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Inside the global orange juice crisis
The Raw Story· 19 hours agoAbout 50 million tonnes of oranges are grown each year, 34% of them in Brazil. Brazil is also the world’s biggest exporter of orange juice by far,...
EU parliament election sees shaken center hold – but far right now has some chances
The Raw Story· 3 hours agoThe big shock came in France, with President Emmanuele Macron’s defeat at that hands of the RN...
Emigration: The hidden catalyst behind the rise of the radical right in Europe’s depopulating...
San Francisco Chronicle· 41 minutes agoLurking in the details of the agreement, however, are provisions allowing for payments to third countries to block the entry of asylum-seekers to Europe – and, more ominously, preliminary plans ...
With all this bird flu around, how safe are eggs, chicken or milk?
Salon.com· 5 days agoBird flu (or avian influenza) is a bird disease caused by specific types of influenza virus. Indeed,...
West Bonner considers school closures after levy fail
Tribune via AOL· 4 days agoJun. 5—PRIEST RIVER, Idaho — The West Bonner School Board met Wednesday night to weigh whether to close several of its five schools next year as it balances a budget shortfall from a failed ...
Scientists discover 4 new species of octopus. Here’s what we know about the creatures
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOff the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, scientists noticed “two octopus nurseries affiliated with...
A shocking 79% of female scientists have negative experiences during polar field work
The Raw Story· 4 days agoEvery day, women are working on frontier science in Earth’s unforgiving polar environments. Fieldwork in the Arctic and Antarctica is a critical part of the scientific research that’s addressing ...
Seven years after Harvey, Houston was caught off guard by derecho. Should it have been?
The Raw Story· 7 days agoThis article first appeared on Houston Landing and is republished here under a Creative Commons ...
Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an...
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 days agoThe heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the Sun, is over a hundred times larger than the distance from the Sun to the Earth. The Sun is a star that constantly emits a steady stream ...
Job figures are coming out, and here’s my prediction: The markets will overreact to the headlines
Houston Chronicle· 4 days agoWithin minutes of the data drop, news organizations send out push alerts, pundits start opining, and the headlines — and headline numbers — coagulate into a simple narrative, often along the ...
