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Earliest ancient Maya salt works excavated
A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya ...
Countries are ramping up renewable energy plans, but not fast enough
Governments around the world agreed to triple renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade during pivotal United Nations ...
COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large
And then, the main dilemma: Who has to take responsibility for what? The so-called global south is pressing for money ...
Private prison stocks jump on Trump appointment of immigration hard-liner Tom Homan
A guard escorts an immigrant detainee from his ‘segregation cell’ back into the general population at the Adelanto Detention Facility, ...
‘The prescription is nature’: How satellites can show us the healing effects of nature
Nature surrounds us, but as our cities and urban environments encroach ever further across green spaces, are we losing one ...
Heartier Heinz? How scientists are learning to help tomatoes beat the heat
By studying tomato varieties that produce fruit in exceptionally hot growing seasons, biologists at Brown University identified the growth cycle ...
Microplastics Could Be Making the Weather Worse
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in ...
Jack Dorsey dramatically shutters Block’s TBD crypto unit
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter Inc., speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, ...
Forgetting may provide a surprising evolutionary benefit, experts say
Forgetting is part of our daily lives. You may walk into a room only to forget why you went in ...
Study of mountaineering mice sheds light on evolutionary adaptation
Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species ...