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Everything you think you know about
bald eagles is wrong

Bald eagles look awesome. It’s why they’re a good national symbol—they seem so fearsome and regal. But despite their image being absolutely freakin’ everywhere, the average American probably doesn’t know a whole lot about them.
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Fireworks pose a huge
hazard during this scorching
Fourth of July weekend

With all these droughts and heatwaves, the landscape is super flammable. You can help protect it.
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Wet bulb globe temperature is the vital weather stat you’ve never heard of
With the planet warming, wet-bulb globe temperature is going to be an increasingly useful measurement.
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THE LONG READ
These scientists spent decades
pushing NASA to go back to Venus.
Now they’re on a hot streak.

Our next-door planet is similar to Earth in size and composition, but extreme conditions made Venus a hellscape. Devoted researchers want to know what caused their wildly divergent paths.
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just sayin,and/or am i reakky mmm,popular science
 

NASA
The North American heatwave shows we need to know how climate change will change our weather
Christian Jakob, Monash University; Michael Reeder, Monash University

Rain near Japan triggered a heat wave in North America. To know our future, we have a lot to learn about what drives extreme weather.


National Museum of Australia
Fifty years after Whitlam’s breakthrough China trip, the Morrison government could learn much from it
Tony Walker, La Trobe University

In 1971, then-Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam made a significant trip to China. Now, with tensions between the two countries showing no signs of abating, it may be time to look to his example.


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‘Although we didn’t produce these problems, we suffer them’: 3 ways you can help in NAIDOC’s call to Heal Country
Bhiamie Williamson, Australian National University

For Indigenous people, Country is more than a landscape. But climate change, and the natural disasters it produces, present a clear and present threat to Country, culture and heritage.


for the sake of it
bc he can and did ha
 

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Socialist candidate Pedro Castillo has emerged as the virtual winner of Peru’s still-undeclared June 6 presidential contest, but for him and his supporters, it’s still too early to celebrate. Castillo, who holds a razor-thin lead over conservative Keiko Fujimori, has been the target of hate speech and anti-Indige
 
believe/heard united put in a mammoth order with boeing bw

like/love,them that
wish them the best

why
becauseprobably 30 years ago,when in my global,and aussie/nz often a dozen trips annually,i utilized tem and usa continental

at te time they were the 2 airlines in this region twat really introduced cut-price fares
ie often 90-00 token,one way
admitedly just to fill tere aircraft,on a flight ending in sydney
often the aircraft wasent cleaned ha

but,do you think that worred a 20 something,intant on getting pissed on the short hop 2 and a 1/2 hours average haha

loyalty/promoting yay


You're right about the short hop flights. This is one of the reasons that we don't see wide bodies anymore as they are too expensive to operate and the airllines can't fill all the seats. I still have an article out of the NY Times from 1986 titled "Urge to Merge". It predeicted that many airlines would merge in the future and that they'd capacity out of the system--meaning smaller planes and fewer flights.