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Scientists Want To See Microbeads Banned — And California Is Leading The Way

In a recent report, researchers from seven institutions have estimated that every day, a whopping 808 trillion microbeads are washed down drains in the United States, while...

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Environment

Microbiologists Find Another 30,000 Year Old Giant Virus In Siberian Permafrost

For their part, scientists haven't had a very hard time finding those giant viruses. From a single sample of Siberian permafrost, they've managed to come up with two so far...

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A Natural Balance

We aspire for a better world but are often absorbed with our own lives to take decisive measures. That is, until a film galvanises us into taking action. Our top five secti...

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Thought Factory

Years Of Living Dangerously: Merchants Of Doubt hiding An Inconvenient Truth

The Climate Change debate has been active for close to thirty years now. James E Hansen was the first scientist to expose to dangers of climate change when he decided to of...

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Environment

Giant Prehistoric Viruses Could Be Awakened By Oil Drilling In Siberian Permafrost.

Several giant viruses have been discovered in the past decade, and although they have all turned out to be harmless, the findings have sparked fears that one day, humans co...

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Environment

Tens of Thousands of Stranded Walruses Are Once Again Gathering in Alaska

With the sea ice where they rest and hunt melted away, thousands of walruses have once again flooded the shoreline near the village of Point Lay, Alaska. The massings, whic...

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Environment

The Ten-Year Mission To Study All The Ways The Arctic Is Doomed

Called the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE for short, the large-scale study will combine on-the-ground field studies as well as data from remote sensors?su...

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Environment

Here's Why Brushing Your Teeth Is Bad For The Oceans.

The tiny exfoliating "microbeads" that millions of people slather onto their faces every morning are having a dire effect on the marine ecosystems, according to a new resea...

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Health

Scientists Get One Step Closer To A Universal Flu Vaccine

LAST YEAR’S SEASONAL flu vaccine was a bit of a dud: It reduced a person’s risk of needing to see a doctor for the flu by only 23 percent. That wasn’t any...

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Scientists Get One Step Closer To A Universal Flu Vaccine

LAST YEAR’S SEASONAL flu vaccine was a bit of a dud: It reduced a person’s risk of needing to see a doctor for the flu by only 23 percent. That wasn’t any...

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