Fast-fashion brands have only upped the production with ultra-fast fashion garments, made in as little as a week, full of plastics and short-lasting, now accounting for up to a third of the entire industry.
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Former President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act 50 years ago. However, he did not make metric adoption mandatory, and the efforts fell flat.
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Robin Lubbock/WBURIn Massachusetts, coastal real estate is becoming less attractive as climate change brings repeated flooding to those areas.
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Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights into why miscarriages occur and how they can be prevented. -
Trump administration officials say changes to federal agencies engaged in science were made in the interests of better science that benefits more Americans. Many scientists we spoke with disagree.
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Officials said the error is likely too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals. -
Researchers retrieved reef monitoring devices that had been placed in deep coral reefs in Guam. The devices were placed up to 330 feet below the surface. -
A wildlife photographer was following tracks of deer and vulture when he stumbled across thousands of dinosaur tracks spanning hundreds of meters. -
Trump withdrew Isaacman's nomination in May, citing the billionaire's donations to Democrats and ties to Elon Musk. He was renominated last month and confirmed by a 67-30 Senate vote on Wednesday. -
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is a cornerstone for American climate and weather science.
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A nature photographer stumbled upon thousands of 210-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Italy's central Alps, near where some Olympic skiing and snowboarding events will be held in February. -
President Trump made a similar proposal in his first term, but after facing political pushback, reversed himself and expanded a drilling ban.
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Researchers found our brains go through five distinct phases from birth to old age.
