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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Is About To Get a Precarious Memory Wipe

Prior to its Aug. 12, 2005 launch, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was loaded up with 10 years’ worth of data projecting the future positions of Earth ...

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Environment

Poachers Are Using Cyanide To Slaughter Entire Elephant Herds

A total of 26 elephant carcasses were found dead on in just two weeks from cyanide poisoning in Hwange National Park, the largest game reserve in Zimbabwe. The latest incid...

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Sustainable Development

How Synthetic Lifeforms Will Help Us Survive On and Off Earth

“It’s a fixer-upper of a planet,” Musk told Stephen Colbert on a recent episode of The Late Show. “First you have to live in transparent domes, but ...

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Retroscope

Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

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Environment

This Bleak Documentary Clip Brings Home The Daily Reality Of Smog In China

When former television journalist Chai Jing released her self-produced documentary on climate change Under the Dome earlier this year, it was viewed 200 million times in on...

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Environment

The World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal Might Have Just Got A Lifeline

New conservation commitments from Mexican authorities will hopefully contribute to making vaquita sightings a more common occurrence. Agreements made in a recent session of...

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Environment

Every Forest Biome On Earth Is Actively Dying Right Now

But according to the latest issue of Science, which is devoted to forest health, every major forest biome is struggling. While each region suffers from unique pressures, th...

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Environment

The World Bank Warns That The ‘Carbon Bubble’ Could Tank The Global Economy

This is great news for the environment, and bodes well for a sustainable future on Earth. But according to Rachel Kyte, the VP of the World Bank and its special envoy for c...

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Environment

Almost Half Of The World's Ocean Life Has Died Off Since 1970

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature's 2015 Living Blue Planet report, since 1970, Earth has lost a whopping 49 percent of global marine animal species. For their in...

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Environment

Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Coral?

In 1998, an unusually sweltering El Ni?o did more than just break temperature records around the world?it heated up the oceans enough to spur what scientists came to call t...

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