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And it’s solely going to worsen. In a 2020 paper, College of Washington researchers calculated that the typical variety of “days spent working in unsafe circumstances” resulting from extreme warmth will seemingly double by mid-century,…

The LSU report, though, became best known for its proposed solution, which focused on counteracting levees. The authors suggested that some water and mud be diverted out of the Mississippi, back into the marshland. Let the river resume…

An official high up in the agency essentially agreed with her critique, Bottemiller Evich reports. The agency has “too many programs and not enough resources,” Janet Woodcock, FDA’s principal deputy commissioner, told her, “and the…

Text size Canopy Growth reported a 36% drop in revenue from Canadian recreational cannabis sales compared with the…

Shares of Aurora Cannabis Inc. were lower in Thursday’s late trading session, after the company announced $125 million of bought-deal financing. Under the terms of the deal, a group of underwriters led Canaccord Genuity and…

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Across Midwestern farms, if Girish Chowdhary has his way, farmers will someday release beagle-sized robots into their fields like a pack of hounds…

Photograph: Tyler JonesNASA performed a few experiments following the 1960s and ’70s moon landing missions that brought back lunar material, but those were nothing like what Paul and Ferl attempted. “A small amount of regolith material…

After its third quarterly earnings report since going public, coffee chain Dutch Bros. Inc.’s shares were slaughtered in late trading Wednesday after executives revised their annual outlook to predict less profit…

In April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change dropped a gargantuan report examining how humans might mitigate the worst impacts of climate change. The entire report runs almost 3,000 pages, but the bit you really need to know…