Hours after savoring that perfectly grilled steak on a beautiful summer evening, your body turns traitor, declaring war on the very meal you just enjoyed. You begin to feel excruciating itchiness, pain or even swelling that can escalate to…
Category: 9. Environment
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EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won’t stop the shift to electric vehicles, but will make it harder, slower and more expensive
The U.S. government is in full retreat from its efforts to make vehicles more fuel-efficient, which it has been waging, along with state governments, since the 1970s.
The latest move came on July 29, 2025, when the Environmental Protection…
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Jayantha Jayewardene, Sri Lanka’s elephant advocate, died July 30, aged 81
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
Few men have stood so squarely in the…
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Study links long-term exposure to air pollution with increased dementia risk
More than a year of exposure to certain air pollutants is associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to a recently published study.
Dementia, a group of diseases…
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New list of primates in peril aims to focus attention and inspire action
- A new list of the 25 most threatened primates has been published by the International Primatological Society, which held its 30th congress in Madagascar in July.
- More than 40% of primate species are classed as…
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Effects of early-age feed restriction and thermal conditioning on the physiological and performance responses of broiler chickens under heat stress
Alhotan, R. A., Sulaiman, A., Alharthi, A. R., Abudabos, A. M. & A. S. & Protective influence of betaine on intestinal health by regulating inflammation and improving barrier function in broilers under heat stress. Poult. Sci. 100(9), 101337.
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Short-term rainfall prediction based on radar echo using an efficient spatio-temporal recurrent unit
Implementation details
Models in the experiment were trained on 2 Tesla P100 GPUs, each with 16 GB of video memory. The CPU is a high-performance configuration that supports multi-task parallel processing. The operating system is Ubuntu. The…
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Efforts to revive India’s disappearing endangered star anise
The Himalayan star anise is a key source of livelihood for India’s Indigenous Monpa community. But the tree that bears the star anise fruit has greatly declined in number after…
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Guinea iron ore megaproject pollutes waterways & farmland, communities say
Mining activities at Guinea’s Simandou iron ore megaproject are polluting waterways and degrading agricultural land, according to community representatives and advocates who spoke…
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In Ecuador, environmentalists worry Noboa is unwinding nation’s green reputation
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Recent moves in Ecuador have environmental interests concerned that the South American nation is unwinding some of the basis for its green reputation….
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