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Shrinking Rhinos.

ION correspondentJanuary 10, 2023January 10, 2023

November 4, 2022 by Sam Illingworth. Coveted curvesmarch into view,pointed tusks ofprotein given artificialweight by greedand sportand lust.Captured portraitsposition polygonsacross the screen,centuries of colourthat ageand wasteand bleed;shifting perspectivescaptured in blackand whiteto...

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Atmospheric River Lashes California.

ION correspondentJanuary 9, 2023January 9, 2023

January 4, 2023.. Just four days after heavy rain hit California, the state was drenched with another atmospheric river on January 4 and 5, 2023. A plume of moisture from the...

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Floodwater Inundates North-Central California.

ION correspondentJanuary 5, 2023January 5, 2023

December 16, 2022 to January 1, 2023. Heavy rain hit parts of central and northern California on New Year’s Eve 2022, flooding communities near San Francisco and Sacramento. Water...

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Racing to Mine Lithium.

ION correspondentJanuary 3, 2023January 3, 2023

December 8, 2022. Exploding white dwarf stars are thought to be the ultimate source of much of our solar system’s lithium. But on Earth, there are certain environments where the soft, light,...

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ITER, FRANCE. Nuclear Fusion for Clean Energy. The year that was. Headlines and a shared Ideal.

Deepak BoraJanuary 2, 2023January 2, 2023

In the very last days of the year 2021, the European JET, the largest of all operating tokamaks, achieved a first-ever sustained, high-confinement plasma and practically doubled its 1997 energy production...

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Scientists Are Unravelling The Mystery Of The Arrow Of Time.

Deepak BoraJanuary 1, 2023February 26, 2025

August 24, 2022. City University of New York (CUNY). The flow of time from the past to the future is a central feature of how we experience the world....

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Montreal Islands.

ION correspondentJanuary 1, 2023January 1, 2023

Today’s Image of the Day is part of a series highlighting wintertime photographs of Earth shot by astronauts on the International Space Station. The St. Lawrence River cuts across...

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Blizzard Conditions in the U.S. Northeast.

ION correspondentDecember 28, 2022December 28, 2022

A powerful Arctic cold front battered the Midwest and eastern U.S. in late-December 2022. The storm brought blizzard conditions to some areas, life-threatening cold to others, and daunting amounts...

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Dust and Salt in South America.

Deepak BoraDecember 28, 2022December 28, 2022

. Mar Chiquita in central Argentina is a shallow, salty, and variable lake. When the water level is high, the lake covers as much as 6,000 square kilometers (2,300...

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Rays of Hope.

ION correspondentDecember 27, 2022December 27, 2022

November 18, 2022. By Sam Illingworth Diamond discscut the waves,spiralled finssplitting surfwith graceful sizeand measured ease.Submerged,shifted,subdued.Tracing historieswith photographs,each exposurea pinpoint;patterns of lifeagainst the safeand unmolested seas. This poem is inspired by recent...