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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The bottled water industry is a juggernaut. More than 1 million bottles of water are sold every minute around the world and…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN The bottled water industry is a juggernaut. More than 1 million bottles of water are sold every minute around the world and…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images of the surface of Venus, they discovered something new:…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA and Texas-based company Axiom Space have revealed a new spacesuit design — and it could be these…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN A plant-eating sauropod that lumbered around what’s now China some 162 million years ago had a neck that was about 10 feet…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a rare and tumultuous sight 15,000 light-years away from Earth. The space…
Continue ReadingOriginally Published: 14 MAR 23 13:00 ETUpdated: 14 MAR 23 14:00 ETBy Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A Russian fighter jet…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN Only 13 of the world’s countries and territories had “healthy” air quality last year, according to a new…
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Lou, Saeed Ahmed and Katia Hetter, CNN If you’ve been using Pi Day as an excuse to just eat pie, that’s just peachy (or apple…
Continue ReadingOriginally Published: 13 MAR 23 11:09 ETUpdated: 13 MAR 23 16:09 ETBy Nimi Princewill, Larry Madowo and Alex Hardie, CNN (CNN)…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN From lengthy droughts to severe flooding, the intensity of water-related disasters around the world has increased over the…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN The battle against the single-use plastic bag may not be won but it’s definitely under way. Restrictions on their use are in…
Continue ReadingBy Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea launched two missiles from a submarine in the waters of the Sea of Japan Sunday morning…
Continue ReadingBy Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Chen, CNN Iran has arrested more than 100 people “in connection with” the suspected poisoning of hundreds…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN The four astronauts who make up the Crew-5 team aboard the International Space Station returned home from a five-month stay in…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists met this week in London at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing to discuss advances in the field —…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN Scientists have set out a way to suck planet-heating carbon pollution from the air, turn it into sodium bicarbonate and store…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a “small chance”…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN Booty-shaking worker bees guide their fellow workers to pollen by a form of communication known as “waggle…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The Curiosity rover just sent back a stunning postcard capturing its view of a shimmering sunset on Mars. The NASA rover…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel the mystery of how water appeared in our solar system billions of years…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region’s permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and…
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN Millions of people in India and around the world celebrating Holi this week. The Hindu festival of love, color and spring is one…
Continue ReadingBy Paula Newton, CNN Amid recent allegations that China attempted to meddle in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 elections, Canadian Prime Minister Justin…
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, CNN Progress toward gender equality is “vanishing before our eyes,” United Nations Secretary General António…
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers and Ashley Strickland, CNN The final full moon of winter will light up the sky this week, and it coincides with another special…
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Aaron Pellish, Chloe Liu and Heather Chen, CNN The US is working with Ukrainian pilots in the United States to determine how long…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN Nearly 200 countries have agreed to a legally-binding “high seas treaty” to protect marine life in international…
Continue ReadingBy Xiaofei Xu and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN Several sub-Saharan countries, including Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea and Gabon, are helping their citizens…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The human brain is unrivaled in its capacity to process information. Sure, we have days where our minds don’t feel as…
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