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Deaths during Hajj: How this year's pilgrimage tur...
After 1,300 people died during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, witnesses and experts say high temperatures and diff...
Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denm...
Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first c...
CDC issues dengue fever alert in the U.S.
This year, global dengue fever cases hit record highs due to rising temperatures, creating ideal conditions for mosquito...
Summer’s start: A deadly week of extreme weather
In the last week, extreme weather has wreaked havoc in many parts of the U.S. and around the world. The events have brou...
NASA astronauts' return on Boeing's spaceship has ...
The NASA astronauts who flew Boeing’s Starliner capsule to the space station have been in orbit longer than anticipated ...
A slew of new weight loss drugs are in development...
At the ADA conference in Orlando, researchers will present data on 27 GLP-1 drugs in development, while others focus on ...
A deadly tornado and a rare feat for storm chasers...
As a deadly tornado cut a path across Iowa last month, storm chasers tracked it, gathering rare data that is now offerin...
Levels of contamination in the Seine remain unsafe...
Levels of contamination in Paris’ River Seine remain unsafe for Olympians to compete, with just over a month until the g...
California to become third state to mandate heat p...
California is poised to pass the state’s first regulations to protect indoor workers from extreme heat — a policy that c...
The Iberian lynx is back from the brink of extinct...
The Iberian lynx was on the brink of extinction just over two decades ago. But the animal, native to Spain and Portugal,...
Climate change made killer heat wave in Southwest ...
This month’s heat in the Southwestern U.S., Mexico and Central America was 35 times more likely and 2.5 degrees hotter b...
A giant dinosaur roamed Montana with blade-like ho...
Anyone wandering 78 million years ago through the swamplands of modern day Montana may have come across a dinosaur so un...
So long plastic air pillows: Amazon shifting to re...
Amazon is shifting from the plastic air pillows used for packaging in North America to recycled paper because it’s more ...
A record-breaking number of mosquitoes are carryin...
A record-breaking number of mosquitoes in and around Las Vegas are carrying West Nile virus, sparking warnings from loca...
Colombian family’s genes offer new clue to delayin...
Scientists studying a Colombian family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s found some family members carry a mutation t...
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Sci...
A nasty fungus can take control over a cicada, producing amphetamine in the critter and making them hypersexual, thereby...
White House swears in first class of American Clim...
The Biden administration on Tuesday swore in the first class of the American Climate Corps, a federal program that is me...
Olympic hopefuls speak out about fears of severe s...
Ahead of the Paris Olympics, athletes are voicing fears of a summer heat wave, saying the effects of climate change coul...