South Africa’s Karoo region is world famous for its wealth of fossil remains. Many of these are from long extinct land animals that lived between 280 and 200 million years ago. This was a time…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Splinters of ice peel off from one of the sides of the Perito Moreno glacier By Emma Farge and Kate Abnett GENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – 2020 was one of the three hottest…
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For decades, the frozen Arctic was little more than a footnote in global economic competition, but that’s changing as its ice melts with the warming climate. Russia is now attempting to claim more of the…
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© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Gold was down on Monday morning in Asia but remained near the seven-week peak hit during the previous session as retreating U.S. Treasury yields boosted demand for the…
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Mobile money — a technology that enables financial transactions through mobile phones without a bank account — is driving financial inclusion, especially in developing countries. It gives more people a chance to use financial products…
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The recent announcement that scientists have made human-monkey embryos and cultured them in the lab for two weeks made international headlines. The technology to make animals that contain cells from other species has been available…
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© Reuters By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — Is gold on the way to $1,800 an ounce? And will it continue advancing from there? Those questions are probably on everyone’s mind after gold futures on Comex…
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Traditionally, there is no word for business among the pastoralist communities of the arid Marsabit County, in northern Kenya. Nor do they have words for any of its most common terms, such as profit. Instead,…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea During 2.4 million years of existence on Earth, a total of 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex ever lived, and 20,000 individual animals…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing SHANGHAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China and the United States agree that stronger pledges to fight climate change should be…
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