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Photos show severe damage in America's 2020 fire wildfire season

A firefighter battles the wildfire near Irvine, California, the United States, on Dec. 3, 2020. (Photo by Zeng Hui/Xinhua) A recent study using satellite photos of wildfire devastation in Cali

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Wildfires burn lands, threaten homes and lives in Southern California

00:36 A late night brush fire in El Cajon, California forced evacuations of hundreds of people from their homes late Wednesday night. New rounds of wildfires have spread throughout sou

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UK-made Mars rover on track for life-finding mission after successful test

The latest test went as expected and saw a vehicle dropped from 18 miles over the state of Oregon.

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Fire victims face critical housing shortage

02:50 The process of rebuilding in the aftermath of California wildfires has been relatively slow for hundreds of families waiting for insurance payments. But it's been a far more ardu

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Koalas face danger of extinction in parts of Australia by 2050

01:29 Fears are rising that koalas, one of Australia's most iconic animals, may die out in parts of the country by 2050, according to a report issued by the Australian government earli

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California starts cutting power to homes to prevent fires

Photo: Xinhua California's largest utility, PGE Corp., has started cutting power to homes and businesses in efforts to prevent live wires from falling and sparking blazes as the state continue

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How frequent wildfires changed the way people rebuild homes

(Scroll to the right to see more)Wildfires are common in many western areas of the United States, typically from August to November. But this year's fires are especially intense

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Seraphim Capital’s SpaceTech accelerator releases details of its newest SpaceCamp cohort

The UK’s Seraphim Capital, the country’s only SpaceTech accelerator, has released details of its newest cohort as part of its SpaceCamp programme, timed with the end of World Space Week la

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This September was the hottest on record, scientists find

Surface temperatures were 0.05C higher than last year, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service said.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon lets you pay with your palm

Amazon unveils a new biometric ID technology, the Biden campaign takes aim at Facebook and iRobot’s co-founder joins a robotic gardening startup. This is your Daily Crunch for September 29, 202

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Starlink puts towns devastated by wildfires online for disaster relief workers

SpaceX’s Starlink has showed its utility in connecting far-flung locations to the internet quickly and relatively simply in Washington, where like much of the west coast wildfires have caused e

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California will require all passenger vehicles sold in the state be zero-emission by 2035

California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Wednesday requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles be zero-emission by 2035.The new order would be a huge boost for electric vehicles

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World's richest 1% produce twice the emissions of poorest 50%

VCG The richest one percent of people are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the poorest half of the world's population – 3.1 billion people – a new research showed Mo

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California wildfire smoke blankets parts of Canada

The LNU Lightning Complex Fire engulfs a ridge line near Aetna Springs, California, U.S. August 23, 2020. /Reuters Smoke from California and Oregon wildfires has cloaked Canada's third-largest

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As the Western US burns, a forest carbon capture monitoring service nabs cash from Amazon & Bill Gates backed fund

Pachama, the forest carbon sequestration monitoring service that tracks how much carbon dioxide is actually captured in forestry offset projects, has raised $5 million in fresh funding from a clutch o

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SmartNews’ U.S. app unveils new features for the elections, COVID-19 and local weather

News discovery app SmartNews’ new election features for U.S. usersAt TechCrunch Disrupt today, SmartNews announced the release of major new features for the American version of its news discove

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TechCrunch statement on sweep at our venue

There have been a couple of articles published in the last two days reporting on an impromptu sweep that took place outside of a venue we are using for our TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco th