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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – President Joe Biden’s order to protect the nation’s oldest forests against climate change, wildfires and other problems devastating vast woodlands is raising a simple yet vexing …
Biden forest plan stirs dispute over what counts as “old” Read MoreChester Zoo vets take a tissue sample from a chattering lory – a threatened tropical bird “He’s gone,” murmurs Chester Zoo vet Gabby Drake – holding a stethoscope to the …
Why scientists are freezing threatened species in ‘biobanks’ Read MoreReady to go: This will be the second demonstration flight The American Boeing company will try shortly to run another demonstration flight of its new astronaut capsule. Called Starliner, it’s …
Boeing aims for new test launch of Starliner astronaut capsule Read MoreRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Chile holds itself out as a global leader on climate change. Nearly 22% of Chile’s electricity is generated by solar and wind farms, putting it …
How gas interests slowed Chile’s clean energy transition Read MoreAn Atlas 5 rocket carrying Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule was mounted on its seaside launch stand Wednesday, setting the stage for blastoff Thursday on the company’s third attempt to complete …
Boeing Starliner capsule poised for high-stakes flight Read MoreResearchers studying Asian elephants used an unexpected resource to learn about how the animal responds to death: YouTube. Rare behaviors in animals – like how they respond to the death …
Elephants may mourn deaths, researchers find through YouTube videos Read MoreThe sophisticated French-UK seismometer package is just weeks away from being shut off The seismometer on Nasa’s InSight probe will keep listening for Marsquakes even as other systems on the …
‘Marsquake’ mission in its last months Read MoreAn artist’s impression of a Denisovan next to a picture of the tooth found in Laos.Maayan Harel / Fabrice Demeter (University of Copenhagen / CNRS Paris) / Insider A tooth …
An ancient tooth found in a cave proves an extinct species of archaic humans lived in southeast Asia over 130,000 years ago Read MoreCANBERRA, Australia (AP) – An Australian state attorney general on Wednesday declined to pardon a mother convicted almost 20 years ago of smothering her four children to death and instead …
New inquiry into Australian mother convicted of 4 homicides Read MoreGoing out with a bang, NASA’s InSight Mars lander, slowly dying as light-blocking dust builds up on its solar arrays, detected the most powerful marsquake yet recorded May 4, a …
InSight Mars lander nears the end of the road Read More