Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. What if we stopped cutting down forests to produce palm oil and cattle? What if we grew new forests on vacant city lots, old industrial buildings — even golf courses? For the first time, scientists have sought to quantify this […]
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Fans of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” can expect future iterations of the science fiction horror series to cut back on the nicotine. A survey by the anti-tobacco use group Truth Initiative released Tuesday found “Stranger Things” to be one of television’s worst offenders when it comes to depicting smoking on-screen. Titled “While You Were Streaming: Smoking On Demand,”
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Image copyright Menelaos Myrillas Image caption Greek entrepreneurs Dimitris Kokkinakis and Sophie Lamprou say they are unsure of the future, but will continue with their business regardless Setting up a business in a country that is struggling to recover from a severe economic crisis is hardly the most ideal of circumstances. So Greek entrepreneurs Dimitris
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The Latest on Southern California’s strongest earthquake in 20 years (all times local): 1:20 p.m. The city of Los Angeles is planning to reduce the threshold for public notifications by its earthquake early warning app, but officials say it was in the works before Southern California’s big earthquake Thursday. The ShakeAlert LA app was designed
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Midfielder Lindsey Horan hopes the attention on women’s soccer and the United States’ run at the World Cup boost the professional league back home. The National Women’s Soccer League is in the midst of its seventh season and has been more successful than any other attempt at a pro women’s league in the United States.
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President Trump said Friday that the White House was writing an executive order to require pharmaceutical companies to offer the United States government among the lowest prices in the world, in comments that were not immediately clear to many experts on the country’s health care system. “We’re working on a favored-nation clause, where we pay
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption There have been two films of Spongebob Squarepants and more than 200 TV episodes A fan has claimed Nickelodeon used his SpongeBob SquarePants artwork without his permission. Matt Salvador, 17, says the art was featured in an advert for the show which was aired in June. His artwork, uploaded
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Image copyright Getty Images “There’s no guarantee that Amazon.com can be a successful company. What we’re trying to do is very complicated,” said Jeff Bezos in 1999, just five years after launching the online firm. That the firm’s founder was so uncertain of its future seems surprising. Today, 25 years on from when it started,
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FRANKFURT — Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen are expected to sign an agreement as soon as next week to share the cost of developing autonomous vehicles and producing electric cars, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The agreement, likely to be approved by Volkswagen’s supervisory board on Thursday, would deepen an existing
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Hunter Pence was being wished well in retirement last year, even by the manager for whom the outfielder played in two World Series. Mike Minor didn’t pitch in the majors for two seasons and then was a full-time reliever before the chance to start again. Pence and Minor are now headed to the All-Star Game
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