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‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families

AOL 10 May 2024

why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair ... A study of Americans aged 27 to 45 – younger than the IPCC scientists surveyed – found concern about the wellbeing of children in a ...

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Scientists win World Food Prize for work on Global Seed Vault

The Advocate & Democrat 10 May 2024

Scientists Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler, who on Thursday received the prestigious World Food Prize for "their work to preserve the world's heritage of seeds", are on a mission ....

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Vietnamese students to compete at int’l science, engineering contest in US

Vietnam News 10 May 2024

Initiated in 1950, ISEF is the world's largest global science competition for high school students. Each year, it attracts about 1,500 students from over 70 countries and territories around the world who showcase their research results.

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Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference

ProPublica 10 May 2024

The world churns out 400 million metric tons of plastic a year ... These badges allowed them access to exclusive discussions not open to some of the world’s leading health scientists ... The world recognizes the importance of figuring this out.

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‘World’s largest vacuum’ sucks pollution out of air

Shenzhen Daily 10 May 2024

As the planet continues to heat up — with devastating consequences for humans and nature — many scientists say the world needs to find ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere in addition to rapidly cutting fossil fuels.

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Cybercriminals Exploiting New Industry Vulnerabilities 43% Faster than 1H 2023: Fortinet

Tahawultech 10 May 2024

It is composed of some of the industry’s most knowledgeable threat hunters, researchers, analysts, engineers, and data scientists in the industry, working in dedicated threat research labs all around the world.

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Children cool off and take a bath in the scorching heat in Jammu, India, 6 July 2021. Researchers predict migration will rise in India as extreme weather worsens due to climate change.

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From flooding in Brazil to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere

The Manila Times 09 May 2024

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‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns

The Guardian 09 May 2024

Top climate figures respond to Guardian survey of scientists who expect temperatures to soar, saying leaders must act radically Climate scientists expect global heating to ...

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I understand climate scientists' despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope | ...

The Guardian 09 May 2024

why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair • Christiana Figueres was the head of the UN climate change convention from 2010 to 2016 “Hopeless and broken”.

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Thursday briefing: What 400 scientists think about the future of our climate

AOL 09 May 2024

In yet another example of the world’s scientists trying to raise the alarm, Guardian environment editor Damian Carrington asked hundreds of them about their thoughts on the future of the planet – and their predictions are predictably harrowing.

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World is On Edge of Climate Abyss, UN Warns

Slashdot 09 May 2024

The world is ... The science is clear and so are the world's scientists ... He said world leaders needed to get on and deliver on the pledge they made to transition away from fossil fuels at Cop28 in December.

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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded ...

Grist 09 May 2024

As reefs around the world bleach at alarming rates, scientists are racing to study and preserve this remarkable coral reef in the unlikeliest of places ... There are many other histories scientists can see etched in this coral core.

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Google's DeepMind unveils next generation of drug discovery AI model

Gulf News 09 May 2024

The company also announced the release of the AlphaFold server , a free online tool that scientists can use to test their hypotheses before running real-world tests ... John Jumper, a senior research scientist at DeepMind, said.

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Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' In Whale Songs

Slashdot 09 May 2024

... 2020, a team of marine biologists and computer scientists joined forces to analyze the click-clacking songs of sperm whales, the gray, block-shaped leviathans that swim in most of the world's oceans.

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Putin claims there’s ‘nothing unusual’ about Russian nuclear weapons drill

New York Post 09 May 2024

Russia has about 1,558 non-strategic nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists ... Russia and the United States are by far the world’s biggest nuclear powers, holding more ...