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    Science, Skepticism, and Self-Care: Navigating Modern Vaccine Debates

    Prostock-studio / Shutterstock.com Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. Vaccines have protected people for generations, yet they remain a source of...
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    Earth’s Oceans Lose Some of Their Luster

    New research reveals that a key biological carbon pump is weakening, threatening ecosystems and the climate. By Bob Berwyn Pictures of Earth from outer space often show the planet as a gaudy quilt. Shimmering aquamarine water covers more than 70 percent of its surface and those hues often seem...
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    8 Expenses That Retirees Regret Not Cutting Sooner — and Why

    WHYFRAME / Shutterstock.com Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. Retirement can completely restructure one’s finances and habitual spending. Retirees can...
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    Cross-government planning proposals threaten nature and must be fixed

    This post is by Richard Benwell, chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link The planning system must be improved for nature. When development damages protected wildlife, developers shouldn’t scrape by with an offset as they do today. They should pay toward restoration. In an ecological […]
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    Scientists Warn About the ‘Greenlandification’ of Antarctica

    Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases. By Bob Berwyn As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of...
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    Some Shovelnose Sturgeon in Illinois Are Huge and Researchers Are Fishing for Reasons Why

    Sturgeon are among the most endangered of fish, but the shovelnose species in the Rock River is thriving. Scientists from Midwest states are studying how to manage them. By Susan Cosier Most days, researcher Stefan Tucker, with trawls, trammel nets, trot lines and even electrofishing gear, is...
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    5 Science-Backed Ways to Ease Back Pain Naturally

    Andrey_Popov / Shutterstock.com Back pain can be debilitating, and it’s also quite prevalent. In 2019, 39% of adults had back pain, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Certain demographics in America are more likely to experience this pain, like adults aged 65 and over...
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    7 European Countries That Are Easy to Retire To

    bodrumsurf / Shutterstock.com When it comes to moving overseas, the ability to acquire long-term residency is one of the first considerations you need to make. Will the country allow you to stay past your tourist visa? For how long? What are the requirements? In Europe, many countries make it...
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    12 Portuguese Phrases to Impress the Locals

    Matyas Rehak / Shutterstock.com “Bom dia” (good day) … “boa tarde” (good afternoon) … “boa noite” (good night) were the first Portuguese phrases I learned before my inaugural visit to Portugal in 1979. The flight attendant added “voce fala ingles?” (you speak English?) and “onde esta a casa de...
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    Scientists Declare That Climate Change is Beyond The Point of No Return

    nicostock / Shutterstock.com Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. The world has crossed a critical line. According to the University of Exeter’s Global...
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    Medicare Home Health Cuts Could Cost You Thousands Next Year

    https://www.shutterstock.com/g/PeopleImages-Yuri+A / Shutterstock.com Medicare’s home health benefit has been a financial lifeline for millions of Americans, letting them receive skilled nursing care, physical therapy, and other medical services right in their living rooms instead of expensive...
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    The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators

    Environmentalists worry about pollinating species in the pivotal desert borderland as more tall barriers are planned by the U.S. government to curb migration and trafficking. By Tina Deines It was a balmy day in Del Rio, a Texas border town about 170 miles west of San Antonio, when a citizen...
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    EPA’s ‘Comeback’ a Sham Fueled by Trump’s Authoritarian Power Grab, Critics Charge

    The agency replaced civil servants with Trump loyalists and has failed to correct scientific integrity violations and a flawed cancer risk assessment of a popular pesticide during Trump’s first term, watchdog groups say. By Liza Gross Federal environmental scientists have been “left largely...
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    Climate Change Comes for the House of the Seven Gables

    At the edge of Salem’s harbor, caretakers face a race against rising seas and intensifying storms to protect a landmark bound up in America’s literary and colonial past. By Ryan Krugman SALEM, Mass.—Paul Wright leans over a 17th-century granite barrier and points at a faint watermark depicting...
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    How to Save on Yard Skeletons for Halloween This Year

    Kosoff / Shutterstock.com Ah, it’s that time of year again. The weather is starting to cool, the leaves are beginning to change color and your neighbor just took out their 12-foot tall yard skeleton. Wait — does one thing on that list seem out of place? If you’re anything like many Americans...
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    5 Surprising Uses for OxiClean Around the House

    TonelsonProductions / Shutterstock.com When you think of OxiClean, do you envision fresh, clean-smelling and stain-free laundry? That is, if you even have time to stop and daydream about clean laundry when a million other items in the house need to be cleaned. Oxygen bleach, which is best known...
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    The Best Time to Establish Residency Overseas and Get a Second Citizenship

    Jirus Malawong / Shutterstock.com I have a friend who is working on his Plan C. Hank already has a second residency that is leading to a second citizenship. Now he has established residency in a third country to take advantage of the short timeframe that country requires for one to be married...
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    4 Surprising Health Benefits of Getting Flu Shots

    Inside Creative House / Shutterstock.com Millions of Americans prepare for flu season by getting or scheduling their annual flu vaccination. And while the vaccine has a longstanding reputation for combatting the influenza virus, the shot may have other important benefits that can boost your...
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    Baby Boomers Are Flocking to This Florida Town — but Not for the Weather

    aphotostory / Shutterstock.com Florida has a well-established reputation as the state for whiling away one’s golden years, but now one town is attracting a younger crowd too — millennials. Zonda recently released its latest annual Baby Chaser Index, and Orlando jumped from its No. 3 spot last...
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    Expats Reveal What Everyday Life in Spain Is Like

    Jose Miguel Sanchez / Shutterstock.com A couple years ago, I took a whirlwind scouting tour of Spain. Between two trips, I drove nearly the entire way across the country, from the French border to Plasencia, not far from the Portuguese border. While there, I became addicted to the typical...

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