Papua New Guinea officials have sealed off the area around a Chinese-owned nickel plant in the…
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Brazil bans burning for two months to defuse Amazon crisis
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Wednesday to ban burning throughout the country for two…
HMS Terror shipwreck offers up secrets of lost Arctic expedition
Almost two centuries after descending to its watery grave, the HMS Terror could offer up new…
Marriott hotels ditching small plastic toiletry bottles
Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain, said Wednesday it was ditching single-use toiletry bottles as…
Hurricane heads for Florida after brushing Caribbean islands
Hurricane Dorian moved out over open waters early Thursday after doing limited damage in Puerto Rico…
Corps official: Study needed of Missouri River flood options
An official with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday a study is needed to…
Bolivia lost 1.2 mn hectares to fires this year, govt says
Fires have destroyed 1.2 million hectares (3.2 million acres) of forest and grasslands in Bolivia this…
'Mental rigidity' at root of intense political partisanship on both left and right
People who identify more intensely with a political tribe or ideology share an underlying psychological trait:…
Ancient die-off greater than the dinosaur extinction
Clues from Canadian rocks formed billions of year ago reveal a previously unknown loss of life…
Much fridge food 'goes there to die'
Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect they will, food waste that is…