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REPHRASED: A GLIMPSE INTO THE CLIMATE: Severe weather conditions such as fires in Chile, heavy rains in California, and drought in Spain are causing widespread suffering.

On Monday, Camila Lange, who is currently seven months pregnant, sat with her husband and dog in their former home in Vina del Mar, Chile. In the central coastal region of the country, hundreds of houses have been demolished due to fires that have resulted in the deaths of at least 112 individuals. Extreme weather

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Researchers are making progress in their efforts to construct a massive atom-smasher that is expected to be operational by 2040.

The scientists at the biggest particle collider in the world, located in Geneva, stated their belief on Monday in proceeding with a multi-billion euro venture to construct a larger and more advanced collider that could potentially reveal new secrets of the universe. Officials from CERN, the European research organization for nuclear physics, have announced that

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Scientists have found evidence from ocean sponges that suggests the Earth has been warming for a longer period of time than previously thought. However, some scientists are skeptical of this evidence.

Several ancient sponges, dating back centuries and found deep in the Caribbean, have prompted some researchers to consider the possibility that human-induced climate change began earlier and has had a greater impact on global warming than previously believed. They calculate that the world has already gone past the internationally approved target of limiting global warming

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A recent study discovered that low-income and nonwhite communities are disproportionately affected by extreme heat and wildfire smoke.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Extreme heat and wildfire smoke are independently harmful to the human body, but together their impact on cardiovascular and respiratory systems is more dangerous and affects some communities more than others. A report released on Friday in the journal Science Advances stated that the occurrence of extreme heat and exposure to

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The citizens are requesting a thorough inspection of the destruction to a Japanese nuclear facility resulting from a recent earthquake.

A petition has been submitted by residents of towns near nuclear plants in Japan, requesting that regulators pause safety evaluations for restarting reactors. This is to allow for a thorough investigation into the damage sustained by a plant that experienced a loss of external power and released radioactive water during a recent earthquake. On January

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