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December 08, 2019

SpaceX delivers 'mighty mice,' worms, robot to space station

SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing muscle-bound “mighty mice,” ...

December 08, 2019

Climate scientists try to cut their own carbon footprints

For years, Kim Cobb was the Indiana Jones of climate science. The Georgia Tech professor flew to the caves of Borneo to study ...

December 08, 2019

French activists use Macron portraits to urge climate action

French environmental activists brandished stolen portraits of President Emmanuel Macron at a protest Sunday near the Eiffel ...

December 08, 2019

Minister: Brazil can't stop deforestation without help

Brazil can’t stop deforestation in the Amazon without the help of rich countries, the country’s environment minister said at ...

December 08, 2019

N. Korea conducts 'important test' at once-dismantled site

North Korea said Sunday that it carried out a “very important test” at its long-range rocket launch site that it reportedly ...

December 07, 2019

Venice tide barriers pass another test but skeptics remain

Floated along by barge , one of the 10-ton barriers designed to relieve Venice’s perennial flooding looks like a giant ...

December 06, 2019

Ivy Leaguers get community service for disrupting game

Students from Harvard and Yale universities, along with others who staged a climate change protest on the field during last ...

December 06, 2019

Nobel laureates chat with International Space Station crew

Winning a Nobel Prize is an achievement is a class of its own. But it might be even cooler to be an astronaut. That's the ...

December 06, 2019

Sanders announces $150B plan to expand broadband access

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is promising to invest $150 billion to bring high-speed internet to “every ...

December 06, 2019

Massive Polish coal mine sparks international dispute

Polluted air, noise, dry wells. The Turow lignite coal mine in Poland is causing trouble for the environment and local ...

December 06, 2019

Russian supply ship lifts off to International Space Station

An automatic Russian supply ship carrying tons of supplies successfully blasted off Friday heading for the International ...

December 06, 2019

Troubled waters: Open water swimming faces do-over of 2016

Haley Anderson has been through this before. In the lead-up to the Rio Olympics, all the talk about open water swimming ...

December 06, 2019

Mekong River’s new aquamarine color may be sign of trouble

The Mekong River has recently acquired an aquamarine color that may beguile tourists but also indicates a problem caused by ...

December 06, 2019

GM, Korea's LG Chem in venture to build factory in Ohio

General Motors and Korea's LG Chem have formed a joint venture to build an electric vehicle battery cell factory near ...

December 06, 2019

DHS retreats on possible facial screening of US citizens

The Homeland Security Department is backing away from requiring that U.S. citizens submit to facial-recognition technology ...

December 06, 2019

Amazon blaming Trump over Pentagon contract loss, judge says

Amazon is arguing in a court case that President Donald Trump's bias against the company harmed its chances of winning a $10 ...

December 05, 2019

US feels the heat as Trump pulls out of global climate pact

President Donald Trump is aiming to make the annual U.N.-sponsored climate talks underway in Madrid the last ones for full ...

December 05, 2019

EPA rejects ban on poison bombs against cattle predators

Trappers can keep using sodium cyanide bombs to kill coyotes and other livestock predators, the Trump administration said ...

December 05, 2019

Authorities say at least 28 killed in landslides in Burundi

At least 28 people have died in landslides in Burundi and that toll could grow with many people missing, local authorities ...

December 05, 2019

Miami Beach unveils traffic sculpture made of sand

It took artist Leandro Erlich two years and 330 tons (299 metric tons) of sand to create his largest work of art to date — ...