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    Meatball Made With Wooly Mammoth DNA Created by Food Company

    Meatball Made With Wooly Mammoth DNA Created by Food Company

    The concept of a “mammoth meatball” might conjure up an image of a gigantic meatball at a county fair, but Australian cultured meat company Vow Food — which cultivates meat from animal cells without the slaughter of animals — has produced a meatball that incorporates DNA from the extinct woolly mammoth. The first-ever recreation of […]

    Rewilding Could Help Limit Warming Beyond 1.5°C, Scientists Say

    Rewilding Could Help Limit Warming Beyond 1.5°C, Scientists Say

    It’s no secret that preserving and restoring wilderness areas is good for ecosystems, but a new study has pinpointed another major benefit to rewilding. According to the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, rewilding, or preserving and restoring wildlife and wilderness areas, could improve natural carbon sinks in ecosystems, therefore boosting natural methods […]

    Tornado Outbreak Kills 22 in Mississippi and Alabama

    Tornado Outbreak Kills 22 in Mississippi and Alabama

    At least 22 people have died as tornadoes cut a swathe through Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia on Friday.  Among them was a monster twister that rated a 4 on the 0 to 5 Enhanced Fujita scale for intensity. The three-quarter-mile-wide tornado tore through Mississippi for 59 miles and around an hour and 10 minutes, devastating […]

    English Lawyers Refuse to Prosecute Climate Protestors in ‘Declaration of Conscience’

    English Lawyers Refuse to Prosecute Climate Protestors in ‘Declaration of Conscience’

    A group of lawyers in England have signed a “Declaration of Conscience” saying they will refuse to participate in the prosecution of peaceful climate protesters like Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain. The group of about 120 lawyers, who go by the name “Lawyers are Responsible,” will also refuse to represent those participating […]

    Spreading Infections of Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked to Climate Change

    Spreading Infections of Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked to Climate Change

    The number of Vibrio vulnificus infections is on the rise and spreading northward in the U.S., a new study has found. The researchers have linked the increasing and spreading infections to climate change and predicted that the pathogen will spread further in the coming decades without efforts to curb emissions. Vibrio vulnificus can be a […]