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Snow is blown off of the calving front off of Thurston Island in western Antarctica in this photo, taken in November 2014. New findings show the western side of Antarctica to be more vulnerable to warming oceans — and increased ice loss — than first thoug

A scientist’s response to Antarctic ice loss: ‘We can act.’

When it came to figuring how much ice loss was taking place over the last five years in Antarctica, they knew it was a bad situation — but they did not realize it was this bad.

Fares Al Dhufairy

This asylum-seeker escaped ‘the chicken house’ and made one last dangerous crossing

Conflict
The BBC's Jonathan L'Anson plays a recording for Stan Beaton.

Tears of joy as a husband hears ‘lost’ recording of his late wife’s voice

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Amazon Forest as a Source of Carbon Dioxide

Amazon Forest as a Source of Carbon Dioxide

Pesticides & Prostate

Lawn chemicals, weed killers and other pesticides may be possible causes of cancer. That’s the initial findings from a health advisory panel in Britain, which reviewed a number of scientific studies on prostate cancer. Host Steve Curwood talks with David Forman, a researcher at the Universtiy of Leeds in England and a member of the […]