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Trail cameras capture unbelievable birth on remote island: 'This is a huge milestone'

Conservationists were thrilled to discover their kiwi repopulation efforts were bearing fruit on a remote island off the ...
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Researchers expose over 20 sites of illegal operations: 'It only destroys'

Rare earth mining is illegal in Laos, yet weak oversight and limited civic space have enabled the opening of at least 27 rare ...
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Officials and residents voice robust support for new advanced nuclear power plant: 'Watershed moment'

Officials in Emporia, Kansas, have voiced strong support for a proposal to build a Natrium advanced nuclear power plant in ...
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Resident frustrated by neighbor's reckless habit: 'I cannot understand why'

One Redditor is asking for help with their neighbor's idling truck, which is emitting a toxic cloud of exhaust fumes.
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Scientists make disturbing discovery in blood samples: 'Gives us a glimpse into the past'

Researchers found high levels of ultrashort-chain PFAS in blood samples taken from Wilmington's residents between 2010 and ...
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Onlooker shares photo of mysterious vessel anchored offshore: 'One of our overlords'

A zoomed-in video of a massive yacht floating in the San Francisco Bay, reportedly the vessel Mogambo, has caught the ...
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Community at odds over government's proposal to build ominous underground facility: 'Nobody showed up and asked about our concerns'

A proposal to build an underground storage site for high-level nuclear waste is dividing the small Japanese fishing town of ...
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Major company hit with lawsuit accusing it of misleading 'extremely vulnerable' customers: 'It was not an accident'

The victims of the biggest environmental disaster in Brazil's history earned a measure of justice with a court ruling in ...
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Scientists make disturbing discovery buried deep below Earth's surface: 'We don't yet know what consequences it has'

The results were staggering. Each type of microplastic altered the water flow through all soil types in varying ways. The ...
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Researchers issue urgent warning after discovering looming threat lingering off US coast: 'Everything was very bad'

Mollusk populations in the western Atlantic Ocean could see their range shrink by more than 60% as the planet overheats, ...
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NASA sends new billion-dollar satellite into space to track worrying threat on Earth: 'Key to helping improve public safety'

The new satellite, Sentinel-6B, was part of a billion-dollar project to measure long-term changes in sea level around the ...
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Experts raise concerns over unpredictable winter weather in US region: 'Residents need to prepare now'

Officials in Maryland are preparing for just about everything that Mother Nature might throw at them as the winter months ...