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Remnants of Sprawling Ancient Cities Are Found in the Amazon

The Amazon valley looked like so many others, with a muddy river snaking through dense forest, except that this one had earthen mounds rising at clear right angles and ditches carving long straight lines through the soil. In this rainforest, archaeologists say, lay the bones of sprawling ancient cities: earthworks that were once roads, canals,

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Watch Live: Doomsday clock time announcement of how close we are to global catastrophe in 2024

CBS News Live 3 Live The Doomsday clock is being updated Tuesday morning in the latest iteration of a decades-old international symbol meant to illustrate how close humanity is to reaching “global catastrophe” as of January 2024.  This year’s figurative clock is being unveiled during an announcement by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a

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Largest deep-sea coral reef mapped off East Coast: ‘Breathtaking in scale’

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To Slash Carbon Emissions, Colleges Are Digging Really Deep

When administrators at Princeton University decided to cut the carbon emissions that came from heating and cooling their campus, they opted for a method that is gaining popularity among colleges and universities. They began drilling holes deep into the ground. The university is using the earth beneath its campus to create a new system that

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Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory

Arno A. Penzias, whose astronomical probes yielded incontrovertible evidence of a dynamic, evolving universe with a clear point of origin, confirming what became known as the Big Bang theory, died on Monday in San Francisco. He was 90. His death, in an assisted living facility, was caused by complications of Alzheimer’s disease, his son, David,

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Video: Why I’m Voting: A Fisherman Urges Republicans to Confront Climate Change

“Politically, I’m a realist. I mean, I’m a conservative at heart. Less government is always better. That’s kind of the New Hampshire way. I’m a charter boat fisherman. I’m pretty active in the commercial fishing business here. I do a little bit of cod and haddock fishing, but primarily striped bass. Yeah, bring them up,

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A ‘Revolutionary’ Way to Feed the World That’s Very Old

“There are some interesting hints or nods in the right direction: the focus on crop diversity and nutrition, Indigenous knowledge, a focus on neglected crops,” said Bill Moseley, a professor at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., who has worked on agriculture programs with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank. “What’s

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