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Dorian insured damages in Caribbean as much as $6.5 bn
Hurricane Dorian, which lashed the Bahamas with devastating winds and surges of water, likely caused between…
Hundreds of schools shut as forest-fire haze blankets SE Asia
Huge fires are raging across vast swathes of Indonesia’s rainforests—some of the world’s biggest—with toxic smog…
'Herculean' efforts save homes as Australia fires rage
Massive bushfires across eastern Australia could be blazing for weeks, authorities warned Tuesday, as firefighters launched…
India locates missing Moon lander
Indian space scientists were desperately trying Tuesday to establish communication with their broken Moon lander, having…
Plastics, fuels and chemical feedstocks from CO2? They're working on it
One way to reduce the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is now at…
Ash tree species likely will survive emerald ash borer beetles, but just barely
“Lingering ash.” That’s what the U.S. Forest Service calls the relatively few green and white ash…
Stretchy plastic electrolytes could enable new lithium-ion battery design
The growing popularity of lithium-ion batteries in recent years has put a strain on the world’s…
Buzzkill? Male honeybees inject queens with blinding toxins during sex
They say love is blind, but if you’re a queen honeybee it could mean true loss…
Bulgaria, Romania struggle with swine fever outbreaks
When Vanya Dimitrova received the Bulgarian veterinary services’ notice to kill her pigs because of African…