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Indonesia is spending $33 billion to move its capital from a sinking city to...
Indonesia is relocating its capital city from Jakarta to East Kalimantan, a province on the island of Borneo. Jakarta is currently sinking by up to 6.7 inches per year, making it especially vulnerable...
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A new solar-power device can turn salt water into clean drinking water and...
Power plants need water to generate electricity, but electricity is also usually required to filter or desalinate water. This reciprocal relationship — known as the water-energy nexus — means that...
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A house made of plastic soda bottles can withstand winds twice as strong as a...
Hurricanes are becoming stronger and more devastating, generating a need for technologies to keep homes safe. A Canadian construction firm recently built a home made of plastic panels that it says can...
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Stunning images of the New York City skyline every year on 9/11
September 11, 2019 is the 18th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. The destruction of the Twin Towers left a glaring hole in the New York City skyline. Following the attacks, movies...
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Life-saving tips that could help in almost any natural disaster, from fires...
Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas and the southeastern US this month, killing at least 50 people in the Bahamas and leaving 76,000 homeless. Dorian was the fourth named storm in this Atlantic...
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Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke says 'hell yes' he will forcefully take...
The US has seen several of mass shootings in recent months, continuing debates about gun control. Some countries have figured out how to curb gun violence through targeted strategies. Efforts in...
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Democratic candidate Andrew Yang just promised to give 10 American families...
Andrew Yang announced Thursday that his campaign will give $10,000 over a year to ten American families selected via raffle. Elon Musk has endorsed serial entrepreneur Andrew Yang's run for Democratic...
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The massive plastic-cleaning device a 25-year-old invented is finally...
More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, and a lot of it accumulates in the oceans. At age 16, Dutch innovator Boyan Slat decided he wanted to tackle the problem. Slat...
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Haunting photos reveal what nuclear-disaster ghost towns look like years...
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 transformed the Ukrainian city of Pripyat into a ghost town. Other towns have also been abandoned after nuclear disasters, and each is a skeleton of its former...
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San Francisco's dirtiest street has an outdoor drug market, discarded heroin...
President Donald Trump said without any evidence that needles in San Francisco are flowing into the Pacific Ocean and attributed the problem to the city's homelessness crisis. City officials quickly...
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HBO's 'Chernobyl' series invented a main character to depict the world's...
HBO's series "Chernobyl" invented a main character to tell the story of the world's worst nuclear power plant accident, which took place in 1986. The miniseries earned 19 Emmy nominations, including...
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Real-life characters in HBO's 'Chernobyl' on the moment they found out about...
HBO's "Chernobyl" series tells the story of the world's worst nuclear-power-plant accident. The show is nominated for 19 Emmy awards, including in the Outstanding Limited Series category, in which...
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The former deputy director of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant says the...
The HBO miniseries "Chernobyl" won 10 Emmy awards on Sunday, including for Outstanding Limited Series. The miniseries mirrors the real-life events of the tragic 1986 nuclear disaster. But the former...
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HBO's 'Chernobyl' just won 10 Emmys — here's what it gets right (and wrong)...
The HBO series "Chernobyl" gets plenty of things right about the nuclear power plant disaster that most likely exposed hundreds of thousands of people to radiation. But to adapt the story for...
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A settlement was just reached over the 58-story skyscraper in San Francisco...
A tentative settlement was just reached over the notorious sinking and tilting of the Millennium Tower residential building in San Francisco, California. Residents claimed they suffered losses to...
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What school lunch looks like in 19 countries around the world
While students in the US may be enjoying pizza and chocolate milk, those in France are treated to salmon and ratatouille for their school lunch. These photos capture how American school lunches...
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A CEO who writes 9,200 employee birthday cards a year explains the value of...
Sheldon Yellen, CEO of the property-restoration company BELFOR Holdings, Inc., hand-writes birthday cards to each of his 9,200 employees as a way to say thank you. He travels with a suitcase full of...
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Scientists say these 11 major cities could become unlivable within 80 years
As global temperatures and sea levels rise, some of the world's major cities could experience unbearable living conditions. Cities like Chicago and New Delhi have already endured fatal heat waves,...
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The busiest most structurally deficient bridge in every US state
President Trump's plan for an overhauled American infrastructure still has yet to be passed. Some of the most highly traveled bridges in the country are potentially endangering the lives of commuters...
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Disturbing before-and-after images show what major US cities could look like...
Sea levels are rising at accelerating rates. Research group Climate Central created illustrations to show what could become of major US cities, should the worst climate-change predictions come true....
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