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The psychoactive substance in magic mushrooms appears to have a powerful effect on people trying to stop smoking.
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Restoring Florida’s fragile Everglades can help stem the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and contributing to hotter temperatures, rising seas and more damaging storms in this particularly vulnerable state, new research has found. The research, published last month in the
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Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions
Climate breakdown is shrinking the amount of time that people can safely go about their lives, according to a study that shows a third of the world’s population now resides in areas w
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Plastics have a gigantic built-in problem: They’re tenacious, which is very good for a milk jug or a car bumper. But they don’t easily break down, which is bad for the environment. From the 1950s, when plastics were first produced in significant amounts, through 2017, the petrochemical industry chur
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Despite its widespread biodiversity, Australia holds an unenviable record when it comes to wildlife: the highest mammalian extinction rate in the world. Since the arrival of Europeans and colonial expansion, at least 40 terrestrial mammal species have been lost, and others are facing serious threats
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