Berkeley Lab released its annual analysis of solar energy in the US. It…
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State regulatory agency proposes new ways to close Aliso Canyon’s natural gas storage facility
The California Public Utilities Commission on Friday, Sept. 23, made public for comment a staff proposal that creates a framework…
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Manchin’s Energy Permitting Bill Is a Failure of Democracy
The bill also creates a rolling list of national priority projects eligible for an expedited federal review, five of which—in…
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How prostate cancer may begin
Researchers at the University of East Anglia have made an important discovery about how prostate cancer may start to develop.…
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How does what we eat affect our healthspan and longevity? It’s a complex dynamic system: Study findings emphasize importance of taking a holistic approach to thinking about nutrients
The answer to a relatively concise question — how does what we eat affect how we age — is unavoidably…
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Cloned mini-pigs with gene defect provide new perspectives for the treatment of Alzheimer’s
For decades, researchers from all over the world have been working hard to understand Alzheimer’s disease. Now, a collaboration between…
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Fiona sets Atlantic Canada reeling; Ian forms in Caribbean » Yale Climate Connections
Update (8 p.m. EDT): A suddenly dire situation has developed in the Northwest Pacific, where what was a tropical storm…
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Tiny swimming robots treat deadly pneumonia in mice
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed microscopic robots, called microrobots, that can swim around in the…
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There’s Trouble Bubbling Up in Newly Formed Alaskan Lakes, And Scientists Are Worried
Lakes appearing in Alaska because of melting permafrost are “belching” methane into the atmosphere, a scientist working with NASA said.…
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Transition to newer clot-busting drug improves patient outcomes, lowers cost in treating ischemic stroke
A newer-generation clot-busting drug called tenecteplase outperforms the traditional treatment for ischemic strokes in several key areas, including better health…
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Mutation in key molecules could stop gonorrhea infection, biomedical sciences researchers find
Creating a mutation that inhibits how the bacterial pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted infection, could offer…
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Researchers test a novel hypothesis to explain the cause of autoimmunity in patients with type 1 diabetes: Once validated, may allow early treatment, prevention
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas makes little or no insulin. The details on…
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New research finds that viruses may have ‘eyes and ears’ on us: The newly-found, widespread ability of some viruses to monitor their environment could have implications for antiviral drug development
New UMBC-led research in Frontiers in Microbiology suggests that viruses are using information from their environment to “decide” when to…
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New research throws doubt on old ideas of how hearing works
The way in which we experience music and speech differs from what has until now been believed. This is the…
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Potential of precision genome editing in treating inherited retinal diseases: Improvements in technology and delivery techniques could revolutionize treatment of genetic disorders of vision
In a new paper, University of California, Irvine researchers explain how precision genome editing agents have enabled precise gene correction…
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Asexual relationships need same ingredients as any other relationship
Many asexual individuals, those with little to no sexual attraction, are in long-term satisfying romantic relationships, but there has been…
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Fiona makes landfall, slams Canada’s Atlantic coast with severe winds and rain
Fiona, now a post-tropical cyclone, had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph — the power of a Category 1 hurricane…
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11 Leg Exercises That Work Your Abs Too
From running to walking to climbing stairs, a whole lot of life happens on one leg. That’s why it’s helpful…
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Peter Dykstra: The good news that gets buried by the bad
Habitat loss. Climate change and its impacts. Mass extinctions. Pollution and its impacts. Every once in a while, maybe it’s…
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Study connects decomposing body’s BMI to surrounding soil microbes: How a decomposing body shuffles microorganisms in the soil
Research on decomposition often focuses on environmental factors like temperature or humidity, but researchers at the University of Tennessee in…
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Indoor air quality experiments show exposure risks while cooking, cleaning
When you’re cooking or cleaning inside your home, what chemicals are you breathing, and are they potentially harmful? Colorado State…
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Journalists Dissect Medical Coding and Parse the President’s Words
KHN freelancer Helen Santoro discussed insurance coverage for transgender medical care on KCRW’s “Press Play with Madeleine Brand” on Sept.…
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New abortion laws jeopardize cancer treatment for pregnant patients
By Charlotte Huff Kaiser Health News As abortion bans go into effect across a contiguous swath of the South, cancer…
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Cancer and diabetes aren’t the only conditions driving medical debt
Expensive ongoing treatment for cancer and diabetes are the best-known drivers of the medical debt that contributes to two-thirds of…
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Motherhood at work: Exploring maternal mental health: Postpartum is affecting mental health at work. What can companies do about it?
Up to 1 in 5 women in the postpartum period will experience a mental health disorder like postpartum depression or…
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Unhealthy gut sets stage for breast cancer to spread, research reveals
An unhealthy gut triggers changes in normal breast tissue that helps breast cancer spread to other parts of the body,…
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Researchers identify drug resistance factors for advanced prostate cancer
In a new study published in Molecular Cancer Research, Mayo Clinic researchers identified critical genomic changes in response to abiraterone…
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Exposing the evolutionary weak spots of the human genome
Mutations can be good and bad. Sometimes they help an organism adapt and survive. Other times they are so harmful…
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AI-based screening method could boost speed of new drug discovery: Using a technique that models drug and target protein interactions using natural language, researchers achieved up to 97% accuracy in identifying promising drug candidates
Developing life-saving medicines can take billions of dollars and decades of time, but University of Central Florida researchers are aiming…
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New study reveals breakthrough infections increase immunity to COVID-19: Latest laboratory study finds increasingly potent immune response protects against severe disease even in older adults; potential sea change in pandemic
Vaccine boosters and breakthrough infections following vaccination both provide a substantial and potentially pandemic-breaking immunity against COVID-19, according to new…
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SARS-CoV-2 infects fat tissue, creates inflammatory storm cloud, study finds
A study by Stanford Medicine investigators shows that SARS-CoV-2 can infect human fat tissue. This phenomenon was seen in laboratory…
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Why whales don’t get brain damage when they swim
Special blood vessels in whale brains may protect them from pulses, caused by swimming, in their blood that would damage…
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Newly discovered COVID-like virus could infect humans, resist vaccines
A recently discovered virus in a Russian bat that is similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, is likely capable…
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An icy swim may cut ‘bad’ body fat, but further health benefits unclear
Taking a dip in cold water may cut ‘bad’ body fat in men and reduce the risk of disorders such…
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Findings explain exceptional auditory abilities in Williams-Beuren Syndrome: Scientists from St. Jude identified the mechanism by which the disorder enhances the ability to discriminate between sounds as interneuron hyperexcitability in the auditory cortex
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a rare disorder that causes neurocognitive and developmental deficits. However, musical and auditory abilities are preserved…
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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines
A test from Environmental Health News and wellness website Mamavation found that 13 out 39 brands of dental floss tested…
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New study identifies cortisol level as indicator of addiction recovery success
A new study by researchers at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine found that lower initial cortisol…
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Shape-shifting fat cells fuel breast cancer growth: Study suggests fat cells near malignant breast tumors morph into other cell types, creating ‘fertile soil’ for the disease
Fat cells, or adipocytes, that grow in close proximity to breast cancers can shift into other cell types that promote…
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Kaine says Mountain Valley Pipeline provision in Manchin bill ‘could open the door to serious abuse and even corruption’ – Virginia Mercury
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (D) on Thursday sharply criticized a provision of a federal energy permitting reform bill that would…
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Discovery could power up platelet production to battle blood shortages
A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine could let doctors ramp up production of blood-clotting platelets…
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Reusable contact lenses more than triple risk of rare preventable eye infection
People who wear reusable contact lenses are nearly four times as likely as those wearing daily disposables to develop a…
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