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With a Friend in Trump, the Tobacco Industry Secures a Lucrative Win
Over lunch at his golf club in Jupiter, Fla., on the first Saturday of May, President Trump got an earful…
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5 Great Stargazing Trains – The New York Times
Stargazing, it turns out, doesn’t have to be a stationary activity. On railway lines around the world, from the Arctic…
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Lithuania’s Peat Bogs Could Help the Climate and Defend the Border, Too
In a scrubby forest an hour outside the Lithuanian capital on a recent day this spring, excavators were digging ditches…
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Wildfires Strike Florida, Georgia and America’s ‘Wood Basket’
Florida and Georgia are seeing an unusually severe and early start to a wildfire season that is shaping up to…
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Building Nests Is Hard. That’s Why Some Birds Steal.
When Mauna Loa erupted in 1885, it enveloped native forests on the island of Hawaii in a layer of basaltic…
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Emperor penguins in focus as Antarctica talks start in Japan
Greater protections for endangered emperor penguins and how to manage growing tourism are topping the agenda at talks on Antarctica…
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A Taxidermist Gives Dead Animals a New Life
At 11, Tim Bovard undertook his first taxidermy experiment on a piece of roadkill. He had found an unlucky skunk…
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Trump Nominates Cameron Hamilton to Lead FEMA
President Trump on Monday nominated Cameron Hamilton, a former Navy SEAL, as administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, seeking…
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Trump Administration to Scrap Rule Encouraging Conservation
The Trump administration on Monday said it would repeal a Biden-era rule that allowed public lands to be leased for…
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Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said little publicly about vaccines in recent months, at the behest of a…
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