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The MTA flooded a subway stop on purpose because 'climate change is real.'...
On Wednesday afternoon, New Yorkers encountered a fully submerged subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.One commuter tweeted a photo of the flooded stairs and asked the Metropolitan Transportation...
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The most mind-boggling scientific discoveries of 2019 include the first image...
Astronomers, anthropologists, geologists, and many other scientists made mind-boggling breakthroughs in 2019.Some highlights include work that produced the first image of a black hole, traced the...
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The only #2009vs2019 photos we should care about — people are using the...
People's social-media feeds have been filled with posts that juxtapose a photo of a person in 2009 and one of them in 2019. Earlier this year, this was termed the "10-year challenge."Environmental...
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Hotter weather is causing babies to come early. Nearly 70,000 US moms could...
Hot weather has been linked with spikes in early births in the US, according to a new study.The research found that there were more than 25,000 heat-related early births in the US between 1969 and...
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A sperm whale that died on a Scottish beach had 220 pounds of trash in its...
Editor's Note: Some of the images in this story are graphic.A juvenile sperm whale weighting 22 tons washed up on the Isle of Harris in Scotland on Thanksgiving.While performing a necropsy, whale...
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Most popular wildlife photos of the year show mice duking it out in the...
The London Natural History Museum's annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition offers the public the chance to vote on their favorite images. The front-runners for the people's choice award...
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Air New Zealand is trialling edible, vanilla-flavored cookie coffee cups on...
Air New Zealand is trialling edible coffee cups made from cookies.The vanilla biscotti cups will be served both on-board and in the regional airport lounge in Auckland, Stuff reports. As well as hot...
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Humans aren't the only species that rely on grandmothers to watch the kids:...
Humans and orca whales have something in common: in both species, females survive long after they stop bearing children.In humans, anthropologists use the term "grandmother effect" to refer to the...
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Greenland's ice is melting 7 times faster than it did in the early 90s —...
The Greenland ice sheet is melting seven times faster than it was in 1992 — an increase that's even greater than scientists expected.According to a new study, Greenland has lost more than 4.2 trillion...
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The world's first human-composting facility is set to open in 2021. Families...
Earlier this year, Washington passed a bill that makes it the first US state to allow human composting. The law will go into effect in 2020. Seattle-based company Recompose intends to open the world's...
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Greta Thunberg's Twitter bio is trolling Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro,...
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called climate activist Greta Thunberg a "pirralha," which means "little brat" in Portuguese on Tuesday.Two days prior, Thunberg had spoken out against the killing of...
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How 16-year-old Greta Thunberg — Time's 2019 person of the year — became the...
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old activist from Sweden, has become the face of the youth climate movement.In the summer of 2018, Thunberg started sitting outside the Swedish parliament every Friday. On...
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Greta Thunberg, who was just named Time's 2019 person of the year, says she's...
The 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg has become the face of the youth climate movement. On Wednesday, Time magazine named Thunberg the 2019 person of the year.In a video from Time, Thunberg said she...
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Thousands of 10-inch worms known as 'penis fish' inundated a California...
A beach in Point Reyes, California, was inundated with thousands of marine worms known as "penis fish" on December 6.The pink creatures, sometimes also called "fat innkeeper worms," usually live under...
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The biggest thing early stage startups should avoid when pitching to...
Jeff Canin is an expert on early-stage startups, having evaluated hundreds of business proposals as an investor and business advisor. If there's one thing that turns him off when hearing a pitch, it's...
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50 of the most powerful photos taken by Reuters staff this year
Reuters has unveiled its pictures of the year for 2019.From Megan Rapinoe's iconic pose at the World Cup to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern donning a hijab following terrorist attacks in...
View ArticleEach year, the US gets around 4 times as many twisters as the rest of the...
Over 1,200 tornadoes strike American soil each year. That's four times as many twisters as the rest of the world combined. The US has more tornadoes than anywhere else in the world because the Great...
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The latest UN climate conference by the numbers: $100 million, 27,000...
The United Nations' COP25 climate conference concluded in Madrid, Spain on Sunday.The 2-week-long conference yielded very few tangible outcomes related to addressing climate change.Here's what to know...
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In attempting to kill its rodent population, New York may be unintentionally...
Major cities like New York struggle with rodent infestations in parks, subways, and city streets.Rats can transmit disease, damage city infrastructure, and harass residents. New York City officials use...
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New York City just got hit by a 'snow squall.' Here's what that really means...
The National Weather Service issued a "snow-squall" warning in New York City and parts of Connecticut and New Jersey on Wednesday afternoon.A snow squall is a short, intense burst of snowfall that...
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