After months of negotiations in the House culminated in a bipartisan deal on a Jan. 6…
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Senate advances a rare bipartisan deal on countering China
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the bill a “once-in-a-generation investment in American science and American…
A dream of belonging: for Indigenous Australians the fabled ‘outback’ is home | Alexis Wright
My childhood was spent in Cloncurry, a small town in north-western Queensland once known and locally…
Greenland ice sheet on brink of major tipping point, says study
Scientists say ice equivalent to 1-2 metres of sea level rise is probably already doomed to…
Gaetz associate pleads guilty to 6 federal crimes, including sex trafficking a teen
Joel Greenberg, a former Seminole County, Fla., tax collector, pleaded guilty to six criminal counts in…
How we talk about the climate crisis is increasingly crucial to tackling it | Susanna Rustin
Our emotional register – how ‘doomy’ or ‘hopeful’ we are – will inevitably shape the policies…
How Dems learned to stop worrying (mostly) and embrace tax hikes
President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are taking a big gamble: that raising taxes can be…
Sharks use Earth’s magnetic field as ‘GPS’ guidance system, study says
Florida scientists use juvenile bonnetheads for research Authors say findings applicable to other ocean-going sharks Scientists…
‘Catastrophic’: Sierra Leone sells rainforest for Chinese harbour
Controversial deal with China would be ‘disastrous’ for fishing and protected rainforest, say opponents A $55m…
UK plastics sent for recycling in Turkey dumped and burned, Greenpeace finds
Investigation reveals that ‘plastic waste coming from the UK to Turkey is an environmental threat, not…