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Mourners gather in Beirut to pay respects to Lebanese conservationist who died after Israeli strike

BEIRUT (AP) — Mourners gathered Sunday in Beirut to pay their respects to a much-loved Lebanese conservationi...

FDA panel backs first-of-its-kind flu vaccine using mRNA technology

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new kind of flu vaccine moved a step closer to the U.S. market Thursday as federal...

Archaeology team unearths 'prototype' of world-famous Stonehenge monument just a few miles away

LONDON (AP) — Archaeologists revealed Thursday that they have discovered a structure near the prehistoric...

Xcel’s Boulder coal ash cleanup is moving forward. Critics say another source of pollution remains.

Colorado regulators are reviewing Xcel Energy’s final plan to clean up groundwater contamination caused...

15 countries in Kenya adopt the Mombasa Declaration to fight illegal fishing

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Fifteen countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific adopted...

Ancient teeth from Siberia rewrite the plague’s timeline, dating back to over 5,500 years ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have found the oldest known evidence of the plague , which sparked deadly...

A shrinking strip of New Orleans marsh helps protect 1.5 million people. Louisiana wants to save it

There’s an increasingly narrow strip of New Orleans marshland that hardly anyone lives on, but without...

African and Commonwealth nations in Kenya urge quick execution of a key treaty protecting oceans

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — African and Commonwealth nations called Tuesday for a swift implementation of...

Dan David Prize awards 9 scholars $300,000 each for research on the human past

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Dan David Prize will award nine historians and archaeologists with $300,000 to...

5.5 magnitude earthquake rattles Tokyo region but no danger of a tsunami, meteorological agency says

TOKYO (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 shook eastern Japan, including Tokyo,...

Disaster drills helped prevent more deaths when powerful quake hit the southern Philippines

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials said Friday that years of disaster-preparedness drills...

El Nino is here and scientists fear it'll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

WASHINGTON (AP) — El Nino, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean an...

Reactor reboot at world's largest nuclear plant highlights flaws in Japan's radioactive waste plans

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan (AP) — Japan has resumed operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant...

Climate change makes once-rare coastal floods more likely, study says

Extreme floods that once swamped coastal communities only rarely are becoming far more common as clima...

An ancient whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean teems with life

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have unearthed communities of marine life — including jellyfish, tubeworms...

An underground detector in China unveils its first major findings about mysterious ghost particles

NEW YORK (AP) — A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles...

‘Hey, this box stinks’: the weird work of intercepting trafficked wildlife in Alaska

Chris Andrews was working the belt at the Anchorage airport last fall, watching international cargo...

NASA unveils Artemis III astronauts to test technology for a future moon landing

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA on Tuesday revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in the...

A flesh-eating cattle parasite spreads beyond Texas as new screwworm cases are found

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside the main cluster...

A 7.8 magnitude quake in the Philippines kills at least 35, collapses buildings and sparks tsunami

DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 hit the southern Philippines...

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