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Scientists have ‘grim outlook’ on Doomsday Glacier as main countries at risk if it collapses revealed

Scientists have ‘grim outlook’ on Doomsday Glacier as main countries at risk if it collapses revealed

Scientists are worried about the fate of one of the most important glaciers in the world, because if it collapses it'll have a catastrophic effect on nations around the globe. Rising global temperatures are resulting in glaciers melting at an...

Special SNAP program could improve maternal health, researchers say

Special SNAP program could improve maternal health, researchers say

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - Expanding awareness of the WIC program and improving access to WIC-approved foods could help boost maternal and infant health in Arkansas, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas for...

UAMS researchers find new way to boost Arkansas's maternal & infant health

UAMS researchers find new way to boost Arkansas's maternal & infant health

UAMS researchers recently found that improving the USDA’s SNAP program for Women, Infants, and Children could help boost maternal & infant health across Arkansas. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A new study by researchers at the University of Arkansas for...

Increased WIC Participation Could Be Key to Improving State Maternal Health Rates, UAMS Researchers Find

Increased WIC Participation Could Be Key to Improving State Maternal Health Rates, UAMS Researchers Find

View Larger Image July 7, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — Expanding awareness of the WIC program and improving access to WIC-approved foods could help boost maternal and infant health in Arkansas, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas for...

Purdue Research Foundation to help lead expedition to locate lost Amelia Earhart aircraft

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- On the 88th anniversary of her disappearance, the Purdue Research Foundation is teaming up with the Archaeological Legacy Institute on an expedition to locate Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft. According to a news release, the...

Russia's shadow tanker fleet has tripled since 2022 – research

Russia's shadow tanker fleet has tripled since 2022 – research

Stock Photo: Getty Images The size of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers has grown from fewer than 100 vessels at the beginning of 2022 to between 300 and 600 by early 2025, depending on the counting method. Source: Safety4sea.com,...

Purdue Research Foundation Tries to Find Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane

Purdue Research Foundation Tries to Find Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.–The Purdue Research Foundation believes they might have a positive lead on how to find Amelia Earhart’s lost plane. On July 2, 1937, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot...

‘Maybe the greatest opportunity ever’: Researchers announce new expedition to locate Amelia Earhart’s lost plane

‘Maybe the greatest opportunity ever’: Researchers announce new expedition to locate Amelia Earhart’s lost plane

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WGN) — Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, researchers have announced a new expedition to locate the aviation pioneer’s lost aircraft. On Wednesday,...

Purdue Research Foundation joining efforts to locate Amelia Earhart's lost plane

Purdue Research Foundation joining efforts to locate Amelia Earhart's lost plane

The expedition is taking place in November 2025. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first around-the-world flight along the...

Purdue Research Foundation and Archaeological Legacy Institute to embark on expedition to identify Amelia Earhart’s missing plane 

Purdue Research Foundation and Archaeological Legacy Institute to embark on expedition to identify Amelia Earhart’s missing plane 

In recognition of PRF’s contribution, Earhart intended to give the plane to Purdue upon her return, where it would be used to further scientific research in aeronautics. Although she never returned, the Purdue-Earhart connection remains strong....

The Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years on: re-energising for global peace

The Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years on: re-energising for global peace

The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985, with the death of Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, was a terrible tragedy. But a greater tragedy is the horrendous legacy of Pacific nuclear testing for the people of Rongelap, the...

The Rainbow Warrior bombing

The Rainbow Warrior bombing

BY David Robie THE bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July, 1985, with the death of Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, was a terrible tragedy. But a greater tragedy is the horrendous legacy of Pacific nuclear testing for the people of...

Scientists chart radiation at WA nuclear blast site 70 years on

Scientists chart radiation at WA nuclear blast site 70 years on

Cam McGurk's stories of one of Australia's most heavily irradiated areas come drenched in warm Pilbara sunshine. "I actually spent my honeymoon at the Montebello Islands," Mr McGurk, a longtime member of the Ashburton Anglers fishing club, said....

The search for heat-resilient corals moves forward in the Marshall Islands

The search for heat-resilient corals moves forward in the Marshall Islands

In April, partners in the Scaling up identification, protection, and local management of coral reefs resistant to future climate stress project gathered in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), to continue ongoing efforts to identify...

Global Voices: 40 Years on from the Bombing of Rainbow Warrior

Global Voices: 40 Years on from the Bombing of Rainbow Warrior

The Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years on: re-energising for global peace, By: David Robie. The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985, with the death of Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, was a terrible tragedy. But a greater tragedy...

ICE is now hunting for clergy members willing to work in  Guantánamo Bay

ICE is now hunting for clergy members willing to work in Guantánamo Bay

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Why some people have no sense of direction, according to science

Why some people have no sense of direction, according to science

Your sense of direction, or lack of it, might be influenced by where you were brought up Ever wondered why some people have no sense of direction? Why they start walking the wrong way, even when they’re looking at Google Maps on their phone? There...

This World or the Next? Why Not Both?

This World or the Next? Why Not Both?

“Primer desembarco de Cristóbal Colón en América” (The First Landing of Christopher Columbus in America), by Dióscoro Teófilo Puebla Tolín (Wikimedia CC public domain image) This item has just been posted on the fossilized and entirely static...

Nautilus Leads Deep Dive into Wartime History

Nautilus Leads Deep Dive into Wartime History

The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET)’s exploration vessel, E/V Nautilus, has launched its third expedition of 2025 to survey historically significant World War II shipwrecks in Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands. The site was the location of five...

What a Nuclear Explosion Looks Like

What a Nuclear Explosion Looks Like

In 2003, the photographer Michael Light published 100 Suns, a collection of government photographs of nuclear-weapons tests conducted from 1945 to 1962. Each bomb test was given an innocuous name—Sugar, Easy, Zucchini, Orange—and then detonated in...

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