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Sutherland lent his star status to acting projects dissecting political and psychological aspects of fascism, including work with Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci and singer Kate Bush.
Ukrainian soldiers unload supplies from a truck in Kharkiv Oblast.
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Recruiters are struggling to find enough men to counter a Russian invasion that has gained momentum in recent months.
Ilustração de um buraco negro supermaciço: observatório de ondas gravitacionais no espaço pode ajudar a identificar nova e ainda desconhecida propriedade comum destes misteriosos objetos além de sua massa, carga e rotação, que os cientistas apelidaram de “cabelo”
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A new study shows how thawing permafrost and intensifying storms will change how water moves into and through Arctic rivers.
Women’s wills and last testaments provide a more nuanced picture of life in the Middle Ages than medieval stereotypes allow, such as that depicted in “Death and the Prostitute” by Master of Philippe of Guelders.
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European women’s rights expanded in early medieval cities, though they were still limited. Last wills and testaments were some of the few documents women could dictate themselves.
Infrastructure can increase vulnerabilities to coastal cities like New York.
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Land subsidence is a factor as preparations are made for rising sea levels and strengthening storms. Human infrastructure, including buildings and groundwater extraction, increases vulnerabilities.
Ukraine has a mixed human rights record over the past several decades, new data shows.
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New data from 2000 through 2019 shows that Ukraine’s human rights record is better than Russia’s – but worse than that of its Western European neighbors.
The federal government sent troops to crush an 1877 rail strike.
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Lawmakers and governing bodies aren’t actively ensuring or promoting equitable access for women and girls. Instead, they’ve chosen to target trans women.
Tourism-driven development is threatening one of Puerto Rico’s greatest draws: its rural coastlines.
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Puerto Rico’s tourism industry is booming as nations lift COVID-19 travel restrictions, but development is displacing people who have lived along its coastlines for years.
Several offshore wind farms are planned for the U.S. Northeast.
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The regionalism that fuels the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is also found in U.S. attitudes about energy production, a new study shows. That could have repercussions for the renewable energy transition.
Manganese nodules on the Atlantic Ocean floor off the southeastern United States, discovered in 2019 during the Deep Sea Ventures pilot test.
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
Companies are eager to mine the deep ocean for valuable mineral deposits. But scientists are concerned about impacts on sea life, including creatures that haven’t even been discovered yet.
Warning sign at a Cape Cod beach.
Carlos García-Quijano
The return of white sharks to Cape Cod, Massachusetts was a tourism success story – until a shark killed a swimmer. Can the Cape’s residents and visitors learn to share the ocean with these apex predators?
Badak Jawa adalah salah satu mamalia paling langka di dunia.
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Badak Jawa termasuk mamalia yang terancam punah. Mereka tinggal di ujung barat Pulau Jawa di jalur tsunami. Untuk menyelamatkan mereka, populasi baru harus dikembangkan.
A male boreal toad waits for opportunities to mate near a Colorado mountain lake.
Brittany Mosher
Frogs and toads are declining around the world, with many species on the brink of extinction. Acting in time means trying strategies without complete information about how likely they are to work.
A man fishing from a dock in Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo
Javan rhinos are among the most endangered mammals in the world: They live on one island in Indonesia, in the path of tsunamis. Saving them will ultimately require establishing additional populations.