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"Aedes, a grayish four-propeller drone, whirred off the scruffy dirt soccer field in this Amazon village to help do what doctors cannot as climate change threatens this nation with a new era of disease."
"A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily knocked out radio communication on Earth."
"The Biden administration approved the smallest offshore oil program in U.S. history Friday, a move that’s already provoked both outrage from Republicans and disappointment from climate activists who had urged the president to take more dramatic action."
"Global consumption of coal reached an all-time high in 2023, the IEA energy watchdog said Friday, as Earth experienced its hottest recorded year."
"Here’s what the new project means for the US and other countries beyond the Nordic region".
"A major restoration effort by a coalition of Tribes and government agencies could help imperiled fish and other animals on the Trinity River."
"Hundreds of thousands of neighborhoods in the United States are seeing population decline as a result of flooding, new research suggests. Those neighborhoods are often located in areas that are growing in population overall, including parts of Florida, Texas and the region around Washington, D.C."
"Chris Kelly writes a twice-weekly column for the Scranton Times-Tribune, his place of work for the past 27 years. For all but a few months of that tenure, his bosses have been the Lynett family, descendants of E.J. Lynett, a breaker boy in the coal mines of northeastern Pennsylvania who went on to buy the newspaper in 1895. Over four generations, the Lynetts reminded staffers and their community alike of their commitment to both local journalism and local ownership."
"An internal briefing note reveals BC Energy Regulator inspectors did not find any problems with Coastal GasLink’s emergency plans a few months before soaring temperatures led to flooded pipeline sites, slope failures and damage to sensitive creeks and wetlands".
"Abe Silverman’s Christmas Eve quickly went from low-key to frantic when Winter Storm Elliott brought a power grid emergency to "much of the Eastern seaboard."
"The virus, which recently reached the Antarctic region for the first time, is surging again in North America."
"The small neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens has a colorful history but an uncertain future because of climate change."
"The Biden administration has initiated a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train derailment earlier this year in eastern Ohio."
"Decommissioning the dams is the first step toward restoring salmon runs and respecting Native treaties".
"Citing new scientific research, a coalition of farm worker, public health and environmental advocates on Wednesday filed a legal petition with US regulators demanding they immediately suspend authorization for the controversial weed-killing chemical called glyphosate."
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