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• Ancient landmarks closed off to walkers, campaigners say

  20-12-2024 01:11 via bbc.com
  
  They include a neolithic burial mound in Wiltshire and an Iron Age hill fort on the edge of Dartmoor.
  
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• Will we control AI, or will it control us? Top researchers weigh in

  11-01-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Some of Canada's top minds in AI offer their predictions for the development of artificial superintelligence, how the technology may change our lives — for better or for worse — in the years to come, and discuss what we can do to maintain control and regulate its use.
  
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• Did we surpass 1.5 C of warming in 2024? It depends on who you ask

  10-01-2025 13:06 via cbc.ca
  
  Today, several climate agencies confirmed what we knew was coming: Earth once again experienced its hottest year on record. But whether or not it surpassed 1.5 C above the pre-industrial average depends on which climate agency you look at.
  
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• 2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit

  10-01-2025 05:13 via bbc.com
  
  Last year was the world's warmest on record, bringing temperatures above a politically symbolic milestone.
  
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• New images of Mercury captured by UK spacecraft

  09-01-2025 16:58 via bbc.com
  
  Stevenage-built BepiColombo makes final flyby of Mercury ahead of entering the plant's orbit in 2026.
  
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• Million year-old bubbles could solve ice age mystery

  09-01-2025 11:01 via bbc.com
  
  What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.
  
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• How powerful Santa Ana winds are supercharging the L.A. wildfires

  08-01-2025 21:18 via cbc.ca
  
  Deadly and destructive wildfires are tearing through the Los Angeles area, and powerful winds are literally fanning the flames. Here's how wind is making the wildfires more dangerous and harder to fight.
  
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• Study links oil and gas industry pollution in Alberta to negative health outcomes

  08-01-2025 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A new study from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., examined the health impacts of pollution from the oil and gas sector in Alberta. The lead author said there's been a lack of research on the topic in Canada.
  
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• St. FX study links oil and gas industry pollution to negative health outcomes

  08-01-2025 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A new study from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., examined the health impacts of pollution from the oil and gas sector in Alberta. The lead author said there's been a lack of research on the topic in Canada.
  
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• Bumblebees winter nest-building 'due to climate'

  08-01-2025 07:19 via bbc.com
  
  Active worker bumblebees were spotted in Scotland over the Christmas break.
  
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• Repetitive injury induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer’s disease by reactivating HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model | Science Signaling

  07-01-2025 15:01 via science.org
  
  Head injury may raise the risk of neurodegenerative disease by awakening a dormant virus.
  
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• IRF1 cooperates with ISGF3 or GAF to form innate immune de novo enhancers in macrophages | Science Signaling

  07-01-2025 15:01 via science.org
  
  How IRF transcription factors orchestrate epigenetic reprogramming in macrophages is revealed.
  
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• Vancouver suspect in 1996 cold case homicide identified through DNA analysis

  07-01-2025 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Lawrence Diehl, 73, has been charged with the second-degree murder of Christopher Smith, who was fatally stabbed on the Portage Bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau almost 30 years ago.
  
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• Powerful earthquake kills at least 95 in western China near Mount Everest

  07-01-2025 12:12 via cbc.ca
  
  A strong earthquake killed at least 95 people in Tibet on Tuesday and left many others trapped as dozens of aftershocks shook the high-altitude region of western China and across the border in Nepal.
  
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• Powerful earthquake kills at least 126 in western China

  07-01-2025 12:12 via cbc.ca
  
  A strong earthquake shook a high-altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal on Tuesday, damaging hundreds of houses, littering streets with rubble and killing at least 126 people in the autonomous Chinese region of Tibet.
  
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• N.S. wildlife sanctuary welcomes upcoming changes to bear rehab policies

  07-01-2025 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  An animal rehabilitation centre on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore is looking forward to the opportunity to rehabilitate orphaned black bear cubs as the Department of Natural Resources readies to issue required permits as early as this spring.
  
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• N.S. wildlife sanctuary welcomes changes to bear rehabilitation policies happening this year

  07-01-2025 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  An animal rehabilitation centre on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore is looking forward to the opportunity to rehabilitate orphaned black bear cubs as the Department of Natural Resources readies to issue required permits as early as this spring.
  
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• MUN scientists testing wild animals to determine spread of avian flu

  07-01-2025 10:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Scientists are looking to understand how widespread avian flu is in Newfoundland and Labrador's ecosystem.
  
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• Rogue waves are little known and can kill. Here's why they're so dangerous

  07-01-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Noah Mintz nearly lost his life when he was hit by a rogue wave, a wave over twice the size of those around it, while wading in knee-deep water in Mexico. He was eventually able to regain mobility, but that's not always the case for those on the receiving end of the ocean's power.
  
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• Record year for wind power in 2024

  07-01-2025 04:49 via bbc.com
  
  Wind provided more electricity than ever last year across England, Wales and Scotland.
  
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• Louisiana reports 1st U.S. human death related to H5N1 avian flu

  06-01-2025 23:07 via cbc.ca
  
  The Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday that a U.S. patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died.
  
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• Iqaluit budgie home safe after a week outdoors in Arctic temperatures

  06-01-2025 21:03 via cbc.ca
  
  An adventurous young budgie in Iqaluit is safely back home after deciding to spread his wings on Christmas Day and spending a week outdoors in Arctic temperatures.
  
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• Cape Breton coastal communities concerned as climate change eliminating sea ice in Gulf

  06-01-2025 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Ice has been steadily disappearing from the Gulf of St. Lawrence with record low levels recorded last winter. Federal officials say within 20 years, it could be gone altogether.
  
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• Western Quebec goats get old Christmas trees as tasty holiday treat

  06-01-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A Luskville, Que., couple has made it an annual tradition to collect their neighbours' Christmas trees and donate them to a local goat farm.
  
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• Did your kid get glasses post-pandemic? Study says myopia rates are soaring around the world

  06-01-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  New research shows the rate of myopia among children and teens worldwide has tripled over the past three decades, with a particularly steep increase noted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. 
  
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• Saving a species: The slow return of the Iberian lynx

  06-01-2025 02:28 via bbc.com
  
  After edging close to extinction, there are now some 2,000 Iberian lynxes in Spain and Portugal.
  
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• Sask. won't get any new wild boar farms, but expert says population still out of control

  06-01-2025 01:13 via cbc.ca
  
  The province is now placing a moratorium on new wild boar farms, which means no new wild pig farms are able to operate. Farms had until Jan. 1 to apply for a licence at no cost. Ryan Brook, a wildlife researcher, said the restrictions are a good initiative, but they're being imposed far too late. 
  
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• 'Humans are all they know' - Fate of whales uncertain as marine zoo shuts

  05-01-2025 15:36 via bbc.com
  
  Campaigners, politicians and zoo managers disagree on where Wikie and her son Keijo should be sent.
  
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• St. FX researchers build first-of-its-kind landfill simulator

  05-01-2025 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  St. Francis Xavier University researchers have built a first-of-its-kind simulation facility to measure landfill emissions using new technology. Dave Risk, an emissions measurement researcher at the university, says the waste sector is looking for new ways to reduce and collect emissions.
  
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• Canada's skies are opening to new drone rules in 2025

  05-01-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Transport Canada is cutting the red tape for longer-distance flights over less-populated areas, among other changes to aviation regulations. It means large-scale drone deliveries, aerial mapping, inspections and more will become more straightforward.
  
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