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  Can Biden’s climate bill undo the fossil fuel industry’s decades of harm?

  The Guardian - Oliver Milman

  The scientists’ warning to the US president on climate crisis was stark: the world’s countries were conducting a vast, dangerous experiment through their enormous release of planet-heating emissions, which threaten to be “deleterious from the point of view of human beings”. Some sort of remedial …

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  Soaring EV demand pushes lithium market to double by 2030, according to new report

  Electrek - Peter Johnson

  According to new forecasts, the lithium market is expected to double by 2030 as soaring EV demand accelerates. Is it finally happening? Did we reach the threshold for mass EV adoption? Several legacy automakers are reporting staggering growth in EV sales. In fact, some are having a hard time keeping …

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  New program gives hope to victims and families battling dementia

  CBS News - By Amanda Starrantino

  SAN FRANCISCO -- There is a measure of new hope for victims and families battling the devastating effects Alzheimer's and related dementias. New …

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  UK drought: What should we do to protect ourselves from future water shortages? A scientist explains

  sciencefocus.com - Jason Goodyer

  We speak to Prof Kevin Hiscock, an environmental scientist from the University of East Anglia, about the growing issue of depleting water resources …

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  Russia's war in Ukraine pushes Ukrainian steel production to the brink

  NPR - Jason Beaubien

  ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — In this eastern Ukrainian city, a Soviet-era mural stands boldly in front of Zaporizhstal iron and steel works. The mural shows muscular ironworkers handing a freshly forged sword to equally muscular soldiers who are rushing off to war. Today, however, Ukraine's iron industry …

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  'Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie on a ventilator following attack, suspect arrested and charged

  USA TODAY - Mary Cadden , Jennifer McClellan

  CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. – Salman Rushdie, the USA TODAY bestselling author whose writing has previously led to death threats, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, suffering stab wounds to the neck and abdomen. Rushdie's agent, Andrew Wylie …