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Headed for a sixth mass extinction? MIT geophysicist warns oceans are on the brink
Ecology
December 16, 2021
Headed for a sixth mass extinction? MIT geophysicist warns oceans are on the brink
Earth’s skin already bears the scars of the climate crisis. Fires ravage forests, hurricanes swamp coastlines, floods drown city blocks…
Have astronomers just discovered the first exoplanet outside our galaxy?
Tech
October 28, 2021
Have astronomers just discovered the first exoplanet outside our galaxy?
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may have spotted the first exoplanet outside our Milky Way galaxy. Located in Messier 51 (M51),…
Newborn survival rates in U.S. nearly same as Sri Lanka or Ukraine, UNICEF says
Ukraine
February 22, 2018
Newborn survival rates in U.S. nearly same as Sri Lanka or Ukraine, UNICEF says
Five newborn babies die every minute on Earth, an “alarmingly high” statistic as up to 80 percent of them are…