Earth's drylands expand, affecting billions as climate warms
As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three ...
Stanford Scientists Just Found a Missing Piece in Antarctica’s Ice Puzzle
Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...
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70% Of Our Planet Is Ocean, But We’ve Mapped Only 6% Of Its Floor. A New Project Aims To Map The Entire Ocean By 2030.
With just a few clicks of a mousepad you can journey from your home to Uluru in Australia, the Colosseum in Rome, New York’s ...
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Towns in France and Belgium have been giving out free chickens for years to combat food waste – could the idea catch on elsewhere? In 2019, climate scientist Steffen Olsen took a startling photo ...
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Land Value Tax: What It Is and How It Works
A land value tax (LVT) is a method of taxing property based solely on the value of the land itself, excluding any buildings or improvements on the property. A land value tax is a more ...
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Adult Swim’s ‘Oh My God ... Yes!’ imagines a group of besties in futuristic South L.A.
Set in South L.A. somewhere in the not too near future, “Oh My God ... Yes!” — subtitled not without reason “A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances” — is the devilish Afro ...
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Space Force's mysterious X-37B plane returns to Earth after 434 days in orbit
The United States Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane touched down to earth on Friday after spending 434 days in orbit conducting mysterious tests. The unmanned Boeing-made aircraft landed ...
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Commissioners invest in future of agricultural, natural lands
The Lee County commissioners made a landmark investment in the future of local agriculture and working lands at their Monday meeting. They voted to adopt a new conservation easement policy ...
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McFeely: Letter confirms 'tribal gaming' plans for $4 million White Earth land buy east of Moorhead
MOORHEAD — The White Earth Band of Ojibwe ... what might happen with the land, the Clay County board thought it would be a good idea to invite the tribe to a future board meeting to discuss ...
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Republicans Aim to Generate Support for Selling Off America’s Public Lands
The new House rules package, adopted in early January, resurrected the very provision that led to Chaffetz’s unpopular bill, once again teeing up future transfer and sale of federal lands.
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Paul W.S. Anderson on Bringing George R.R. Martin’s ‘In the Lost Lands’ to Life and How to Make a Blue Screen Film That Actually Looks Good
But a medieval story of knaves and nymphs had eluded him until his new feature “In the Lost Lands,” an adaptation ... Although it’s set in the future, society has really fallen back into ...
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Rantanen dealt to Dallas, lands 8-year contract; Panthers add Marchand at NHL trade deadline
Mikko Rantanen went back West — but with the Dallas Stars this time following a brief stint in Carolina. And Bruins captain Brad Marchand is leaving Boston after 16 seasons to join the defending ...