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Israel told Palestinians to evacuate to southern Gaza — and stepped up attacks there

Friday, November 17, 2023

Satellite imagery shows a steady increase in the number of buildings destroyed in middle and southern Gaza. Most damage appeared after Oct. 13, when Israel's military urged evacuation from the north.

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Map: After a month of bombardments, as much as a third of Gaza City is damaged

Thursday, November 09, 2023

New analysis of imagery from a European Space Agency satellite allows for what researchers say is the most comprehensive look yet at the scale of damage due to the Israeli bombardment.

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Satellites and social media offer hints about Israel's ground war strategy in Gaza

Friday, November 03, 2023

The Israeli military appears to have encircled Gaza City, but so far, it's made only limited forays into the densest urban areas.

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Here's the available evidence of what happened at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Videos and photos provide some clues, but much remains unknown about the horrific explosion at the site.

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The bruising artillery battle in Ukraine has left a scar that is visible from space

Friday, October 06, 2023

NASA-backed researchers say that millions of acres of farmland have been abandoned due to the conflict.

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Living in the shadow of a dangerous shrinking glacier

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Melting glaciers are leaving behind unstable lakes around the world. Millions of people live downstream, in places increasingly threatened by deadly flash floods. What will it take to protect them?

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The world's melting ice has surprising impacts. Can you guess them?

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are far from where most people live. But the impacts stretch across the planet. See if you can guess how.

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Why Texans need to know how quickly Antarctica's ice is melting

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Ice in Antarctica is melting rapidly. That's driving sea level rise around the world. But some places are threatened more than others, and Texas is in the crosshairs.

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The surprising connection between Arctic ice and Western wildfires

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

The ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is shrinking as the climate gets hotter. Scientists are finding it could be linked to weather that's helping fuel disasters.

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The unexpected link between imperiled whales and Greenland's melting ice

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Climate change is pushing already endangered right whales to the brink. Scientists say the oceans will fundamentally shift as the world's ice melts.

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If there's a war against climate change, Saint-Louis is on the front line. And losing

Monday, February 13, 2023

The UNESCO World Heritage city of Saint-Louis is perched precariously between the Atlantic Ocean and the Senegal River. And it's on borrowed time.

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When the seas rise in Senegal, so do the fortunes of far-right parties in Europe

Monday, February 06, 2023

Sweeping global trends are changing the world. As climate change heats up the planet and pushes people to migrate, far-right politicians see both a threat and an opportunity.

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Foraging helped me discover a world of free fruits and veggies

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

In an ever modernizing world, foraging provides an opportunity to recall the simplicity of survival. All the things I thought I needed pale in comparison to a delicious piece of neglected fruit.

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Here's just how close the war in Ukraine has come to Europe's largest nuclear plant

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Satellite images and social media analyzed by NPR show attacks have hit structures around the plant, coming dangerously close to causing a nuclear disaster.

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Pro-Trump counties continue to suffer far higher COVID death tolls

Thursday, May 19, 2022

As Americans commemorate a million deaths due to COVID-19, the partisan divide of who has gotten sick and died continues to grow, mostly due to disinformation about the vaccines.

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A community of seed savers has a recipe to revive rare varieties of collard greens

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Collards were once as diverse as the Southern families they fed, but countless varieties have vanished. The race is on to preserve and propagate. That's where the Heirloom Collard Project comes in.

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These numbers show just how impactful the latest COVID-19 surge is

Monday, December 27, 2021

Most states are at the highest level of COVID risk and hot spots are emerging across the country as the omicron variant takes hold. Here are the latest numbers by state.

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Omicron may be less severe in South Africa. That may not be the case for the U.S.

Friday, December 17, 2021

Researchers in South Africa have found that people infected with omicron, on average, are less likely to end up in the hospital. But the variant may act differently here in the U.S.

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Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame

Sunday, December 05, 2021

An analysis by NPR shows that since the vaccine rollout, counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump have had more than twice the COVID mortality rates of those that voted for Joe Biden.

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What Colin Powell's death can and can't tell us about COVID breakthrough cases

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

With high-profile stories of vaccinated people dying from COVID, how worried should you be about getting a serious breakthrough case? Here's how the data shake out.

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