E-mailed comments from top climate scientist Kevin Trenberth on today’s Muir Russell report, which…

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In the Gulf of Mexico, oil has fouled a key habitat of one of…

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The onset of large-scale agriculture caused an upswing in desert dust across the region

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The tiny, oil-rich West African nation of Equatorial Guinea will host a new center…

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An e-mail today on the Russell report from John Christy, a respected climate scientist…

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The agribusiness giant Monsanto was rebuffed in a ruling handed down yesterday by the…

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Although today’s Russell report was mostly positive in its dismissal of allegations against climate…

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Building block of nuclear matter may be 4% smaller in radius than previously thought

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Researchers uncover earliest evidence of humans living above 45° latitude

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How a pregnant body tolerates a fetus that is biologically distinct from its mother has long been a mystery. Now, a pair of scientists have shown that females actively produce a particular type of immune cell in response to specific fetal antigens — immune-stimulating proteins — and that this response allows pregnancy to continue without [...]

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