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High tech glove stymies Parkinson’s disease tremors

Roberta Wilson-Garrett looked at the glove keeping her right hand steady and smiled.
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Technology

After 50 years, US to return to Moon on January 25

More than 50 years after the last Apollo mission, the United States will try once again to land a craft on the Moon on January 25, said the head of what could be the first private company to successfully…

Sustainability at centre of British polar science strategy

With research stations shifting to renewable energy and artificial intelligence mapping out fuel-efficient marine routes, the British Antarctic Survey is putting sustainability at the heart of its new…
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Global Warming.

ExxonMobil dismissed own global warming forecast: study

ExxonMobil publicly downplayed climate change even though scientists for the oil giant had accurately predicted global warming from fossil fuels as far back as the late 1970s, according to a study published…
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Global Warming. Renewable Energy.

France pushes forward with plan to speed up renewables

French MPs on Tuesday moved ahead with a law to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy, as the country’s nuclear plants suffer a maintenance crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drives up energy…
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Climate Change Global Warming.

Climate change: High temperatures, sparse snowfall in Europe’s Alps worries ski industry

Much of the Alps does not look right for this time of year following unseasonably warm winter weather in Europe, including record high January temperatures in Switzerland. The sparse snowfall has seen…
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Climate Change Global Warming.

DR Congo leader blames climate change for devastating floods

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo joined the United States on Tuesday in blaming climate change for major floods that have claimed around 100 lives in the capital Kinshasa.
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Climate Change Global Warming.

Climate change set to ‘increase hunger’ in Africa: UN

As COP27 delegates in Egypt debate planet-heating emissions, the climate crisis is exacerbating devastating hunger across several African nations and will worsen further without urgent action, the UN…