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A new study found that satellite images used to inform fishery closures did not capture the full extent of toxic oil from the 2010 spill.
My Christmassy hometown is looking less and less like a winter wonderland.
Researchers use models meant for infectious diseases to show how congestion proliferates. That may mean a vaccine for traffic jams is on the horizon.
Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.
A group of Black residents from St. James Parish, Louisiana, got the green light to hold an hour-long Juneteenth prayer on a burial plot, owned by plastics company Formosa.
Mississippi sued Memphis over its use of a deep aquifer. A possibly paradigm-shifting Supreme Court decision looms.
Social distancing measures have spawned a grand experiment in cities all over the United States, one that was once only imaginable in urbanists’ wildest dreams.
“They’re not hearing people speak to them on the issue in a manner that resonates.”
No more purely transactional relationships in 2020!
