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Trump’s Tariffs Give Lula a Rallying Cry Ahead of 2026 Vote
Yahoo Finance
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(Bloomberg) -- Brazil spent months flying under the radar as Donald Trump upended global trade. Now that it’s in the spotlight, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may stand to benefit from the attention. Most Read from Bloomberg Hours after the...
Opinion | Today Tuvalu, tomorrow the world
Witness
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July 9, 2025
Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last month’s big change saw the creation of the world’s first climate-change visas. It’s a way of giving potential climate refugees some...
Water and ice may reveal where rare earth elements are hiding
Earth.com
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We hear about minerals all the time. Lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and rare earth elements appear in the news almost every week. These minerals power phones, electric cars, and military equipment. Countries want them, companies want them, and...
Paris Goal of 1.5°C Warming Is Still Too Hot for Polar Ice Sheets, Study Warns
The Good Men Project - California
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July 9, 2025
By Bobby Bascomb At the landmark Paris climate agreement, nearly every country in the world pledged to a goal to limit warming to well below 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels by 2100, and work toward a more ambitious goal to...
Two Leading Narcissists Meet at the White House
CounterPunch
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July 10, 2025
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Narcissism is a personality trait characterized by an excessive preoccupation with oneself, a sense of entitlement, and a need for admiration. It involves an inflated sense of self-importance, a...
Expert calls out misleading chart shared by Jordan Peterson: 'False conclusions'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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July 8, 2025
After right-wing author and media personality Jordan Peterson shared a chart on X suggesting current rising global temperatures are part of a centuries-old natural climate cycle, content creator and climate advocate Aaron Hagey-Mackay felt a...
Finnish President Alexander Stubb spoke to CBC News to talk Trump, the war in Ukraine and what it's like sharing a 1,300-kilometre border with Russia.
Yahoo News - Canada
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July 9, 2025
Finnish President Alexander Stubb spoke to CBC News to talk Trump, the war in Ukraine and what it's like sharing a 1,300-kilometre border with Russia. (Adrian Di Virgilio/CBC - image credit)Finnish President Alexander Stubb says he is pessimistic...
ANTARCTICA IS RAPIDLY GETTING SALTIER
New People
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ANTARCTICA IS RAPIDLY GETTING SALTIER Joe Smith July 07, 2025 The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015, the frozen continent has lost sea ice similar to the size...
The Southern Ocean Is Getting Saltier
Technology Networks
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Researchers have discovered a dramatic and unexpected shift in the Southern Ocean, with surface water salinity rising and sea ice in steep decline. Since 2015, Antarctica has lost sea ice equal to the size of Greenland — the largest environmental...
Arctic Ocean stayed partly open during harsh ice ages
Earth.com
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The Arctic has always seemed like the perfect place to hide secrets. Thick ice, biting winds, and months of darkness. For years, people believed that during the coldest ice ages, the Arctic Ocean vanished beneath an enormous ice shelf, one as...
UK Brothers to Summit Baffin Island's Mount Asgard, Honoring Grandfather’s Legacy
Explorersweb
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July 9, 2025
British adventurers Niall McCann and Finn McCann are on their way to climb Mount Asgard, the 2,015m twin-peaked granite tower in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island. It’s a family affair: They want to climb the peak that their grandfather,...
The Engineering Behind UgCS: Insights from Kristaps Brass on the Future of Drone Flight Planning
Dronelife - New Hampshire
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July 9, 2025
Kristaps Brass Drone technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and with it comes the need for more advanced, reliable, and user-friendly flight planning software. At the forefront of this innovation is UgCS, developed by SPH Engineering. To gain a...
Island Games: Everything you need to know about Orkney 2025
BBC
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ShareSave Orkney is hosting the 20th edition of the biennial Island Games The Island Games will be taking over Orkney this week, with thousands of visitors from around the world expected to descend on the Scottish archipelago. An estimated 2,000...
Melting glaciers release methane
Sciworthy
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July 3, 2025
From rising sea levels to melting glaciers, scientists constantly monitor climatic changes to better prepare for their impacts. But Earth’s atmosphere is warming faster than climatologists predicted. The Arctic, in particular, was predicted to...
Co-op Bank partners with KTDA to unlock Ksh.1.2B for smallholder tea farmers
Citizen TV Kenya
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July 9, 2025
The Co-operative Bank of Kenya has deepened its support for the tea sector by partnering with the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) to provide over 260,000 smallholder farmers with access to Ksh.1.2 billion in mobile-enabled credit solutions....
Melting Glaciers Could Set Off Volcanoes in Chain Reaction, Scientists Sound Chilling Alarm
News18
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July 8, 2025
Last Updated:July 08, 2025, 18:32 IST Ice cover delays volcanic eruptions, allowing magma to build up heat and pressure underground. When released, this leads to far more powerful and destructive explosions The most significant threat comes from...
Trump’s New Favorite General
The Atlantic
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July 8, 2025
The moment was quickly overshadowed by other events—first an airline disaster in India, then the outbreak of war between Israel and Iran—but it was nevertheless noteworthy. On June 11, General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,...
The end of humanity
The Hindu
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July 9, 2025
A recent poll conducted in 24 countries by the Pew Research Center reveals that Israel is very unpopular in most of these countries. The main exception is India, where just 29% of the respondents had an “unfavourable” view of Israel. A slightly...
Dispatch from Svalbard: Tensions are simmering in the High North
Atlantic Council
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July 9, 2025
SVALBARD, NORWAY—Even in summer, the air is clear and cold in Longyearbyen, the world’s northernmost inhabited town, which is located above the Arctic Circle in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. The message from officials we recently spoke with there...
Fossils were from Canadian Arctic and Kenyan rift valley
GEO TV
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July 9, 2025
Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back about two million years. Proteins, a cell's molecular machinery,...