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All of Lukoil’s major refineries in Russia are now offline after a Ukrainian drone strike halted crude processing at its NORSI plant on 26 August, Reuters reported the shutdown. NORSI is Russia’s fourth-largest refinery and second-largest gasoline producer. The latest attack produced the plant’s fifth drone-related shutdown in less thanContinue Reading

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Microplastics in waterways and soil are fueling calls to reduce the pervasiveness of plastic in agriculture. By Liza Gross Farmers have relied on plastic since the 1960s, when the mass production of affordable agricultural tools derived from petrochemicals made them widely accessible. Plastic mulch quickly became a cornerstone of cropContinue Reading

James Webb Space Telescope observes 72 stars and finds planet formation is a race against time

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(Main) An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist’s rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have studied 72 young, sun-like stars. As a result, they found that forming planets is a real race against time. ThisContinue Reading

Astronaut Jonny Kim leaves NASA, will return to active military duty

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Former NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim services an experimental carbon dioxide removal device aboard the International Space Station in May 2025. (Image credit: NASA/JSC) Jonny Kim is leaving NASA to continue his military career. The 42-year-old astronaut, who has one of the most jaw-dropping resumes of any person alive, is departingContinue Reading

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Notice anything different about me? I didn’t actually get taller while writing my new memoir. But I hope the stories I share (especially the stories about failure) will help us tackle our biggest problems and grow into a better nation. COMING UP SHORT out now in paperback. https://bit.ly/46nwUCcContinue Reading

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Trishuli in Nepal after a lake formed by a landslide on the Nepal-China border overflows, putting areas devastated by a flash flood two days ago at risk and forcing a temporary halt to rescue efforts, authorities on both sides said. Residents in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, on the border with China’sContinue Reading

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The devastating Bhotekoshi flood struck the mountainous Nepal-Tibet border region on Wednesday morning., At least 469 people have died, and at least 1,500 people remain missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet region after a glacial collapse sent a mountain of mud and rock into a Himalayan river, triggering catastrophic floodingContinue Reading