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A new bulletin from the World Meteorological Organization reports that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere…
French wine lovers have always taken their soil very seriously. But now the country’s government has introduced fresh…
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You might think early movies got called “flickers” and then “flicks” because they flicked through a series of images.…
New high-resolution maps of international woodland reveal that the world lost 18 million hectares of forest—the same…
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