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As heatwaves and floods hit cities worldwide, these places are pioneering solutions

Climate change is going just as badly for cities as we have been warned it would. Extreme weather is increasingly common and severe globally. Australian cities have endured a number of recent disastrous events.

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Stopping the cancer cells that thrive on chemotherapy – research into how pancreatic tumors adapt to stress could lead to a new treatment approach

As with weeds in a garden, it is a challenge to fully get rid of cancer cells in the body once they arise. They have a relentless need to continuously expand, even when they are significantly cut back by therapy or surgery. Even a few cancer cells can give rise…

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NASA's busiest year in decades – an astronomer sums up the dizzying array of missions in 2022

NASA had a banner year in 2022, with many successful missions in what was one of the organization’s most active years in decades.

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How 1950s bombsites in the UK were turned into adventure playgrounds

In 1944, Marie Paneth, an Austrian-born art therapist, imagined a scheme whereby London’s bombsites would be used by local children for building huts and caves and for growing vegetables which they could then sell. Paneth saw the children as the future landlords of these damaged grounds, with minimal adult intervention.

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'Vaccinating' frogs may or may not protect them against a pandemic – but it does provide another option for conservation

When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many wildlife disease researchers like me were not too surprised. Some were intrigued it hadn’t happened sooner; after all, it is our job to observe, describe and study pandemic dynamics in animals.

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Cruising for a bruising: $$$s v nature in Milford Sound

As international cruise ships once again ply our waters, there’s renewed debate about whether they belong in one of New Zealand’s - and the world’s - most precious places.

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5 senses? In fact, architects say there are 7 ways we perceive our environments

Have you ever wondered why you feel cozy in some places while you feel stunned in others? Think about the last international airport you landed in, or a local coffee shop in your neighbourhood.

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Lost Frontierland theme park was short train ride from Liverpool

The wild west theme park's most memorable rides and what happened to them when it closed

Liverpool Echo

Frontierland: Lost rides of now abandoned theme park loved by Manchester kids in its heyday

Frontierland was a Wild West theme park that has been derelict for over 20 years

Manchester Evening News

Extremists use video games to recruit vulnerable youth. Here's what parents and gamers need to know

Reports of far-right extremists trying to recruit young people through video games have raised concerns for parents, guardians and youth alike.

The Conversation

Hidden women of history: Kate Cocks, the pioneering policewoman who fought crime and ran a home for babies – but was no saint

In 1915, an unmarried, 40-year-old woman by the name of Fanny Kate Boadicea Cocks was hand-picked for the role of South Australia’s first policewoman. A small number of others had taken up similar roles globally, amid growing fears for the morality of young women enjoying ever more independence in a…

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Playing sea soundscapes can summon thousands of baby oysters – and help regrow oyster reefs

Imagine you’re in a food court and spoilt for choice. How will you choose where to eat? It might be the look of the food, the smell, or even the chatter of satisfied customers.

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By fact-checking Thoreau's observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old diaries and specimens can inform modern research

Henry David Thoreau, the environmental philosopher and author of “Walden”, was a keen observer of seasonal change. In 1862, for example, he wrote in the Atlantic Monthly:

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Emperor penguins will receive endangered species protections

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is listing the penguins native to Antarctica as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

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Treasury inadvertently reveals plans for new economic advisory body

Highlighted papers captured by official photographer also appear to stress the importance of ‘Cabinet unity’.

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How to win the Booker prize: is there a formula for ‘the finest in fiction’?

They say that everyone has a book in them. But how about a Booker prize? That’s probably what the six shortlisted authors of the Booker prize 2022 will be wondering as they count down the days to the live-streamed awards ceremony.

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Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Lebanon Maritime Accord

Israel’s full Cabinet will decide maritime and gas agreement with Lebanon after its security cabinet voted in favor of the deal

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Israeli PM Rejects Lebanese ‘amendments’ To Maritime Border And Gas Deal

Lapid accused by Netanyahu for caving into Hezbollah threats while rejecting changes in Israel-Lebanese border and gas deal

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Searing summers in European cities pose a continent-wide health inequality challenge

Europe has experienced its hottest summer in recorded history. Globally, the temperature during August 2022 was 0.3°C higher than the average for the month between 1991 and 2020.

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How to ensure the world's largest pumped-hydro dam isn't a disaster for Queensland's environment

To quit coal and move to renewables, we need large-scale energy storage. That’s where pumped hydro comes in. Queensland’s ambitious new plan involves shifting from a coal-dominated electricity grid to 80% renewables within 13 years, using 22 gigawatts of new wind and solar. The plan relies on two massive new…

Manchester Evening News

Unearthed photos of Manchester train stations in the 1980s and 1990s from a former British Rail worker

The collection includes photos of Manchester Piccadilly, Oxford Road, Wigan North Western and Navigation Road

Daily Mirror

Inside abandoned sanatorium where patients wrapped up like mummies then drenched in water

St. Albans Sanatorium has seen many untimely deaths on its grounds and was originally the site of a massacre before becoming a boys' school where bullying was encouraged

Liverpool Echo

Former rail worker shares fascinating photos of Lime Street Station from 1979 to 1991

Former British Rail worker Michael Patterson has captured life at Lime Street Station between 1979 and 1991

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Conservationists, Ngāi Tahu vying over West Coast land

As an outdoors group goes into bat for more national parkland, the land stewardship review process is called into question.

Bristol Post

Journey back to the 1980s with amazing unearthed photos of Bristol Temple Meads railway station

Incredible images filed away for decades show former British Rail worker's nostalgic scenes of yesterday

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