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Climate change makes once-rare coastal floods more likely, study says. New research shows that extreme floods in coastal areas are becoming more common as climate change causes sea levels to rise.

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A flesh-eating cattle parasite is spreading in Texas as new far-flung screwworm cases are found. Two more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping the spread of a pest that potentially could devastate the nation???s cattle industry.

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Psychiatrist Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who championed needs of children, dies. Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died. His son, also named Robert Coles, says his father passed away at 97 at a hospice center in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on Thursday.

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Energy Department says advanced nuclear reactor first to reach critical milestone. The Energy Department says a small nuclear reactor under development at a national lab has reached a crucial milestone that could allow it to produce electricity in the next few years.

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Wildfires are making the US smoggy again, reversing progress on cleaner air, study finds. A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.

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In Iowa, water pollution is a health threat that also disrupts summer fun. Iowa???s waterways face significant pollution challenges due to agricultural runoff and sewage. The problem impacts both recreation and public health.

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Steven Spielberg on his faith in alien life, the future of the movies and the power of empathy. Steven Spielberg's ???Disclosure Day??? returns Hollywood???s preeminent big-screen craftsman to one of his most abiding questions: Are we alone?

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Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts. The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors funded by the National Science Foundation.

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2 scientists charged with bringing deactivated mpox virus into the US and lying to authorities. Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators.

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Blue Origin dice que explosi??n de cohete no da???? tanques de combustible ni la plataforma. CABO CA??AVERAL, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) ??? Blue Origin inform?? el martes que la explosi??n de su cohete la semana pasada no afect?? los tanques de combustible ni otras partes cr??ticas de la plataforma de lanzamiento.

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New York sues over the Trump administration's deal to end an offshore wind project. New York???s attorney general is suing the Trump administration over one of its deals to end an offshore wind project. French company TotalEnergies is getting $1 billion, essentially a refund of its leases for offshore wind projects off New York and North Carolina, if it invests the money in fossil fu

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Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and key launch pad parts. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin says last week's rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and some other critical parts of the launch pad.

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Hawaii's Kilauea sets record for lava fountaining episodes in any 1 eruption for the volcano. Hawaii???s Kilauea has hit a record number of lava fountaining episode for any one eruption from the volcano.

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Meteor as heavy as an elephant causes widespread speculation across New England. NASA says a fireball as heavy as an elephant caused the double boom that rang out over New England. The agency said Monday, the meteor was about 5 feet wide and travelling at an estimated 42,000 mph when it entered Earth???s atmosphere.

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Wyoming???s ???Path of the Pronghorn??? is a signature away from protections sought for a quarter century. From afar, conservation biologist Joel Berger has tracked Wyoming???s long-lasting attempt to designate a migration corridor used by pronghorn that seasonally trek upwards of 150 miles from Interstate 80 all the way to Grand Teton National Park.

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Crude oil prices rise after latest US-Iran fighting, and US stocks slip. Oil prices are rising following the latest fighting to threaten the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, but Wall Street isn't very worried.

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Meteor over Massachusetts causes explosion reports, sightings from Delaware to Montreal. Officials with the American Meteor Society and NASA say a double boom heard in multiple states Saturday afternoon was a 3-foot meteor entering the atmosphere near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire border.

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Dead humpback whale brought to shore in Denmark with autopsy set next week. The carcass of a humpback whale has been dragged onto a Danish beach after two weeks of the body languishing in shallow waters.

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Releasing cool water protects fish in the Grand Canyon. That comes at cost to hydropower. Federal officials are considering cool water releases for the third consecutive year at Glen Canyon Dam in Northern Arizona this summer to safeguard the humpback chub, a federally protected fish.

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Parking lots get hot and are bad for storm runoff. These groups are testing other options. Cities and other groups around the U.S. are using alternatives to traditional asphalt lots in order beat the heat and curb water runoff ??? especially as climate change worsens.

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FACT FOCUS: Trump distorts recent revisions of scientific projections of global warming. President Donald Trump blasted the accuracy of scientists' global warming projections in a social media post that itself painted a distorted view of the science, projections and policy of climate change.

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Here's what to know about Timmy, the humpback whale whose life and death captivated Germany. The remains of Timmy the humpback whale whose life and death captivated Germany for months will be turned into biodiesel as some of the mammal???s bones are set to go to a Danish museum.

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