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The Amazon rainforest is teetering on the precipice of a dangerous tipping point, new research warns. It’s gradually losing its ability to bounce back after disturbances like droughts or other extreme weather events. With enough time and forest losses, scientists say, large swaths of the Amazon could fall into an unstoppable spiral that would transform … Read more
More than three-quarters of the world’s largest rainforest has become less resilient to drought since the early 2000s, with areas near humans and with lower rainfall being the worst hit Environment 7 March 2022 By Adam Vaughan An area deforested for gold mining, along the Interoceanic highway linking Peru and Brazil in the Amazon region … Read more
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage around the world, another disease could be on its way out. Only 14 cases of infection with Guinea worm—a parasite that causes painful skin lesions—were reported in humans in 2021. This is the lowest tally ever for an infection that, as recently as the 1980s, was found in … Read more
STARBASE, Boca Chica, TX — “It is hard to believe it is real, except, you know… it is right there.” Elon Musk took to the stage here on Thursday night (Feb. 10) to deliver what his company, SpaceX, billed as an “update on the design, development and testing of Starship” — the “it” to which Musk was … Read more