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The US Forest Service has halted previously approved funding for using controlled burns to minimize future forest fires, NPR reports, citing the government’s intention to focus primarily on a “full fire suppression… Read More

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A major US distribution company plans to expand its use of self-driving long-haul trucks, from a pilot program in Texas with a human in the cab as a precaution to “unsupervised” operations… Read More

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A landslide in southeast Alaska last year triggered “one of the highest-reaching tsunamis ever recorded,” the Alaska Beacon reports. Although it caused no major damage, researchers noted that “with climate change making… Read More

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The US government has loosened restrictions on medical marijuana in states where it is already allowed, a shift that a PBS report calls “jump-starting the process for reclassifying marijuana more broadly.” But… Read More

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