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Many levees built in the mid-1900s do not offer enough protection for today’s storms, and small rural communities in particular struggle to afford needed upgrades.
El Niño can affect agriculture, marine life and economies in profound ways, including slowing commerce at the Panama Canal. This El Niño is likely to be the strongest in over a century.
Bacteria use strategies similar to artificial neural networks to use the past to adapt to the future.
A small party with socialist roots stands as possible kingmaker in Saxony-Anhalt.
Horses have been used to make antivenom for more than a century. Could our new research offer a better way?
We need to stop worrying about intelligent machines and start building intelligent societies.
Roman Slepcsik’s plight shows how people become embedded in families, communities and workplaces in ways immigration categories alone cannot capture.
Newsrooms, rather than acting as critical watchdogs, arguably echoed the Bush administration’s narrative.
The ban may end up hurting Palestinian producers.
Sweden’s prison population could increase to more than 30,000 in the coming decades.
Research links unsafe conditions, long hours and poor sleep with worse mental health at sea. Conflict can intensify each of these pressures.
The US president does not have a convincing story to tell about the Iran confict.