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Month: August 2022
Canada has a quarter of world’s soil carbon. Keeping it in the ground could curb climate change, experts say | CBC News
Canada stores about a quarter of all the soil carbon in the world, a new study has found, putting a spotlight on the country's role in preventing that carbon from being released into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming.
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Australia’s Massive Bushfires Spawned a Dramatic Heat Anomaly in The Stratosphere
Massive swathes of wilderness and the lives of billions of animals were extinguished into ash and smoke during Australia's Black Summer bushfires.
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Why there’s no ‘Dijon’ in Dijon mustard
France is facing a widespread dearth of Dijon mustard, which news outlets wasted no time in attributing to the war in Ukraine. But the story is a whole lot spicier than that.
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7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid
An earlier report on one of the bones of a 7-million-year-old creature that may have walked upright has triggered scientific misconduct charges.
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The world has never seen a heat wave quite like China’s 70-day streak
The event has affected well over 100 million people, and further disrupted global supply chains.
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Walrus Freya who became attraction in Norway’s Oslo Fjord put down
Freya had to be euthanised because the public went too close to her, officials said.
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Traffic congestion charge would boost air quality in New York City, study finds
Charge of up to $23 a day would reduce number of cars entering Manhattan by 15-20%, assessment says
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Why humans have more voice control than any other primates
Unlike all other studied primates, humans lack vocal membranes. That lets humans produce the sounds that language is built on, a new study suggests.
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Will Europe Force a Facebook Blackout?
Regulators are close to stopping Meta from sending EU data to the US, bringing a years-long privacy battle to a head.
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