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A pond in Hawaii has turned so bubble-gum pink it could be from the set of “Barbie,” but the bizarre phenomenon is no cause for a dance party. Drought may be to blame for the strange hue, scientists say, and they’re warning against entering the water or drinking it. Staff at the Kealia Pond National
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A female shark gave birth to a pup at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois this year – despite the baby having no father. The female epaulette shark was never housed with a male shark but produced a fertile egg without the need for a male, the zoo said in a news release. The baby was
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Starfish are known for their adorable and symmetrical arms that seem to hug everything they touch. But it turns out that they may not be hugs after all – because starfish, researchers found, are basically “just a head.” Having radially symmetrical arms is an iconic trait of starfish, but in new research published in the
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As 2023 creeps closer to its end, new climate data shows that the global average temperature is already the highest ever recorded – and that the year is “virtually certain” to be the hottest in observational history. The data, compiled by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, shows that from January to October, average
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Cheetahs are usually daytime hunters, but the speedy big cats will shift their activity toward dawn and dusk hours during warmer weather, a new study finds. Unfortunately for endangered cheetahs, that sets them up for more potential conflicts with mostly nocturnal competing predators such as lions and leopards, say the authors of research published Wednesday
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New Delhi — Schools in the Indian capital have been ordered to close and vehicle use will be restricted from next week in a bid to curb toxic air pollution that has left Delhi blanketed in a thick layer of smog. The local government in the Delhi capital region has ordered all primary schools to remain
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Earthshot Prize finalist cracks code on recycling poly-cotton clothing – CBS News Watch CBS News One of the finalists in the running for the Earthshot grand prize of $1.2 million is an innovation that can process the hardest types of “fast fashion” to recycle — poly-cotton blended garments. CBS News senior national and environmental correspondent
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What generally happens when clothes go out of style is giving the fashion industry a bad look. “The fashion and textile industry is one of the most wasteful industries in the world,” said Conor Hartman, chief operating officer of Circ, a climate tech startup trying to refashion the clothing industry. “The world is producing more
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Halloween may be over, but that doesn’t mean that scary-looking spiders are done for the year. A large yellow spider known as the Joro spider that’s been found in several states is expected to continue spreading along the East Coast, according to a scientist at Clemson University. The spiders are sometimes called parachuting spiders because
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Astronomers studying the agency’s retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven “scorching” planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, NASA said Thursday. NASA described the newly-found planets as “sweltering” and “bathed” in radiant heat emitted by the host star that was described as “sun-like.” That star
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