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Oil giant Total's chief announces new unit to invest in forests
The head of French energy giant Total announced Saturday that the company would invest a hundred…
In Yakutia, Russia digs for diamonds in permafrost
Diamonds are forever, and so is the permanently frozen ground of Yakutia in north eastern Siberia,…
The Dugong Show: 24-hour webcast shows star Thai sea cows
A round-the-clock webcast starring two beloved baby dugongs in Thailand named Mariam and Jamil went live…
Electric scooters: not so eco-friendly after all?
E-scooters touted as zero-carbon urban transport are flooding city streets worldwide, but just how green they…
Southern California reels from magnitude 7.1 quake
A quake with a magnitude of 7.1 jolted much of California, cracking buildings, setting fires, breaking…
Amazon's Bezos finalizes divorce with $38 bn settlement: report
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos finalized their divorce Friday to the tune of a…
A deadly fungus is killing millions of bats in the U.S. Now it's in California
A mysterious fungus that has killed millions of bats in the eastern United States and left…
Tech jobs soar to all-time record heights in Bay Area
The Bay Area’s technology boom is so robust that it has reached record highs, but the…
July 4th earthquake won't delay the Big One. And it might have worsened quake strain
Does a good-size earthquake help relieve pent-up seismic stress? Does that postpone the day of reckoning…