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Study: Measles Shot Helps Ward Off Other Illnesses

LOS ANGELES — A new study suggests that the measles shot comes with a bonus: By preventing that disease, the vaccine may also help your body fight off other illnesses...

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Environment

Part Of Antarctica Suddenly Started Melting At A Rate Of 14 Trillion Gal. A Year

Sometime in 2009, a long-stable, glacier-filled region in Antarctica suddenly began to melt. Fast. A team of scientists with the University of Bristol made the alarming obs...

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Hollywood

Katy Perry Urges Viet Nam’s Young Professionals To Help Improve Children’s Lives

Katy Perry, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and global pop superstar, made a special stop-over to Ho Chi Minh City where she gave the keynote speech at Forbes Viet Nam first-eve...

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Environment

Earth Wins Time As Land And Seas Absorb More Carbon

Climate change has intensified more slowly than scientists had expected because the continents and oceans are absorbing more atmospheric carbon dioxide. Half of all the car...

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Environment

CO2 Levels Reach Monthly Record

Global carbon dioxide concentrations have reached a new monthly record of 400 parts per million, according to scientists. The milestone was announced by the US National Oce...

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Environment

Global Warming Slowdown Offers Only Fleeting Relief

Scientists show that long-term temperature rise is the inevitable consequence of increasing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. The so-called hiatus in global warmi...

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Environment

Vatican Announces Major Summit On Climate Change

Catholic officials announced on Tuesday plans for a landmark climate change-themed conference to be hosted at Vatican later this month, the latest in Pope Francis’ fa...

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Environment

Why The Paris Climate Talks Won’t Be Another Copenhagen

The much-hyped 2009 Copenhagen climate summit yielded only a flimsy accord. But, Sydney University professor Nick Rowley writes that the 2015 Paris climate talks are not li...

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Environment

March Had Lowest Air Pollution In 4 Years, IITM Scientists Say

This March recorded the lowest particulate matter (PM2.5) levels-fine, respirable pollutants-in the past four years. While this could seem like a relief at the moment, scie...

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Environment

From The Archive, 31 March 1995: First Ozone Hole Found Over Arctic

Meteorologists and atmospheric chemists have watched in alarm as a similarly explosive mixture to the Antarctic vortex has been assembled in the Arctic For the first time, ...

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