Nearly 190 million Americans are under some form of heat advisory or warning as of Monday afternoon amid an early summer heat wave. Why it matters: The event, which broke temperature records across the West and Alaska before shifting east, is bringing an especially dangerous combination of heat and humidity. Much of the eastern U.S. […]
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Most voters want bold climate policy, but politicians often don’t realise it. The 89 Percent Project is designed to make that public support impossible to ignore. Some of the world’s most respected newsrooms have united in a global climate reporting drive to amplify the voices of the ‘silent majority’ who care about the environment –
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“Fine words” that “must now translate into action” – that was Greenpeace’s verdict on the UN Ocean Conference, which wrapped up in Nice last weekend The summit offered some signs of progress in the race to save our oceans with more nations ratifying a global treaty to protect 30% of the high seas by 2030,
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Global warming threatens life as we know it as never before. But we have the tools and the power to meet the challenge. Here are seven smart solutions to climate change. Our entire civilisation has unfolded under the skies of a remarkably stable climate. Now, thanks largely to human actions, that stability has come crashing
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A new drug pathway is “transforming” the lives of people with leukaemia and could revolutionise how the disease is treated, scientists said this week. The comments came in response to a study that found that a new combination drug therapy significantly outperformed chemotherapy for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). The FLAIR trial followed 786
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Microsoft and OpenAI are engaged in tense negotiations that could unravel one of the most important alliances in AI and fundamentally reorder the industry. Microsoft and OpenAI are engaged in tense negotiations that could unravel one of the most important alliances in AI and fundamentally reorder the industry. Why it matters: Microsoft has injected billions
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