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CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, left, and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, in 2023 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Their mission to go around the moon has been delayed until at least April, 2026.

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  • Science

NASA delays Artemis II human moon mission once again as it wraps up heat shield investigation

The mission to take four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back, previously targeting a launch at the end of 2025, has been delayed until at least April, 2026.

December 06, 2024
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  • Brendan Byrne
Jared Isaacman at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, earlier this year. The billionaire astronaut with close ties to SpaceX has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to run NASA.

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  • Politics

Trump chooses billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA

Earlier this year, Isaacman became the first private citizen to conduct a spacewalk. But his longstanding ties with Elon Musk's company SpaceX raise possible conflicts of interest.

December 05, 2024
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Research about the degenerative brain disease known as CTE in athletes has largely focused on American football. But a new study of ice hockey players has found a link between the length of a player's career and their risk of developing the condition.

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  • Sports

Longer careers in ice hockey are linked to a greater risk of CTE, a new study finds

A new Boston University study of 77 deceased male ice hockey players found that their chances of developing the degenerative brain disease known as CTE increased with each year they played the sport.

December 05, 2024
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  • Becky Sullivan
South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul speaks during a plenary of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024.

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  • World

Negotiators fail to reach an agreement on a plastic pollution treaty. Talks to resume next year

The negotiations in Busan, South Korea, were supposed to be the fifth and final round to produce the first legally binding treaty on plastics pollution, including in the oceans, by the end of 2024.

December 02, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The Peace Palace housing the World Court, or International Court of Justice, is reflected in a monument in The Hague, Netherlands.

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  • World

A landmark climate change case will open at the top U.N. court

The hearings come after years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters,

December 02, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
New York City is spectacular at sunrise.  From the wildest corners of Central Park, the city is framed by forests, the sound of traffic and sirens softened by the murmur of mountain streams and geese lifting off from lakes.

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  • National

Reporter Journal: A sunrise trek through wild solitude in New York City

New York City is home to more than eight million people but NPR's Brian Mann mapped out an urban hike through solitude and parkland wildness.

December 01, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
This image released by the U.S. Coast Guard, shows Connie the container dog, which was found trapped inside a shipping container on  Jan. 31, 2024.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: The life and work of Seuk Kim, pilot and animal rescuer

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Seuk Kim, a volunteer animal rescue pilot who died in a crash earlier this week, transporting several dogs.

December 01, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
This picture taken on December 7, 2016 shows Christmas trees in a display room of Sun Xudan's artificial Christmas tree factory in Yiwu.

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  • Environment

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, which is more sustainable: real or plasticky?

It's time to discuss one of the perennial debates of the holiday season. Are real Christmas trees or their fake counterparts more eco-friendly?

November 29, 2024
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  • Alina Hartounian
Indigenous women of Amazonia speak to the media at a press conference during United Nations Climate Change Conference COP29.

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  • Climate

Disappointed by this year's climate talks, Indigenous advocates look to Brazil in 2025

Indigenous advocates called the final agreement in Azerbaijan "drastically insufficient." Now they're focusing on next year's global climate summit in Brazil where Indigenous participation is expected to be historic.

November 29, 2024
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  • Nate Perez
Vito the pug and handler Michael Scott are presented with Best in Show honors at the 2024 National Dog Show.

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  • National

Vito the pug is the first of his breed to win National Dog Show's top prize

Vito, a pug from Chapel Hill, N.C., beat out more than 1,900 dogs representing more than 200 breeds and varieties that competed in this year's event.

November 28, 2024
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  • Jackie Northam
Handlers show their hounds during the National Dog Show in 2022 in Oaks, Pennsylvania.

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  • Television

The National Dog Show explained: How a dog contest became a Thanksgiving tradition

Football isn't the only thing Americans like to watch on Thanksgiving. The National Dog Show continues its decades-long run, this time with a brand new breed. Here's what to know and how to watch.

November 27, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Researchers used fossilized poos, known scientifically as coprolites, to learn more about how dinosaurs came to rule the Earth.

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  • Science

Over 500 fossilized poops show how dinosaurs came to rule the Earth

Researchers reconstructed the Triassic food web using nothing but scat.

November 27, 2024
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Amelia Earhart stands next to her Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu. Her disappearance remains one of aviation's biggest mysteries.

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  • National

Ocean explorers hoped they photographed Amelia Earhart's plane. Turns out it's a rock

Earhart, her navigator and their plane disappeared during their attempted 1937 circumnavigation of the globe. A deep sea exploration company thought it might have solved the mystery, but it lives on.

November 25, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Rescuers rope off an area around a dead pilot whale that was stranded on Ruakākā Beach in northland, New Zealand on Sunday.

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  • World

New Zealanders help save about 30 whales after a pod strands on a beach

New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot. It's often not clear why they happen but the island nation's geography is believed to be a factor.

November 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A plastic bottle and the remains of a child's spade on the beach in Prestatyn, U.K..

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  • Climate

Plastic waste is everywhere. Countries have one more chance to agree on a solution

Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.

November 25, 2024
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  • Michael Copley
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