Rats could breed too quickly for NYC's successful new extermination method to keep up

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Climate change is threatening a lot of species, but rats don't seem to mind a warming world.

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Meet Brother Spirit, the Buddhist monk who doesn't believe in competition and is behind one of the great partnerships in Silicon Valley

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Brother Spirit is a monk practicing at Plum Village — a monastery in France.

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The first US commercial plant has started to pull carbon from the air. It's able to suck out 1,000 tons annually and plans to expand.

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Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is contributing to our planets warming.

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'Dr. Doom' Nouriel Roubini has said crypto is 'totally corrupt.' Now he's launching his own token.

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Nouriel Roubini

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Beef prices hit record high as southwestern US recovers from worst dry spell in 1,200 years

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Hereford Cattle

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A rapid clean-energy transition could save 181 million years of healthy human life annually by 2050, report finds

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Poor air quality in New York City, caused by wildfires in Canada.

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Seals with funny hats discovered a hidden canyon over a mile deep under Antarctica and scientists want to honor the animals by naming it after them

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In an email to Insider, scientist Clive McMahon called the seals they adhered trackers to heroes.

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2 gas tankers traveled across the Pacific but U-turned just short of the Panama Canal because low water levels have created a traffic jam

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The Panama Canal.

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Clean energy is the future, but stocks aren't acting like it. Here's why.

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Wind turbines at London Array offshore wind park, North Sea, near England, United Kingdom.

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Could making jokes about the climate crisis make people take it seriously? These scientists think so.

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A man douses flames with a bucket of water as a wildfire called the Highland Fire burns through his property in Aguanga, California, on Monday.

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