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A woman on the Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower as temperatures rise in Paris during a second heatwave affecting a large part of France

France restricts public drinking as Europe swelters under a ‘heat-dome driven furnace’ for the second time in two months

CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe is sweltering under its second heat dome in two months, with temperatures spiking above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, bringing dangerous conditions across swaths of the planet’s fastest-warming continent. France banned public alcohol consumption, Spain closed a World Cup fan zone and the UK is bracing for an annihilation

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A woman on the Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower as temperatures rise in Paris during a second heatwave affecting a large part of France

France restricts public drinking as Europe swelters under a ‘heat-dome driven furnace’ for the second time in two months

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe is sweltering under its second heat dome in two months, with temperatures spiking above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, bringing dangerous conditions across swaths of the planet’s fastest-warming continent. France banned public alcohol consumption, Spain closed a World Cup fan zone and the UK is bracing for an annihilation of

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An unusual strategy helps some tropical butterflies live 25 times longer than their relatives

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Since most butterflies live a short time, fluttering between colorful flowers for a few weeks before dying, a few rare exceptions have stumped scientists. Now, some long-lived tropical butterfly species are shedding light on the secrets of longevity. Butterflies belonging to the Heliconius genus, which inhabit the tropical rainforests

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Buoys used to gather data at the Ocean Observatories Initiative's Coastal Pioneer Array off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in 2021. The array has since moved to off the coast of North Carolina.

Trump administration ditches plan to close a critical ocean monitoring system after furious bipartisan backlash

By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical ocean monitoring system that provides vital information on the health of the world’s oceans, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress. The Ocean Observatories Initiative was established in 2016 and involves around 900 instruments across

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The Milky Way’s black hole is eerily quiet. Scientists have now found evidence of its missing wind

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have detected evidence of cosmic-scale wind coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, potentially solving one of the longest-standing mysteries in astronomy. Sagittarius A*, a gigantic black hole with the mass of about 4 million suns, has puzzled the scientific community

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Fossil skulls of three beaked whales recovered from the seafloor in the Diamantina Zone. The image shows two extinct beaked whale species (top two) as well as an extant species.

A submersible ride revealed a vast whale graveyard. And it holds more than just bones

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists who recently piloted a submersible to a remote spot in the southeastern Indian Ocean have identified one of the largest and deepest whale graveyards containing hundreds of fossils, including one representing a previously unknown species. But not everything in this deep-sea necropolis is dead. Tens of thousands of

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