Improving soil health in farmlands could capture extra carbon equivalent to the planet-warming emissions generated by the transport sector, one of the world’s most polluting industries, experts said Tuesday. Soil …
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UN: Syria Formally Joins Paris Climate Agreement
Syria has formally joined the 2015 Paris deal aimed at slowing climate change, the United Nations said on Tuesday, leaving the United States as the only country opposed to the …
your ads here!Space Delivery: Astronauts Get Ice Cream, Make-own Pizzas
Astronauts got a mouth-watering haul with Tuesday’s Earth-to-space delivery — pizza and ice cream. A commercial supply ship arrived at the International Space Station two days after launching from Virginia. …
your ads here!Rise in Teen Suicide, Social Media Coincide; Is There Link?
An increase in suicide rates among U.S. teens occurred at the same time social media use surged and a new analysis suggests there may be a link. Suicide rates for …
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug in the United States with a digital ingestion tracking system, in an unprecedented move to ensure that patients with mental …
your ads here!Tough Critter May Hold Clues to Fighting Cancer
The naked mole rat is a unique animal, and to most people one ugly little creature. These rodents live most of their life underground and are nearly blind. But what …
your ads here!Citizen Scientists Gather Data on Dead Seabirds
Hundreds of volunteers are patrolling beaches on the West Coast of the United States to monitor the number of dead birds that wash ashore. The multi-state monitoring program helps tell …
your ads here!Study: Harvey’s ‘Biblical’ Rainfall Getting More Likely
The chances of a hurricane flooding parts of Texas, like Harvey did, have soared sixfold in just 25 years because of global warming and will likely triple once again before …
your ads here!Drinking Age: Oldest Evidence of Winemaking Found Near Tbilisi
Oenophiles take note: 5980 BC was a very good year for wine. Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of the oldest-known evidence for winemaking, detecting telltale chemical signs of the …
your ads here!Cost of Diabetes Epidemic Reaches $850 Billion a Year
The number of people living with diabetes has tripled since 2000, pushing the global cost of the disease to $850 billion a year, medical experts said Tuesday. The majority of …
your ads here!US Participating in COP-23, Despite Rejection of Paris Climate Deal
The United States is participating in the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP-23) of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, despite President Donald Trump’s announcement it will be leaving …
your ads here!Pakistan, Afghanistan Report Historic Dip in Polio Cases
Afghanistan and Pakistan officially are now the only two nations across the globe to have reported wild polio virus cases so far this year, though the numbers of cases have …
your ads here!Poor Regions of Uganda Feeling the Heat of Climate Change
While climate change is being discussed this week in Germany, it’s being felt by farmers and ranchers around the world. But it’s hitting subsistence farmers in places like Uganda particularly …
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Standing in a stately Mayo Clinic library, Lilly Ross reached out and touched the face of a stranger, prodding the rosy cheeks and eyeing the hairless gap in a chin …
your ads here!Californian, Who Identifies as Non-binary: ‘I Am Who I Am’
Thanks to a new law, California residents who do not identify as either male or female can choose a third option on their driver’s licenses and birth certificates. VOA’s Genia …
your ads here!Legionnaires Sickens 12 in California, Including 9 at Disneyland
Disneyland has shut down and decontaminated two cooling towers following an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that sickened 12 people, nine of them guests or employees at the theme park in …
your ads here!Tanzanian Cholera Outbreak Kills 18, Health Ministry Says
An outbreak of cholera in Tanzania has left 18 dead in two months, the Health Ministry said Saturday, warning that the situation could worsen as the rainy season continues. The …
your ads here!Pneumonic Plague in Madagascar Continues to Decline
Pneumonic plague continues to decline in Madagascar, according to the World Health Organization, whose latest figures put the number of suspected cases at 1,947, including 143 deaths. The latest reported …
your ads here!US to Ban Illicit Versions of Synthetic Opioid
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration plans to ban all illicit versions of fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid painkiller responsible for tens of thousands of deadly drug overdoses in the United …
your ads here!Six African Countries to Benefit from Discounted Cancer Drugs
The cancer caseload is growing in Africa, but quality treatment options remain limited. By 2030, WHO estimates that for every four deaths from HIV/AIDS on the continent, there will be three …
your ads here!40,000 Rohingya Children Face Malnutrition, Need Life-Saving Aid
Rohingya children in Myanmar and Bangladesh face a tenfold increase in malnutrition compared to last year and require immediate attention, the International Rescue Committee said in a statement Friday. A …
your ads here!Stellar Encore: Dying Star Keeps Coming Back Big Time
Death definitely becomes this star. Astronomers reported Wednesday on a massive, distant star that exploded in 2014 — and also, apparently back in 1954. This is one supernova that refuses …
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