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How to Cool Down a City

Singapore’s prime minister has described climate change as “life and death.” He has reason to worry: Stifling temperatures and humidity already last all year, and the city-state has warmed at twice the global average over the past six decades. Heat like this isn’t just uncomfortable. It can cause chronic illness and death, including heat exhaustion,

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Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl

For the past two and a half years, Oregon has been trying an unusual experiment to stem soaring rates of addiction and overdose deaths. People caught with small amounts of illicit drugs for “personal use,” including fentanyl and methamphetamine, are fined just $100 — a sanction that can be waived if they participate in a

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Archaeologists Find Maya City in an ‘Empty Zone’ of the Yucatán Map

Armed with machetes and chain-saws, hacking through fallen trees and wading through dense scrub, the archaeologists cleared a path down rocky trails. At last, they reached their destination in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula: a hidden city where pyramids and palaces rose above crowds over 1,000 years ago, with a ball court and terraces now buried and

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Why Does Every Women’s World Cup City Have Two Names?

When soccer fans land in New Zealand this month ahead of the Women’s World Cup, they may find themselves welcomed not to Auckland or Wellington, but to “Tāmaki Makaurau” (“Tah-mah-key Ma-kow-row”) or “Te Whanganui-a-Tara” (“Tay Fung-a-noo-ee a Tah-rah”). Those names — what the cities are called in the country’s Indigenous language, te reo Māori —

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Health

Get Covid Remedies in New York Metropolis

  Covid-19 therapies are extensively obtainable to at-risk New Yorkers, however many who may gain advantage from them might not even bear in mind they exist. One such therapy, an antiviral medication referred to as Paxlovid, may be very efficient, stated Dr. Ted Lengthy, the pinnacle of New York Metropolis’s Check and Hint Corps, a

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