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The number of people at risk of contracting an agonising eye disease has fallen dramatically, with experts hoping it could soon be eliminated. According to new figures released by the World Health Organization the number of people at risk of blinding...
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(Bloomberg) -- Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next.Several Huawei Technologies Co. employees have collaborated on research projects with Chinese armed forces personnel, indicating closer...
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Candidates made no mention of a Green New Deal but talked green industrial plans, carbon pricing and hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.
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Ten Democrats kicked off the presidential debate season with a sober rendering of policy that featured a smattering of missteps on climate change, the economy and more but no whoppers. JAY INSLEE, Washington's governor: "We are the first generation...
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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- If you’re in the business of selling passenger aircraft, design flaws that might cause your planes to crash ought to be non-existent.That’s why the discovery of a second critical safety risk on Boeing Co.’s 737 Max is so alarmi...
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(Bloomberg) -- Europeans fought to stay cool as a blast of hot air from the Sahara desert sent temperatures to records in large parts of the continent and whipped up concern about climate change.Germany imposed speed restrictions on usually limit-fre...
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Vaccination against the virus that causes almost all cervical cancer is having a major impact on stopping infections and should significantly reduce cases of the disease within a decade, researchers said on Wednesday. Presenting results of an intern...
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Selfies, which have become a global sensation in the last decade or so, have remarkably killed five times more people than shark attacks. Between October 2011 and November 2017, at least 259 people died taking selfies around the globe, according to...
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BELLEVUE, Wash. — Underground lava tubes are great places to set up bases on the moon, or look for life on Mars — but they'll be super-tricky to navigate. Which is why a NASA team is practicing with a cave rover in California. Scientists are shar...
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Thousands of endangered sharks are killed each year in the North Atlantic due to a lack of protection against overfishing in international waters, Greenpeace said Thursday. Fishing vessels dedicated primarily to catching swordfish in the area collec...
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The divide in Oregon between the state's liberal cities and its conservative and economically depressed rural areas has made it fertile ground for the political crisis unfolding over a push by Democrats to enact sweeping climate legislation. Eleven...
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It's only natural to want to soak up the sun, but if you find that your skin gets red and irritated despite applying sunscreen, you may need to talk to your doctor. The most common cause is the most obvious: heat rash, also known as milaria.
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An organization that searches for the remains of U.S. servicemen lost in past conflicts has found what officials believe are the graves of more than 30 Marines and sailors killed in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. A team working on the...
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More money, more problems? In some ways, we believe it. For common people on a budget, no long-lost family members have the audacity to come asking for cash. But it’s easy to poke a few glaring holes in the theory, and one of them is how the well-to-...