In the first excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s highly anticipated upcoming memoir, the former Democratic presidential candidate said her “skin crawled” during a debate with Donald Trump. In audio clips of Clinton reading from the book, “What Happened,” which were first obtained by MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, Clinton recounted her […]
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As the global climate changes and temperatures continue to rise, heat stress is becoming a major limiting factor for pea cultivation. A new study indicates that pea plants with some specific traits — such as longer flowering time and higher pod numbers — may be more resistant to heat stress. […]
The vulnerability and conservation value of sub-tropical reefs south of the Great Barrier Reef — regarded as climate change refuges — has been highlighted in a new study. The study of Eastern Australian reefs revealed coral species would likely shift their distribution southward in response to climate change.
FILE – In this file photo dated Wednesday March 30, 2011, showing smoke emitting from a chimney in IJmuiden, Netherlands. Environmentalists group Friends of the Earth, have gone to court Wednesday Aug. 23, 2017, to demand that the Dutch government take urgent action to improve air quality, arguing that authorities […]
WASHINGTON — The average number of U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan at any given time is thousands more than the Pentagon officially acknowledges, according to three U.S. defense officials. The Pentagon officially acknowledges 8,400 troops on the ground there, but that number actually hovers between 11,000 and 12,000, the officials […]
In Las Vegas, on August 26, the unbeaten American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr and the immensely popular Irishman Conor McGregor will face off in a boxing ring, where only striking with hands while standing is allowed. It would be just another boxing match, albeit a huge one, except that McGregor […]
TOKYO — North Korea’s state media released new photos Wednesday that appear to show the designs of one or possibly two new missiles. Concept diagrams were seen hanging on a wall behind leader Kim Jong Un while he visited a plant that makes solid-fuel engines for the country’s ballistic-missile program. […]